Re: Background Irrelevancy--and Poll (was Re: AIs and such.

 Peggy & Jeff Shoffner <pshoffner@earthlink.net> said;

>Actually, I have thought up a very small skeleton of 
> a background that would reflect FT's movement rules. (They work more
like 
> you're sailing through water, rather than flying through space.)  My
thinking 
> was a 19th century genre with outer space being discovered to be a
fluid of 
> ether.  Have most of the stuff happening around the Solar System with
maybe 
> some ooutposts at Alpha Centauri and whatnot; maybe some H.G. Wells or
early 
> Heinlein aliens on some of the worlds to make it exotic.  However, I 
> mentioned the idea to a friend and he said there was actually a role
playing 
> game that was similar to this.  Any notion as to what it was?

Would have probably been Space:1889, by GDW.