Timeline Timing
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:13 pm
I know there are the Knight's Hawk & Zebulon versions of colony and exploration events. Many people will be glad of these, though whether these fit in with the Star Frontiers Volturnus modules or each players own adventures is another matter.
What I am interested in finding out is: Does anyone think some of the timeline occurrences seem a bit too far apart?
Especially from an Alpha Dawn point of view. For example. Humans in the real world, with limited technology managed to spread to new "frontiers" and establish themselves in a relatively short period of time. For example U.S Colonial small holdings to multi story multi sprawling cities in a few hundred years or so.
In contrast the humans and aliens in SF-AD are already well advanced and can obviously travel vast distances across the stars within days. How long would it take them to colonize worlds? Many in Alpha Dawn still unexplored and unsettled.
Apparently some colonies have been established for over 400 years yet the original Star Frontiers is based on exactly that: The Frontier of explored space.
Personally, I am not happy with the "new" timeline. It contradicts a view that this is the back of beyond, freshly explored space. I can understand a hundred years or so of exporation at most. But more than that? When does the Frontier stop becoming the frontier and start to be an old, established sector?
But this is just my own imperfect opinion. Our own adventures have probably split timelines into many different paths!
Does it really matter anyway? Probably not.
What do you think?
What I am interested in finding out is: Does anyone think some of the timeline occurrences seem a bit too far apart?
Especially from an Alpha Dawn point of view. For example. Humans in the real world, with limited technology managed to spread to new "frontiers" and establish themselves in a relatively short period of time. For example U.S Colonial small holdings to multi story multi sprawling cities in a few hundred years or so.
In contrast the humans and aliens in SF-AD are already well advanced and can obviously travel vast distances across the stars within days. How long would it take them to colonize worlds? Many in Alpha Dawn still unexplored and unsettled.
Apparently some colonies have been established for over 400 years yet the original Star Frontiers is based on exactly that: The Frontier of explored space.
Personally, I am not happy with the "new" timeline. It contradicts a view that this is the back of beyond, freshly explored space. I can understand a hundred years or so of exporation at most. But more than that? When does the Frontier stop becoming the frontier and start to be an old, established sector?
But this is just my own imperfect opinion. Our own adventures have probably split timelines into many different paths!
Does it really matter anyway? Probably not.
What do you think?