Looking for imput and ideas so fire away. Purpose should be obivous: article for the magazine. <br /><br />Premise #1: this will be a short table laden article that will be concerned with good science but not handicapped by it that the article or tables become encumbered<br /><br />Premise #2: its a one time read and forget it article till you, as a referee need an ecological impact for your setting. so it will be brief and fast and loose with the science but try to maintain a veneer of science.<br /><br />Chance of Ecological impact:<br />Total the modifiers below and roll d100 if result is lower than the total of the modifiers then there is an ecological impact on this planet.<br /><br />Heavy population +10<br /><br />Industry, agriculture, or resource element to planet's economy +10 (only counts once not accumulative)<br /><br />Site of mega corp headquarters +10<br /><br />Planet is judged to have major mega corp activity despite the lack of a MC headquarters +10<br /><br />High volume of nuclear powered starships landing and taking off +10<br /><br />alien ruins +10<br /><br />Recent or ongoing military action +10<br /><br />Presence of refugees +10<br /><br />Example: Clarion- hvy pop +10, resource economy +10, mega corp headquartered there +10, referee's opinion that the presence of multiple major space stations in orbit reduces the volume of nuclear powered craft from landing on planet so no +10 for that. Clarion has a 30% chance of an ecological impact. <br /><br />Next is to roll on the ecological impact table NOTE im still assembling impacts so feel free to suggest one. Each impact will have a discription and a table for contributing factors.<br /><br />1. Poisoning of environment <br /><br />2. dying off of 1 or more native species<br /><br />3 Climate change<br /><br />4. ?<br /><br />5. ?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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