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Latest — 03 Aug 2026

Dear Simon Reynolds...

You spent decades documenting histories of scenes. I spent days discovering I'd been living inside one of its footnotes. No one imposed it — that's your line, more or less, about the press cycle's self-sustaining cruelty, and I believed it right up until I

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Condottiere-class Frontier Contingency Transport

A starship designed under Classic Traveller Book 2 (1981) rules. Book 3 provides the technology-level and planetary-vehicle context. Condottiere is both a mercenary transport and an armed crisis-response platform: it carries a platoon-sized security force, but it can exchange that force’s mission load for medical,

The Revolution Will Be Monetized… Somehow

There's an argument going around that AI has finally freed the musician. Skip the label, skip the recoupment trap, skip the A&R gauntlet. Buy thirty dollars of AI-powered distribution, generate a thousand tracks, and out-release the majors into oblivion. The algorithm rewards velocity, the

A Milk Run: After the Run

Reward: the fee (scale it to your table's economy), plus fuel and berthing covered. But the real currency is intangible: Aalsund's future favor (unless the chit was spent), a warm welcome anywhere the flotilla flies (Corin and Sael), standing with Calder-Voss. A milk run that

Welcome to Moominvalley

A TiGGR Setting Getting Started Touchstone: Tove Jansson's Moomin books — a small blue house by a river, a family of forgiving trolls, and a valley where the strangest visitors are always, eventually, welcome. Scene: Moominvalley — a lush, half-wild valley between forested hills and the open sea, somewhere

Return to Target

Sunday afternoon at the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Public Safety Training Center. It's a mouthful, and those who frequent it call it PSTC. I first set foot here nine years ago to get fingerprints taken, not for any shenanigans, mind you. My employer scored a contract

What Happens If This Ship Exists?

From Traveller tonnage to political consequence Dungeons & Dragons may have been my first exposure to tabletop role-playing games, but Traveller was the one that truly caught my imagination. Part of that was surely the presentation: three steadfastly nondescript black booklets in an equally monolithic black box, bearing the

Reading the Wake

A designer's afterword to Neighbors This is not part of the game. The rules don't need it, and a table that never reads it will play exactly the same game as a table that does. It's here for the curious — an account of where

A Milk Run: Part Three

Scene 4 — Hyperspace (the immovable middle) Forty-eight hours sealed in the dark. Nothing you do shaves it. No rolls touch the Margin here — protect it. This is the breath between the relay and the arrival, and it's where the doubt grows. The comms rule (your own physics,

The Specimen

An essay about AI and water that spends more words taking its headline back than making it — and why that is the most honest thing about it First in a series on how debates about scarce resources get told as stories about personal guilt. You have probably met the number