There are a variety of divination spells and psionic abilities that would let you scout the area without actually being present. * Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.Įrmmmm.Magic 8-balls says a mighty "Maybe" on that one. * All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. Sure it might be possible with enough effort but it would be pretty difficult.Īuthor of Rifts: Deep Frontier (Rifter 70)Īuthor of Rifts:Scandinavia (current project) so you'd have to teleport to outside them, which brings us back to "arriving in a hostile environment and hoping to find your way somewhere safe without being shot" and even if you use telescopes to locate the stations in the night sky, plot their orbits, you'd need some sort of info on their internal layout and organization to be able to teleport to the inside of them. but virtually no one on earth has been to the orbital stations, or the moon. useful for going somewhere you've already been or can find some fairly accurate recon on. This is especially true when you consider that most teleport abilities require the person teleporting to know where they are going, in the "visualizing the target location" kind of way. It is our job to see that it stays there." -George Orwell "That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. When Laika learned of their unusual abilities, they asked the PCs to go on a mission for them.Īnnual Best Poster of the Year Awards (2012) The PCs got to shoot it out with killer satellites, then get to an escape pod just before the shuttle was destroyed.Īnd then were picked up by one of the Orbital Communities (Laika, I think) who had detected their shuttle and was curious to grab survivors to pump for information about Earth. The PCs agreed, and Cyberworks' massively-armored, heavily-gunned shuttle eventually launched! This time, Cyberworks was the corporation trying, and they wanted mercs with unusual abilities to be in the crew, as a wild-card that might help their chances. Other companies and nations had tried, but their rockets always got destroyed for unknown reasons. I ran an adventure where the PCs were recruited to ride shotgun during a new attempt at getting into orbit. The Orbitals just like to maintain the killsat net to burn rifted critters coming from the direction of Earth, and to keep them from pointing said killsats at each other. You could theoretically Rift/Teleport yourself into Orbit. Id just say, "Dimensional Shearing and other high-PPE magic-shenanigans make achieving orbit impossible similarly, orbitals cant land on earth" and leave it be.Įarth is cut off from the rest of its Galaxy/Universe because MacGuffin. Im loving the Foes list it's the only thing keeping me from tearing out my eyes from the dumb. Just pretend it doesn't exist.Įven Archie was only able to get through the interference around the planet and contact a single Cyberworks satellite by using advanced Mechanoid technology he acquired. Without the GM deliberately making it a feature of the campaign, Rifts Earth is basically effectively cut off from its own universe/galaxy. Hope beyond hope the locals dont riddle you with gunfire the moment you appear. Without pre-knowledge of the conditions of space, you're likely to end up somewhere lethal.Įven if you somehow manage to appear in a place where you're not just going to die and/or eventually die (if you're suited up in your EBA, you're cool! until you run out of air.), like on a station. Its well within the range of Teleport: Superior and any Shifter could open a Rift to someplace in outer space. When i say "good luck" teleporting yourself into Orbit.
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