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Mekton history and overlap with Cyberpunk

I picked up this expansion to mekton at GenCon and it had interesting artwork. I was looking to get the Mekton II sourcebook. Then I found out the interesting history for this game and its interrelationship with Cyberpunk.

• Mekton history

The Panic Table: Mothership live play

A whole series.

I saw them at Gen Con. Was pretty hilarious, beep boop beep. Hoping they release the video for that.

Gen Con 2025

• Eclipse Phase: Binge
  Thursday 14:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT
  Saturday 18:00 EDT - 22:00 EDT
  
  An investigation into missing people and a lost drug stash on Mars leads to the unexpected.
  
  

 Jake Carter

Espada

Romeo

Mardones

Eclipse Phase Live

I really like the speed that this referee can answer questions and add ideas.

• eclipse phase actual play

Anti-technology aspect of Star Wars

Eclipse Phase Character Pack Miniatures

game crafter

Jay Omega Radio Station

Neat to see Jay Omega is still broadcasting: kfjc

Con of the North 2026

Proposed events

Stoneburner: Prospecting The Fordømte Asteroid Chain
Friday from 14:00 to 17:00

Enlist as a new company of dwarven space miners, who are explorasteroid tunnels to bring prosperity back to their dwarven clans. You've inherited the mining permits to the Fordømte chain, staking claim to the supposedly rich resources. You all scoffed that the rumors of the supposedly lifeless rocks may instead be occupied by strange beings or be constantly surveilled by intelligent, perhaps, unwelcoming creatures. After all, you have dwarven wit and bravery, you'll be fine!
System: Stoneburner RPG

• search: layout of mine map
• search: u of mn libraries

Eclipse Phase: Grinder
Friday from 18:00 to 22:00

Eclipse Phase is a science fiction horror role-playing game with transhumanist themes. Living in the asteroid belt, post-fall groups of humanity struggle to survive against the threats of AI, viruses, competing groups and space itself. In Grinder, your team's detection and protection force, Firewall, tracked an exsurgent package to a commercial sector on Extropia. Now the characters must intercept it before it infects thousands.
System: Eclipse Phase, 2nd Edition

Bubblegum Crisis: Cryptocurrents
Saturday from 10:00 to 13:50

It's the start of 2026 and Sylia Stingray once again contacts your robotics club at the University of Minnesota. This time there is a hidden force stealing funds and crosswiring the midwest econoscape into one horrendous mess. Can you help her go undercover, undercurrents, underwater, to help stop and reverse the econocrisis?!
System: Bubblegum Crisis: AD Police Before and After

Spaceballs III: The Return of the Schmedi
Saturday from 14:00 to 17:50

Using WEG d6 Star Wars rules, return to the further adventures of Lone Starr, Barf, Vespa, and Dot Matrix, and several new dolls<<<delete<<< in-game characters. Can the heroes escape the clutches of the new pastiched space godfather, defeat the re-elected president Scrooge's diabolical new strategy to conquer the Peaceful planets, and ensure Barf can complete a special mission for his pups?
System: West End Games Star Wars Role Playing Game

Aetherium Skirmish: Introduction
Sunday from 08:00 to 09:50

Aetherium is a skirmish level miniatures board game set in a cyber-mindscape where the world changes with the will of the players. Enter the Aetherium - a world between worlds, a place capable of containing the human mind, a place of infinite possibility, a place that is no place at all. Assemble your collective of hackers, agents, activists, or anarchists and lead them on a hyper-fast run through a dangerous virtual reality.
System: Aetherium Board Game

Traveller: The Dingir Zone
Sunday from 10:00 to 14:50

Over the past two decades, the systems between the Vegan Autonomous District and the Solomani Confederation have been changing their economic and political allegiances to the Confederation. SolSec suggest your team is the best force to drive Dingir system to Solomani Allegience. If you succeed, not just the system, but the whole subsector might be subverted to the Confederation.
System: Mongoose Traveller, 2022 Edition

Spaceballs using Star Wars WEG

• WEG Book Collection
• Spaceballs rules
• Spaceballs cast

My Cosmos is Mine

Love the guy losing his mind at the beginning.

