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Frontier Fiction PDF “Vrusk Headace” AD MAGNETIC COUNTERS Issue Issue TABLE OF CONTENTS BACKGROUND MATERIAL ...................................... 3 ON THE COVER: The cover is courtesy of AZ_Gamer. FEDERATION OR ALLIANCE ..............................................3 Check out his artwork throughout the WHICH IS MORE PROBABLE? ..........................................3 StarFrontiersman and at WHAT ABOUT THE HOME WORLDS? .................................3 http://www.titanrising.webs.com/ PAN GALACTIC CORPORATION: BEAUTY OR THE BEAST? .......4 VOIDLINGS ..................................................................4 OTHER ART CREDITS: ADVENTURE! ......................................................... 8 » Artist credit on images ON THE ROCKS.............................................................8 INDENTURED SERVANTS ...............................................15 YAZIRIAN FILES .................................................... 16 BROTHER FLIT-TAIL .....................................................16 FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ......................................17 HUMOR ............................................................... 20 FOREWORD COMMUNITY NEWS ............................................ 21 This issue you will see that we have a rather large Creature STAR FRONTIERS AND SPACE ELITISM ..............................21 section. Many have traveled across the Frontier to bring back CHARACTER RACES .............................................. 22 the knowledge of strange and wonderous beasts. Some are dangerous and some could be considered pets. Just remember ADRAINIAN ................................................................22 to feed them and love them if you decide to take one home. HUNDE .....................................................................25 CREATIVE REFEREEING ......................................... 27 A warning also about the Frontier Fiction PDF “Vrusk Headace” AD MAGNETIC COUNTERS............................................27 in the zip file with this issue. It is not necessarily for our younger NOT PAYING ATTENTION CHART ....................................27 readers. Please keep that in mind. CREATURES OF THE FRONTIER ............................. 29 I have also enlarged the font a point to accomidate all of the AN ALIENS BEST FRIEND ...............................................29 feedback from Issue 18. FLORA AND FAUNA OF LACO .........................................38 DWARTZERT ..............................................................40 EQUIPMENT ........................................................ 41 ENERGY BRACER .........................................................41 ELECTRO-GOGGLES .....................................................41 HOLO-WALL PROJECTOR ..............................................42 ARPIS ......................................................................42 Raise your dice hand high! SPACE SHIPS ........................................................ 43 William Douglass [email protected] DAMAGE CONTROL-REPORT! ........................................43 KNIGHT HAWKS ................................................... 46 SF: 2KH "LIBERATION OF VOLTURNUS" ..........................46 CLASSIFIEDS! ....................................................... 52 STARFRONTIERSMAN #19 BACKGROUND MATERIAL I recently recovered three Star Frontiers articles written and So what’s the big deal? Easy,the Frontier is too new and the published on a fan site during the 1990’s. The site was the individual races too unique and independent to submit to work of Christian Walker and has been lost to us in the the authority of a Federation. Take the Vrusk for example. general internet as many of the old SF sites have ceased to In the Alpha Dawn rules Vrusk society is described as, function. Using an internet archive I found a “snap shot” of "organized around independent corporations. To a Vrusk, his site and decided his articles needed to be saved. the company he works for is his family and his nation. The The following brief articles are very insightful and still company determines everything about the Vrusk’s life" I relevant. could imagine a Vrusk company belonging to an alliance, but a federation never. -Jedion 357 In addition, while the home world governments of the individual races are not explored in great detail I could not Federation or Alliance imagine them giving up their colonies to part of a Which is More Probable? federation. I think they would hold onto their land tenaciously, but would still be willing to contribute goods By Christian Walker and materials to communal defense efforts. Had I written the Star frontiers background, I would have made a few subtle changes. One could argue that they are mostly concerned with semantics, but I feel that even What about the Home worlds? subtle changes of language greatly influence the tone of the By Christian Walker setting. In the introduction to the game the author writes, "As the danger increased the Humans, Dralasites, Vrusk and From the Alpha Dawn rules: "The three races met in a large Yazirians formed the United Planetary Federation (UPF) to area of space known as the Frontier. There they also defend their worlds." Later we find another reference to discovered the Yazirians, a race of tall, maned humanoids. the UPF when "The UPF created the Star Law Rangers, an Soon settled worlds in the Frontier became melting pots for interstellar police force, to track the Sathar’s agents from the four races, with dazzling mixtures of architecture and planet to planet and fight them on their own terms." alien cultures." In my mind, the organization formed by the Frontier worlds I haven’t been married long, but what I do know is that would be better described as an Alliance. For support I turn relationships take a lot of work and there can be some very to the extremely well written GURPS Space, an invaluable bumpy roads along the way. What I always felt was missing sourcebook for science-fiction campaign that draws upon a from the mix was animosities among the races due to racial wealth of fiction and scientific theory for ideas. bias and the political agendas of their home worlds. The races of the Frontier seem to have melded together quite In GURPS Space we find the following definition of Alliance: well, which I feel is too bad in a way. Sure, we like to get "An alliance is a group of autonomous worlds. Its key along with people around us, but this is a game and it does feature is that its members are genuinely self-governing. not do justice to some classic themes of sci-fi literature. The alliance controls only interstellar policy - primarily What if the Yazirians resented the intrusion of the other defense policy and foreign relations - and not any member’s races and were hostile? Sure that hostility may have faded domestic affairs." The article adds that, "There will be an over time, but some still might linger. What about the interstellar police force, usually called the Patrol." Humans and Vrusk? Many Humans loathe bugs and would The definition of Federation is different in some very crucial find the idea of a large walking one to be horrifying! areas. "Although federations and alliances share many features, they are different in basic philosophy. In an In addition, what are the agendas of the races’ home alliance, the individual member worlds dominate the worlds? Let’s take the vrusk, who had discovered space central government. In a federation, the opposite is true – travel first. They taught their technology to humanity and were pleased when humanity met them on the Frontier. the central government takes precedence over its But humans are driven to explore and settle and would not component worlds." stay in the Frontier for long. Might the vrusk home world fear the spread of humanity, likening it to some plague? How might the vrusk government seek to contain humanity without appearing too aggressive? PAGE Background Material 3 STARFRONTIERSMAN #19 the beginning Pan-Gal would have operated like this, but as On many worlds in the Frontier the various races have time progressed it would have developed a new imperative: settled in relative peace, giving rise to populations that see Make money any way we can and subvert those laws that their Frontier as their only home. After many years they would make us less profitable. might no longer see the home worlds of their ancestors as having any significance or authority at all. I remember an I think that a Pan-Gal that is insidious, bullying and out for episode of Robotech where a soldier says something to the its own interests makes for much more interesting science effect of, "Earth? I could care less about Earth. I was born in fiction. Couple this with the growth of other interstellar space." corps and you have about a billion opportunities for adventure dealing with the ugly underbelly of galactic How might the home worlds react to this? It could be a business. situation comparable to the American Revolution. The American colonies appreciated their English heritage but they did not see themselves as subjects and resented the Editor’s Note: Below you will find the 3rd Alex Stone article treatment given to them by the Crown. The English on the submitted to the StarFrontiersman. Previously in Issue#15 Alex other hand saw the colonies as their strategic and rightful brought us some insight into Traditional Dralasite Debate’s property and resented the insolence of the colonies. and in Issue #17, Ki’Kat-Tu Vrusk Master Magician. We look forward to hearing more reports from the famous reporter.
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