Perry Rhodan?

dice_40 · #1 April 1st, 2003, 11:57 PM

hi, i am a noob on playing se4, but it is like drugs in my veins. i am also a big fan of scifi and especially of perry rhodan. when somebody knows where i can get shipsets or a mod about perry rhodan, it would be xmas and birthday at the same day for me.
i think that perry rhodan is one of the best scifi series, i ever see. i have read about 1000 of these booklets (every booklet has about 62 pages)and i am still enthusiastic reading it.
now there are 2171 of these booklets out and every week a new one is publisht. when sombody like to see more information about pr i can give you a short summary, what happens in the first 1000 booklets.

so whish nice gaming and give me a hint when you see something about a pr mod.

p.s. sorry for my bad english, but it is not my native language

Ruatha · #2 April 2nd, 2003, 12:02 AM

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Originally posted by dice_40:
hi, i am a noob on playing se4, but it is like drugs in my veins. i am also a big fan of scifi and especially of perry rhodan. when somebody knows where i can get shipsets or a mod about perry rhodan, it would be xmas and birthday at the same day for me.
i think that perry rhodan is one of the best scifi series, i ever see. i have read about 1000 of these booklets (every booklet has about 62 pages)and i am still enthusiastic reading it.
now there are 2171 of these booklets out and every week a new one is publisht. when sombody like to see more information about pr i can give you a short summary, what happens in the first 1000 booklets. so whish nice gaming and give me a hint when you see something about a pr mod.

p.s. sorry for my bad english, but it is not my native language

2171x62=134602 pages, impressive!

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 April 2nd, 2003, 11:33 AM

indeed, very long, longest i now know about. since i'm also an english only book geek, does anyone know of anything in english?

Power Man · #4 April 2nd, 2003, 05:32 PM

Yes I remember the PR series. The paperback books started out at 50 cents each. Still it was a lot for a young kid in the 70's. I would vist the bookstore and bring back 2 or three new one each visit. I recall coming home once and sitting down on the couch and not looking up till I had read the whole book.
There are LOTS of ships described from small one man scouts to planet size super dreadnoughts. Lots of various beams and missiles too.
I remember massive battles with 1000's of ships on each side.
The story line went from book to book with each one ending in a cliff hanger.
I may even still have some of the books in an old bookcase.

alchemy · #5 April 2nd, 2003, 08:07 PM

Brings back fond memories ... Perry Rhodan & the E.E. "Doc" Smith series!

I need to break out my Lensman copies and read them again.

gregebowman · #6 April 2nd, 2003, 08:44 PM

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Originally posted by docshane:
Great to hear your father-in-law to be is a railroad nut. So am I. Sorry to say I have not heard of Perry Rhodan.

Ditto on that, both on not hearing about Perry Rhodan and also being another train nut. And here I thought Dr. Who took the title as longest running sci-fi series. someone mentioned a movie, but I was wandering if there were any episodes on DVD, with both German and English Languages. I took 2 years of high school German, but that was over 20 years ago, so I would prefer to have the English Version.

klausD · #7 April 2nd, 2003, 09:13 PM

Hey Perry Rhodan. I did not know that it is still published in the States too. The most young men in Germany/Austria are reading these tiny little booklets. I am grown up with it and today I am reading one or another of stories from time to time.
Its the most read pulp SF series in the world (I think they claim it is translated in 20 Languages or so)
I think some of the Perry Rhodan setting is very good suited to SEIV. But that I guess that the Terran empire comprises several galaxies (at least in No 2000) Difficult to simulate this in SEIV.

klausD