Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:Transit gates have populations in the thousands sometimes. They're big.
There's a big, open, central dock area into which ships pop into existence, then move off for the next incoming/outgoing transit. They come out only approximately in the formation then entered in, so they give each other plenty of room on the way in. The docks are vulnerable to invasion! You don't really get to refuse an incoming transit, so unless they give some indication of malicious intent (which would mean shutting the transit gate down for what might turn into months, costing the transit corporation untold millions or billions of Wulongs), the TTMs on duty are really the defense. In your case, it would be whoever's got possession of the gate now. If there was an invasion here, you might find that the "attackers" are underprepared and wound up with their ship in a stupid position and can't get its frames here in time, making them effectively defenders; or that the defenders of the transit gate aren't up to military discipline and had a lag in who was on watch.
Then there's the city, probably in a ring around it, that has streets, shops, police (usually, really TTM) stations, and houses. If it's a ring (and the entire gate isn't in zero G), there are elevators going "up" to the docks. It might have parks and avenues, but they're probably scaled down.
Then, of course, is the immediate exterior of the gate. The "ground" of a ring-shaped station opens up into space, so small craft or frames can take a "down" elevator to launch themselves in any direction within the plane of the ring. Depending on the point you are in the orbit, that could be anywhere between a different orbit, deep space, or straight into the ground. This might be a fun place for a house rule about losing orbit: one of the table edges is the upper stratosphere. Just like normal, when you hit that, the frame is lost. But from a range of 8-6 of that edge, you lose a white (or green) die before rolling. If that leaves you with no movement, you move 1 toward the edge. From 4-6, you lose two whites (or greens) before rolling. If that leaves you with no movement, you move 2 toward the edge. From 0-4 away from the edge, you lose three whites (or greens) before rolling. If that leaves you with no movement, you move 3 toward the edge. If in doubt about which level the frame is at, it's in the safer one. If you can figure out a way to do it fairly, you could designate one table corner that the frames move toward, rather than an edge, which means you could tweak things to get a speed boost from the gravity.
Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:(As for them retaking the gate, Zerorevenge, are you suggesting that they would never run away? They're not supernatural badasses who have regard for neither their lives nor their ability to return when they can win. Retaking a transit gate might be dangerous and hard, but sticking around when you're the last guy is 100% dangerous. That's why there's the Doomsday Clock.)
Dukayn wrote:Requesting some official art of transit gates for reference
spacemonkey wrote:Dukayn wrote:Requesting some official art of transit gates for reference
Seconded. I was really surprised when there wasn't a piece of artwork in the book for this when the final draft rolled out.
Zero Revenge wrote:spacemonkey wrote:Dukayn wrote:Requesting some official art of transit gates for reference
Seconded. I was really surprised when there wasn't a piece of artwork in the book for this when the final draft rolled out.
Thirded!
Dukayn wrote:Requesting some official art of transit gates for reference
Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:A future Component will talk about transit gates and other spacey stuff, though, don't worry!
Foghammer wrote:Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:A future Component will talk about transit gates and other spacey stuff, though, don't worry!
Supplementary material! Enterprising young designers such as yourselves should be able to manage that!
So are we looking at something like a series of in-depth cultural reviews (maybe some 32-page paperbacks) twice a year? Each one could be padded with "official" new frame cores...
What? ... What do you mean this isn't Hasbro?
mraichelson wrote:I'm getting my pre-orders in...
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