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You can find out all about it at the Kickstarter we are currently running for it! You can also check out the open playtest. I have been criminally negligent in updating this blog. Posthuman Studios is also up for the fan award for Best Publisher.

Some thoughts on our nominations:. The piece he did for us shows a transhuman fleeing into space from a derelict space station in orbit over a devastated Earth while a mechanical tentacle grabs them and pulls them back.

We were aiming for a sense of bleakness and loneliness here, and he nailed it spot on. Note that the cover wraps around front to back some pics of the book only show the front cover half.

You can see the full piece on the front page of our website. They all know transhumanism well, have intriguing ideas, and are fantastic wordsmiths. While Brian and I came up with the original concepts, Jack Graham and John Snead ran with those ideas and really succeeded in capturing the setting.

Lars Blumenstein knocked out the groundwork for the psi and mesh rules, helping us do something different and keeping it functional. Best Production Values: Adam Jury rocked the graphic design of this book.

I cannot emphasize that enough. We love you, Rob! Thank you for your generosity in sharing these files with us! I was so happy to back the Kickstarter for Transhuman. This has become my favorite RPG! Just love the setting! Will finally get to play it, this autumn.

The PDFs are extremely handy — browsing them in the first place not only made me go out and buy the whole line of books I prefer the printed version, but use the PDFs for quick reference — and to lure in new players , but also to preorder the next edition of the core rules at my local games store. Great initiative!

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Thank you sir. Make sure to up he RPPRs crew rep. They were the gateway drug to your game for me. Landaker May 15, at pm. Thanks for your great work! Thank you for providing a wonderful game, that will provide countless evenings of entertainment. I downloaded the core book here and loved it. Next day, I went out and bought a hard copy, cause you guys are awesome and deserve every cent. Thanks much. This gift has convinced me that I should buy some more Eclipse Phase hardcopies.

I have a hard copy of Core rules and Panopticon. Thanks for all your hard work. Axel the Chimeric. I have this image in my head that the Argonauts are people who have looked at science, through the ages, and seen how long it's been in the hands of governments and industries, both of which have used and misused it to their own ends.

Then, as they looked at this, saw the world collapsing, old power groups splintering, and realized they had an opportunity. They saw a chance to slip the leash, and they took it. Technology finally allows for independent living, free from all others, and, with it, independent science.

The Argonauts are members of that tradition extending back to men like Darwin or Huygens, who explored and performed science without needing large amounts of funding or backing behind them. They are Open Source scientists. Argonauts are frontier scientists, who combine in equal parts derring-do and scientific rigor. They perform experiments without boundries for concerns like profit or fear of losing their position though they may be cautious to avoid losing Rep on touchy subjects.

Every Argonaut can and must be as comfortable in the lab as they are in the field. An Argonaut is the guy who, when you face charging xenofauna, leaps from behind, declares that he is about to perform science, and then wrestles the beast to the ground, implants it with a tracking chip, and sends it on its way.

An Argonaut is the woman who decides to test the limits to current gen self-replicating nanotech by finding a moonlet and grey-gooing it. An Argonaut is the uplifted chimpanzee who, to better understand the routes pathogens take and ways to combat them, regularly injects themselves with both deadly bacterium and new, untested medichines, to see which will win.

Argonauts are badasses in labcoats. Extrasolar Angel. The part of military-industrial-research complex that broke off from corps and gov's and wants to start with a clean state in outer space. Rule System. Apocalypse World Engine. BRP Basic Roleplaying. Modiphius 2d Savage Worlds. Product Type. Core Rulebooks. Non-Core Books. Other Tabletop Games. Gift Certificates. Publisher Resources. Family Gaming. Science Fiction. Phone PDF. Virtual Tabletops.

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Anarhista wrote:Giving up all. The Doctor wrote:I do not. I can totally see the. I can totally see the Argonauts as being involved in the development of muses for coordinating and managing research teams, as well as workable r-rep systems. But this is a technology a lot of others would also want to develop: at most argonauts would have pursued a particular style of application.

