Forbidden Planet - Lost Race
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I see them[The Krell] being Anicent rivials or allies or even some of Grandfather's offspring .
ShapeShifter
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I thought I'd dig up this old thread instead of starting another one...
Are there any official write-ups of a race like the Krell, or any details from the FP movie (the brain-boost tech, the subterranean machine, the C57-D, etc.) for use with CT rules? Every time I see the movie I guess the RPG part of my grey matter starts trying to formulate interesting ways to incorporate concepts into MTU, but stalls out for some reason.
I assume that Dingir 0702 is inspired by the movie star system and its fate at the end of the movie. The Solomani Rim supp. doesn't show a red circle of interdiction around it, but travellermap.com does. Post-kaboom the red circle would be unnecessary, really.
Are there any official write-ups of a race like the Krell, or any details from the FP movie (the brain-boost tech, the subterranean machine, the C57-D, etc.) for use with CT rules? Every time I see the movie I guess the RPG part of my grey matter starts trying to formulate interesting ways to incorporate concepts into MTU, but stalls out for some reason.
I assume that Dingir 0702 is inspired by the movie star system and its fate at the end of the movie. The Solomani Rim supp. doesn't show a red circle of interdiction around it, but travellermap.com does. Post-kaboom the red circle would be unnecessary, really.
I only see one world called Dingir on TravellerMap, and that's at 1222 Solomani Rim and is not red-zoned.
I only see one world called Dingir on TravellerMap, and that's at 1222 Solomani Rim and is not red-zoned.
I believe he is referring to Altair/Dingir0702 (SolomaniRim 1522).
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Is the map location proper. Seems it's off.
I'm going to assume you mean Solomani Rim and not Spinward Marches there...
I think barren worlds in the Imperium automatically become red zones if they're not colonised (this seems to be the general trend the maps indicate), which would explain why Altair (1522 Solomani Rim) is red-zoned.
The people, on the starship in Forbidden Planet, were turned into energy. There is a statement for the crew to hurry up and get into the shells or they'll bounce around the interior of the ship when they drop below light speed.
They didn't call them shells in the movie.
Those plastic shells they used were in another movie. Some Earth scientists were given fantastic equipment and taken into a secret experimental lab setup so another human-like race could find a way to defend their planet which had some kind of metal, or ceramic looking, shell around it for protection. This one is: 'This Island Earh'.
Both of these came out in the 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Island_Earth
Aha ! This Island Earth came out in 1955 and Forbidden Planet was 1956. I like both of them.
They didn't call them shells in the movie.
Those plastic shells they used were in another movie. Some Earth scientists were given fantastic equipment and taken into a secret experimental lab setup so another human-like race could find a way to defend their planet which had some kind of metal, or ceramic looking, shell around it for protection. This one is: 'This Island Earh'.
Both of these came out in the 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Island_Earth
Aha ! This Island Earth came out in 1955 and Forbidden Planet was 1956. I like both of them.
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Enoki
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The one I cited is a sci-fi. Two starships get a message / signal from an unexplored planet. They go there, and one of the ships crashes. The dead crew are taken over by an unseen alien presence and reanimated. They then try to do the same to the other ship's crew.
It's really pretty good drama as it keeps you guessing and you never see the "monster" clearly. For a mid-60's film it's worth watching if you haven't seen it, even today.
Timerover51
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Bela Lugosi starred in that in 1931, and I would definitely agree that is far and away the best Dracula movie. The problem for Bela is that he was type-cast from then on, as was Boris Karloff with Frankenstein.
I am not sure that I would put the Krell into my universe, which is biased to the Rim, or Larry Niven's Thrint, but Andre Norton's books have a consistent theme of dangerous ruins in them, and also the Bald Space Rovers, that I am more than happy to work on. As they date to about 15,000 BC, no problem with them running into the Ancients or the Krell.
Enoki
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Planet of the Vampires is sort of Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Alien done with an art deco theme. Trust the Italians to make it an "arty" movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhzb-TEaQYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhzb-TEaQYE
Don't know if it was intentionally artsy. But i've seen it. It's a vamp movie with space ships.
Timerover51
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I am glad that I went back and re-read some of the posts. I missed the Bold Points in ShapeShifter's quote of Morbius. I now think that I will locate a colony of them somewhere in the Piper Sector, preferably far out, as I can then put Earth biology, or parts of it, on some of the outer planets. Note, Krell artifacts only, not sure about a functioning Robbie the Robot.
A Belated THANKS to ShapeShifter.
Solomani Rim 1522.
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I think I accidently deleted some of my newer thread subs, and didn't see this repy. My apologies.
My Crestar game world is based on some of Andre Norton's Witch World series... there are Gates that lead people from other worlds to Crestar. And the fact that Crestar is two flat planes, not a spherical world, is sort of based on Farmer's Tiers of Worlds series. Also, in a pocket universe.
I have thought about moving Crestar into my Travller ATU, but I don't think that would work.
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I'm working on a different idea for the Ancients... not jelled just yet, by the ones I am working on came into the universe much further back.
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Timerover51
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After pondering if for far too long a time, I think that the Krell are going to be added, but none living. Subterranean ruins are possible. Also going with remains of the Bold Space Rover empire from Andre Norton, with some humans scattered about or human ruins left behind.
I am going with the Fuzzies, as Little Fuzzy is public domain, but without that lovable Jack Holloway. Those will be interesting to contact. Not sure about the Wyverns on Warlock, although Storm Over Warlock is also public domain.
The far Out Rim should be an interesting place.
I am going with the Fuzzies, as Little Fuzzy is public domain, but without that lovable Jack Holloway. Those will be interesting to contact. Not sure about the Wyverns on Warlock, although Storm Over Warlock is also public domain.
The far Out Rim should be an interesting place.
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