PROTOSTARS!

No difference and every difference this time. I'm aiming to satisfy most of the pulp wargamers and still keep the promise to Harald, to recommend a blog which is pure roleplaying and storytelling.

It's ix.

What's the blog all about? All I can say with a certainty is the parts are wondrous, but the whole is something else. I can give you links, but you need to feel your way in.

If ix has a guide for the newcomer, a Rosetta Stone or universal translator, it's this post, on Humanspace Empires. Sci-fi fans and wordbuilders especially should find their hearts open. If you need more input and love a map, the next post has it. Forget 40,000, this is 62,000. More on the planned books here and a timeline here.

On the subject of 40K, think you know Tau? Think again here. For aliens, you need this and this (possible models at diceRolla). For transhumans, try this. For something that might be mixing them all, this, a dungeon setting in space, a space hulk of sorts.

We've discussed spirituality here a lot over the last few days and if you enjoyed that, you'll surely enjoy this review of The Unknown Gods.

The blog is also involved in the domain-level project at Hill Cantons, as may be clear from this tale, also featuring a certain Lohan.

And if you think 2012 is the end, need we say you may be mistaken?

If you've made it this far, your possible reward is the news that ix also appreciates the female form, especially as embodied in Jenny Agutter, and specifically Jessica 6 in Logan's Run. It's a fine line between presentation and exploitation, as I try to point out here, but this time I think the partial nudity just scrapes through. So where's the link?

Remember, it's the journey and the sights on the way, not the destination - explore!

That's ix.

Don't forget the previous PROTOSTARS!

• Confessions of a 40K addict
• Super Galactic Dreadnought
• Fire Broadside!
• Blighty Waaagh Boys, including the intro to the series