For some reason, I was supposed to design a game for all of the Polish scouts (over a 100 boys and girls from 5-18ish) at one of our Polish scouting camps that involved giving the Narn and Centauri from Babylon 5 more advanced technology and resolving the conflict between these two races.  I tried to encourage negotiations, but soon I had to figure ( Read more... )

During the 1990s, there was a sci-fi show called Babylon 5.  Recently, AOL has decided to show a few episodes each month for free.  The basic premise is that after a bloody war with an alien race, humans decided to build a space station in neutral territory where all aliens could meet to trade and engage in diplomatic negotiations.  Even though the ( Read more... )