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Description. Alien is a role-playing game set in space in the far future that has two modes: Campaign: The usual role-playing milieu, where the gamemaster creates a "world" and a plot, then describes a situation or story hook to the players, who then indicate how their player characters react. [1]
The Draco Dwarf is a spheroidal galaxy which was discovered by Albert George Wilson of Lowell Observatory in 1954 on photographic plates of the National Geographic Society's Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS). [5] It is part of the Local Group and a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way galaxy. The Draco Dwarf is situated in the direction of the ...
This gave an isophotal diameter for the Milky Way at 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years), by assuming that the galactic disc is well represented by an exponential disc and adopting a central surface brightness of the galaxy (μ 0) of 22.1 ± 0.3 B-mag/arcsec −2 and a disk scale length (h) of 5.0 ± 0.5 kpc (16,300 ± 1,600 ly).
List of stellar streams. This is a list of stellar streams. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy. It was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has now been torn apart and stretched out along its orbit by tidal forces. [1] An exception in the list about Milky Way streams given below is the Magellanic Stream ...
Classic Traveller. Traveller Alien Module 2: K'kree is a 1984 role-playing game supplement for Traveller, written by J. Andrew Keith and Loren K. Wiseman, cover by David Dietrick, and published by Game Designers' Workshop. Part of the classic Traveller Alien Modules series.
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks is a 1980 adventure module for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game written by Gary Gygax. While Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science fiction, and thus belongs to the science fantasy genre. [1] It takes place on a downed spaceship; the ship ...
A Stargate is a fictional Einstein–Rosen bridge portal device within the Stargate fictional universe that allows practical, rapid travel between two distant locations. The devices first appeared in the 1994 Roland Emmerich film Stargate, and thereafter in the television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Infinity, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, and Stargate Origins.
After striking out in the third, Schwarber led off the fifth and sent a 1-0 pitch 427 feet to right to make it 4-1. “It’s definitely a tone setter for us when he goes out there and does that ...