Re: [HOE] Unity Spoilers in Lost Colony

[PEGShane@aol.com]

I guess it's time I chimed in here.

In no particular order, here are some answers to your questions.

1) Clint Black is almost always right. Good lord, you'd think the guy worked 
for us. ;) You should see his Savage Worlds Starship Troopers conversion!

2) Why do most vehicles look like they're from the '80s? Because they look 
cooler. Really, that's the answer. HOE was originally envisioned as "The Road 
Warrior" with monsters. It's grown considerably larger than Mel's movie, of 
course, but when we asked George Vasilaskos (now of Eden) to draw the cars, I 
told him I wanted Road Warrior type vehicles.

3) The Unity has normal "space ship" armor, maybe a little tougher than the 
space shuttle. As was mentioned by Clint and others, I assumed it had 
Hellstromme's special energy shields for any attacks directly against it--and 
those would work against supernatural forces (demons) as well. It was also 
never intended to go toe-to-toe with demons--smaller, faster ships from its 
launch bay would go from the Unity's emergence point to wherever it needed to 
go. In my head, at least, if Hellstromme needed to go back into Hell and 
really get into a fight, he'd build "cruisers" and other larger ships. 
Consider the Unity a well-armed scout ship.

4) Clint's observation that the legions of Hell just *might* be combat-able 
is something I've given quite a bit of thought to in the history of 
Deadlands. The answer is yes, and no. Think of it like the world. You can 
drop into certain places, and given enough firepower (both mortal and 
supernatural--depending on what you're fighting), do some serious damage. The 
problem is that there are many, many powers in Hell who (in my head) have the 
ability to sense trouble (or at least receive calls for aid) and then can 
either move quickly to aid or even teleport in. But they can't all do that.

Finally, there are certainly a few major powers in Hell on the scale of the 
Cthulu Old Ones, but they don't tend to get involved unless there's a real 
threat. They're a little more---distant. Even a major invasion fleet by 
Hellstromme would probably seem like a rash to these powers.

I won't get into the rest of Hell here--that's a subject for the Black Book 
if it ever comes out (don't even ask right now), but should help in this 
conversation.

Thanks all,

Shane (and there's no way I could afford crack on a game designer's salary) 
;)