It is important to remember that argonauts were a minority of the research and engineering community: the vast majority remained where they were, perhaps secretly cheering them on or thinking good riddance. Most of the science and development of the past decades was not done by the argonauts.

However, they might have been important for certain technologies developing like they did. Two techs where I think argonauts were important in influencing the direction were the Mesh and medichines.

The Mesh is kind of obvious: much more useful if you are an ad-hoc society where centralized control is seen as potentially bad, and an easy sell to all sorts of other informal groups.

When the big networks fell in the Fall the Mesh architecture won. Medichines is a bit more of a guess, but I think it makes sense. When you consider just how amazingly powerful and useful they are, you realize that they are the end point of a century of automating medicine.

They require not just advanced nanotech but also a deep understanding of medical robotics, automatic diagnosis, AI and safety engineering. Lots of people would be pursuing this, of course. But from a technoprogressive perspective automated medicine is not just cool, but almost a moral imperative: to give as many people as possible health you need to automate medicine, since otherwise the price will always be set by doctor and nurse salaries, making it unavailable for the bottom billion.

So the argonauts would be pursuing this with real zeal, aiming to make sure medichines were as available as possible. The reason they are as cheap as they are is partially that any sensible polity will subsidize them a healthy and epidemic-proof population is good , but also likely that the argonauts have been distributing their open versions as widely as they can.

Any other argonaut "signature techs"? Note that I am not saying they all came from an argonaut lab, only that the argonauts have been pushing them in certain directions. I'm not sure I can agree with you there. Part of the reason for this thread's existence is the lack of information about the Argonauts in the established canon.

The only useful words I can find are 'numerous' and 'widespread' in relation to, first, initial membership and, second, current membership in comparison to other similar socio-political movements.

What percentage of humanity's total research pool in terms of numbers and quality buggered off to the rim in the initial schism is completely unquantified at this stage.

I'd like to think it was substantial, as much as a third say, and significantly hampered progress in the inner system for several years while progress in the outer system advanced by leaps and bounds. Sufficiently for the Argonauts to swoop back in during the Fall as knights in shining armour. Not professional. I don't know what the numbers are but Scotland has seen a number of incidents where vast numbers of the most talented and energetic individuals emigrated to Canada and the USA.

There is no doubt that this had a massive long-term impact on our economy. It is a long running joke here that there are more Scotsmen in the rest of the world than there are in Scotland.

Lies, damned lies. I'm not sure where you found the immigration to USA data but the population expansion data immediately precedes the data I was looking at. It's hard to work with so I was just giving broad strokes. From to 2,, Scots left Scotland. That's in excess of 30, per annum. During a substantially overlapping period the population of Scotland grew by 2,, which is 28, per annum.

Assuming that those growth figures remained static and life expectancy was about 45 years in , then there would have been 1,, native born Scotsmen living abroad and only 4,, living in Scotland. That's It didn't happen over night but it did happen and very quickly on a socio-political scale.

It wasn't the professionals that left, it was the up and comers. The Andrew Carnegies. One thing I'd like to discuss. One thing I'd like to discuss is the difference between the Argonaughts and r-Rep. I'd be willing to bet that Research Network Associates is a corp in and of itself controlled by Argonaughts. Probably working as an arbitrator for a nearly peer-to-peer social network.

One thing I think is that probably most people in EP do not see themselves as one faction or another. A hypercorp researcher might have one corporation he is an employee, or member of, a habitat which he would think of as home, probably a political party that he thinks of himself a member I'd be willing to bet most hypercorps are willing to maintain at least the illusion of some form of democracy , and he watches his r-Rep like a hawk to see if his papers get published and if he gets noticed.

He might even think of himself as an Argonaught and wonder why RNA allows those anarchists yahoos in the outer system get away with so much.

Which leads me to my second point about why the hypers might not care so much about having Argonaughts release data.