Kravak

Kevin,

Los is off the list for some work related stuff overseas. To my knowledge he
and Tom were working on the Kravak stuff. Maybe Tomb can fill you in?

Bob

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Henrix,

You know more than you think. When I talked to a key source within GZG (I
won't mention his Jon name Tuffley here to preserve his anonymity), he
indicated these were used as a bit of an inspiration for the sculptor. 2300
was a very GZGverse style of universe, had about the same time period for
setting, and had some EXCELLENT artists who produced some very good work. GDW
produced a lot of good stuff in its time.

Notice how some weapons seem to look like the 2300 ones? Kafers (no umlaut for
me...) look a lot like KV? The Goliath looks like the M9, the Rommel like the
german Panzer, and the Wombat like the German GEV AIFV? And the FSE look a lot
like Legion in 2300? Now, a fair number of these
can be explained by similar source material and ideas (a near-to-today
recognizable-ish sci-fi game is likely to resemble another). But their
is at least a passing nod to 2300.

Which, BTW, has inspired me to work on a 2300 conversion for SG2 and
DS2. Haven't got around to worrying about FT/Star Cruiser yet. Will post
it when I get done.

The other thing I recall from 2300 vividly... the Kafer name for humans.
Das Flieschessen (sp?) which they suggested translated as "meat-being".
Bugs.... can't live with em, but you can shoot em. Least as long as you shoot
FIRST.

> At 17:48 2002-05-16 -0400, Tomb wrote:

Yep, I had an inkling 2300 was a source of inspiration. I haven't checked item
for item, but when I started playing 'Grunt I borrowed all 2300 material I
could find, as inspiration. (Some sort of circular thing going
on here ;-)

> Which, BTW, has inspired me to work on a 2300 conversion for SG2 and

This guy has done a little bit:
Dirtside 2300 http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/1966/ds2300.htm
and Star Cruiser Lite (based on FT)
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/1966/scl.htm

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