I'm Not Dead Yet...

See?  I'm still workin'!

I was hoping to make the announcement today that I was officially back on-line, but alas, it is not meant to be.  After two weeks living in our new home, we still lack phone and Internet.  It will take some razzle-dazzle, along the lines of running a line from my in-laws to our new place so that we all share the same line.  Chalk it up to the banes of rural living.

I am still working, however.  I currently have a new spaceplane from Brazil in the pipeline for September (the Vesperedes) and, after much effort and experimentation, we will officially make our first IPV available to you RocketFans who are looking forward to making the long trip to Mars.  This PDF will have the supplemental rules for interplanetary craft and the general info on what such trips are like, as well as the deck plans for the specific IPV in question.  It will be awesome.

Anyway, I will hopefully have reliable Internet permanent-like by this time next week.  Wish me luck, RocketFans, and enjoy!

Star Turtle Officially on Sale!

         Thanks to hard work, late nights, and support from the family, I've been able to get this month's PDF out on time!  I can't tell you all how pleased I am with the new layout.  Thanks to Obsidion Dawn's awesome tech brushes for GIMP, I've been able to really improve on the general look of the book and make something I can truly be proud of.

I love the new look!

          This will probably be the last update for a bit, as well.  As you already know, we're moving, and we've reached a point where we'll be doing all of the furniture and heavy stuff this weekend.  With luck and back-breaking donkey labor, we'll be sleeping in our new house Sunday night.  At some point, the computer will be packed and moved, then at some future point unpacked and set up.  That's about as precise as I can get right now.
          I'm planning on getting some nifties put up on either the OpenD6 Forum or D6Universe soon (or both), and I will be doing an interview for the Cinema6 Blog at some point as well.  The nifties will include stats for the stuff I showed off a few weeks ago, and stats on some of the auxiliary vehicles mentioned in the Star Turtle PDF.

 That's it for now, RocketFans.  Enjoy!

New Polity: The Southern Territories

         By popular demand (and logical argument), I am featuring a brief notation on a new polity in the Black Desert setting:  The Southern Territories.
        
         The Southern Territories are featured in August's PDF, Ships of the Black Desert:  The "Star Turtle" and are made up of Antarctica, Australia, and New Zealand.  The polity is a minor power, whose main concern is the Chinese Alliance to the North, which constantly threatens to absorb the Territories in their bid to become a mega-state.  The deserts of the Territories' Australian Outback is home to the largest enclave of Native Martians on Terra, whom are sponsored by the Consensus. The Martians are experimenting with terraforming the charred Earth's surface using their bio-synergistic techniques.  Antarctica is home to a booming business in DNA harvesting of extinct plants and animals under the now much thinner ice sheets.  These "new" DNA strains are revolutionizing bio-diversity trading throughout the Inner System. 

       That's all I've got so far; suggestions are welcome.  BTW, it's looking good for the PDF to come out on time, August 1st.

       Enjoy, RocketFans!