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The Aslan race is looking pretty cool these days...
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:21 am
by Treebore
Take a look at this cover Mongoose put on their recent issue of Signs and Portents.
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/ ... ?qsID=1717
I think you will have to DL it to see it.
If your a Babylon 5 fan you'll probably want to read the articles too.
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:56 pm
by sieg
I was pleasantly surprised by that cover. I'd expected some Aslani cheescake or something, but that was really well done. I assume the Lynx-ish one with no armor and the keypad is a female, as the activity is rather intellectual.
I'm not a huge fan of Mongoose, but I must admit their version of Traveller has been very faithful to the "First" (ie Classic Black Book) Traveller game I know and love.
Its just their prices are so steep. Granted they can't control international exchange rates; but ouch!
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Re: The Aslan race is looking pretty cool these days...
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:31 pm
by Sir Osis of Liver
Rakshasas in Republic Commando/Imperial Stormtrooper armor?! I'm more partial to the old depiction in the Hugh Hefner smoking jacket.
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:23 pm
by SoulCatcher78
Aaaaaaaaargh! Furries! Armored Furries at that.
Seriously though, pretty nice looking cover.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:05 am
by Sundog
I remember reading, some years ago, an interesting article about hairyness and hairlessness amongst intelligent tool-using creatures. The author felt that the domestication of fire would be the telling point.
Humans are by far the least hairy of all the hominoids. Even a hairy person is no hairier than the average chinese crested dog, which is pretty damn bald. The author suggested that we may have selected for hairlessness while we were getting used to using fire. After all, when getting used to the idea of using fire, and making fire, it's a sight more dangerous to use when your damn pelt gets in the way and keeps catching fire. Folks with thinner hair would have had an advantage (not getting badly burned so often, for instance), and over the generations more and more people would have been descended from progressively less-hairy ancestors, until today, you only have the minimum hair required. Inventing clothes, which is essentially just removable fur, was a stroke of genius that made getting hairless almost cost-free in evolutionary terms and alowed a far greater range of migration into truly inhospitable areas.
So, looking outwards now at aliens, if they ever got around to domesticating fire, would they have had the same problems? If that's so, how many hairies will there be out there?
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:33 pm
by Sir Ironside
SoulCatcher78 wrote:
Aaaaaaaaargh! Furries! Armored Furries at that.
Just like their seems to be a magazine for every subject, there seems to be a forum for every subject.
I mean wow. (The most respectful and non-judgmental wow, of course.)
Didn't read the whole forum so I do not know if the entire forum is work safe. Looks like it, but I can't guarantee it.
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:38 pm
by gideon_thorne
Sundog wrote:
I remember reading, some years ago, an interesting article about hairyness and hairlessness amongst intelligent tool-using creatures. The author felt that the domestication of fire would be the telling point.
Humans are by far the least hairy of all the hominoids. Even a hairy person is no hairier than the average chinese crested dog, which is pretty damn bald. The author suggested that we may have selected for hairlessness while we were getting used to using fire. After all, when getting used to the idea of using fire, and making fire, it's a sight more dangerous to use when your damn pelt gets in the way and keeps catching fire. Folks with thinner hair would have had an advantage (not getting badly burned so often, for instance), and over the generations more and more people would have been descended from progressively less-hairy ancestors, until today, you only have the minimum hair required. Inventing clothes, which is essentially just removable fur, was a stroke of genius that made getting hairless almost cost-free in evolutionary terms and alowed a far greater range of migration into truly inhospitable areas.
So, looking outwards now at aliens, if they ever got around to domesticating fire, would they have had the same problems? If that's so, how many hairies will there be out there?
Doesn't explain Wookies or Ewoks.
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