Eclipse Phase Second Edition Character

Found this character builder online:

• link here

Free RPG Day: The Thule Pact

You are an agent of firewall, helping to defend humanity from exurgent threats. You may have your consciousness - ego - loaded into a morph that could be mechanical, biological, or informational. Can you solve the mystery of station Thule, why it went dark, where are the experimental biopods, who changed the access codes, and who broke the coffee machine?

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Map of Saturn system from eclipsephasemaps

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Map of Titan from eclipsephasemaps

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Map of Nyhavn from Robert Altauer at artstation

Space elevators on Titan

Mayday 2025

• Beyond Signal GK
  Saturday, April 26 from 7:00 pm to 10:50 pm
  
  This adventure takes plays after the classic Traveller Adventure, Signal GK. Travel with Baldwin Wei, fellow SOLSEC officer to re-establish an employment opportunity for a smuggled cryptoanalysis / scientist back in the Solomani Confederation
  System: Mongoose MgT2 2022

Baldwin Wei

Dr. Rushorin

Tools for Traveller RPG

Elections 2025

• State Superintendent Of Public Instruction - Underly and Kinser Milwaukee Sentinel Journal Underly website
• Justice Of The Supreme Court - Crawford website Elon's pusher
• Saint Croix County Circuit Court Judge Branch 2 - Heather Amos Smested DWI forum
• Roberts Village President - Peter Tharp's Roberts Ordinance Case
• Trustees - Mary Shemon Brian 'Flip' Tremblay Janelle Beal
• Saint Croix Central School District School Board Member - Nathan Stork Jeff Redmon Dave Roos
• Referendum - milwaukee Sentinel Journal

Con of the North 2025

• Night Witches: The Bell Machine (Die Klingelmaschine)
  Friday from 15:00 to 18:50
  
  Night Witches: a World War II German nickname for the all-female Soviet military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. They used the stealth of flying at midnight to cause destruction from their Polikarpov Po-2s. In this scenario their moniker may become all-too-true as they struggle against the fantastical and occult technology of the Germans. Aviation General Alexander Novikov will deny any references to the Philadelphia Experiment or the Final Countdown were used. Pregens provided.
  System: Cepheus Engine - Modern War - Airstrike
• Solomani Rim: The Subversion of Ludmilla
  Friday from 20:00 to 23:50
  
  The Vegan Autonomous district has long-sought to reassociate with the neighboring systems lost during the Solomani Rim War. Thanks to decades of pharmaceuticals and military supplies provided by Solomani Confederation associated megacorporations, the Vegans are looking to take the next steps in their growth strategy to higher gravity, Vegan-sphere systems. A diverse team of Vegans and Solomani agents are tasked with the revolt of Ludmilla and other systems from the Imperium. Pregens provided.
  Mongoose Traveler 2nd Edition
• Caprice Highport Escort Fighters: Headhunter
  Saturday from 08:00 to 11:50
  
  Starships need escorts sometimes, even in the elite space of the Solomani Confederation. Caprice Highport Escort Fighters (CHEFs) are a team of professional pilots and professional security agents who excel at police security, robot navy destruction. The player characters are hired to "proactively escort" a scientist of great stature and deliver them safely to a hidden research base, in order to aid with a vital research project for the megacorp. Pregens will be provided.
  Mongoose Traveler 2nd Edition
• Caprice Highport Escort Fighters: On to Ochre
  Saturday from 13:00 to 16:50
  
  Starships need escorts sometimes, even in the elite space of the Solomani Confederation. Caprice Highport Escort Fighters (CHeFs) are a team of professional fighters ready to help merchants get their goods to market, couriers get their mail on time, and yachts avoid seeing anyone cross their path. Now you are escorting an individual of importance past Smade's Planet. Are your Vargr ready for a dogfight? Pregens will be provided.
  Mongoose Traveler 2nd Edition

Physics of Space:1999

According to this, is just isn't possible:

• The Science Of Breakaway - an analysis of the initial energy and theoretical sources.
• Science Of Fiction - the velocity of Alpha.