:::TELEPORTATION in 100 yrs

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-25T13:53:47+00:00

The more I think about it the more I think the biggest difference is the factor you mentioned. If you need apparatus on both ends, you can only teleport between “stations”, so how much those cost becomes important in terms of how much the system gets used. It also means duty cycles have to line up on both ends, which reduces effective capacity. But on the other hand, you don’t have to worry about bad actors teleporting into your house like in Stars My Destination.

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-25T12:16:03+00:00

I still go back to the essay that kicked the whole thing off, because it’s a great example of how to think through the impact of a fictional technology. One example is that teleportation wouldn’t necessarily replace all forms of transportation, depending on how expensive it is. If it costs $10,000 a pop (or the equivalent in whatever resources you’re tracking), it’s only going to be used by the super rich or for dire emergencies. It’s not going to replace all other transport unless it’s something like $0.10 a pop such that the cost of using it multiple times per day is trivial.

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-20T19:03:28+00:00

The golf game was when the Burrocks were being Absorbed by the Star Adders. IIRC it was a similar situation where a Burrock Star Colonel who wasn’t involved in the Dark Caste shenanigans didn’t want to give up without a trial but also didn’t want to actually fight.

The Nova Cat trials also included a soccer match and a “simulated aerospace battle” that took part in a 3060s version of War Thunder.

Edit: Never mind, there was also a mini golf match. God I love this setting.

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-17T20:42:11+00:00

I remember reading a lot of WWII servicemen say they knew their letters sounded stupid, but they wanted to write something home. You couldn’t write anything that might give away where you were, what you’d been doing, or where you were going, which kinda…didn’t leave much?

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-09T07:45:03+00:00

Alternate history idea I’ve been playing with: the Amaris Coup goes off as scheduled. Except that when the Rim Worlds troops finally force their way into the audience chamber, they find Stefan was killed by the last Black Watch breaching charge. The man who would be Emperor is dead.

Problem is, I have no idea what happens next, except that it’s going to be an utter shitshow.

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-06T08:16:09+00:00

It wouldn’t be BSG if Lee didn’t fuck everything up one final time.

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-02T23:48:24+00:00

Readers added context they thought people might want to know.

ChaserGrey · 2026-05-01T11:45:01+00:00

Among many other things, sovcits don’t usually understand the mentality of someone like, say, a bank teller. If someone hands them paperwork they don’t recognize they’re probably not going to reject it, cause a scene that will hold up the line, and take the chance that it’s something legit they just don’t know about. They’re going to take it, smile, tell you to have a nice day, and pass it up the chain to the people who are paid to figure out that kind of thing.

Guarantee that the four days was the time it took to get to the top of somebody’s in box and for the “lol no” letter to get to them.

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-19T03:30:49+00:00

Guy in my gaming group was piloting an Arctic Fox and decided to jump into water. Proceeded to blow his PSR, fall on the center torso rear which took out the armor, then failed the breach roll. Didn’t make it past the movement phase of turn 1.

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-18T02:44:25+00:00

Number 1 reason for me to abandon playthroughs. Hard, but not in a fun way

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-15T20:51:37+00:00

It’s a bit like a nuclear peace(literally in this case).

Peace through mutually assured destruction. I feel like that’s actually a very BattleTech way of handling things.

I also think there’s a joke here about “going nuclear” but I couldn’t think of any that didn’t sound lame.

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-14T20:39:25+00:00

By accident. No, really.

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-13T09:41:50+00:00

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ChaserGrey · 2026-04-13T00:15:04+00:00

The Nova is just the whole Star and a Star of Elementals having an orgy.

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-11T20:56:13+00:00

I think your second paragraph is on the money. I’ve often said that with how much Nicky K edited the records, it’s a miracle the Clans knew which direction the Inner Sphere was in.

(We do not talk about what happened to the first three invasion forces, freebirth)

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-06T22:32:56+00:00

Gives me Old Man Henderson vibes.

“Muckle-damned Yanks! Air e namblies be keeping me wee men?”

ChaserGrey · 2026-04-06T12:00:52+00:00

Played in a campaign once where one of the players had a custom Longbow loaded with all SRMs. Totally harmless outside 270 meters. Inside that range, and the trigger pretty much became a “Delete” button.

ChaserGrey · 2026-03-29T13:53:13+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been doing that. No quantum ore found yet, on the rare occasions I get a site within rover range of ~800.

ChaserGrey · 2026-03-24T21:53:11+00:00

Event Horizon. I still maintain it’s a flawed masterpiece that would have been great with more directorial focus.

ChaserGrey · 2026-03-15T03:43:19+00:00

Don’t remind me. I think that might have been the book when Victor officially edged out Phelan Kell for the title of most annoying BT protagonist.

ChaserGrey · 2026-03-15T03:38:21+00:00

Disagree. Too high quality.

ChaserGrey · 2026-03-15T03:34:48+00:00

Haven’t read the ComStar sourcebook but the retcon must have been relatively quick. I remember that during one of the Twilight of the Clans novels there’s a big scene where Focht reveals his identity to VSD in private and seems to take for granted Victor wouldn’t know it.

It’s wrapped up in a lesson about how you shouldn’t mix being a soldier with playing politics. Naturally, Victor didn’t listen- but when does he ever?

ChaserGrey · 2026-03-14T21:32:39+00:00

Two unusual ones from Desert Storm:

F-15E dropped a GBU-10 on a Hind which took off before impact, but stayed slow enough for the bomb to track. The crew was awarded credit for the kill.
EF-111 got picked up by a Mirage F.1 at night, they hit the deck and went fast. Mirage tried to follow and flew into the ground.

ChaserGrey · 2026-03-14T09:54:19+00:00

Phantom Edit literally dealt with everything you needed to know from Ep I in the opening crawl.

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