I didn't go into the details above as I was pressed for time a bit when I wrote it, but to give some more details without searching for them: This is set in a early extra-solar age, using ships rather than the gates of EP. Humanity had some hard times prior to where the setting starts, but not to the point of loosing earth entirely. This makes earth the human hub of the universe. Prejudice and cultural issues however hindered the development of genetic engineering as seen in EP. The concept of transhumanity exists however mostly due to the advent of the first genetically engineered race, the Nazzari. Though for several generations the Nazzari where forced to live in space and where actually kept mostly separate from the rest of humanity by a series of laws. The laws and prejudice are decreasing in the modern era, but genetic engineering was set back for fifty or seventy years. On top of that humanity encountered several alien races, 3 in particular, that some also consider 'transhumanity' though the term is not well considered by the alien races when it includes them. Only one of these other races has the ability to 'resleeve' as in EP and cortical stacks are unheard of among other races. AI also exists, though it didn't run amok as seen in EP and digital life is still in it's early ages so rights and prejudice exists in some places. Uplift programs are new as well, facing alot of the same issues as digital life does. These strong racial lines leads to a separation of backgrounds, factions, and 'morphs'. Some 'universal' factions exist though and I'm considering a few universal backgrounds, but these should be several years down the line from where the setting picks up (it's been 10 years since the 4 races start working jointly so it's a bit early for kids to have grown up in universal backgrounds). In terms of altering the rules for the setting, not much was needed. The biggest change is in morphs, since their is only one race that can resleeve (and it's in fact a artificial race). This however doesn't tend to effect pricing, I looked at it effecting pricing but that causes issues due to minimum skill expenditures so picking a subrace type is balanced in cost similar to standard EP. In fact boosting the base cost for Case is the only change not backed up by standard EP sources and that was done because they are the race with resleeving. I am borrowing some things from CT (which happens to have been the first system I tried to run this setting with), but most of those don't come in until what I like to call 'season 2'. Concepts like Tagers, Mecha (over 10 foot tall), and Psionics are the parts I'm still working on. I'll have some notes on electrokinesis and the two power armor suits used within the campaign within the next couple of weeks (Edit: around half of the stuff for electronkinesis has been added). Btw a few 'secrets' that don't show up on the campaign wiki, but I feel may be of interest: * Out of the precursor races the forerunners are effectively transhuman in 'normal' EP concept including resleeving and multiple 'use bodies'. They are directly responsible for the advent of intelligent biological races having done a form of long run genetic uplifting, it's the cause of numerous humanoid form races developing. They are also the 'parents' of the Case, who remember the Forerunners perfectly well as they were a variant of AGI laborers for the forerunners. In fact the Case are sitting on the last fleet of Forerunner ships that they've been maintaining for millenia. They also have some minor interest in the long run genetic programs done by their creators, which explains how they have helped other races over the millenia. * A forerunner artifact found on one of the planets in the solar system accounts for the development of Human FTL drive system. Though no other technologies have been developed form the ruins and the company responsible for the drive system hasn't admitted that the drives origins are forerunner. * The precursor 'race' known as the 'force' is in fact still out their lingering in the edges of space and come out from time to time to test newer races. They are easily the oldest known precursor race and are made up of several groups. Unknown to most some of the various components of the 'Force' are in fact described by Ctuthlu myth, such as the Order of Dagon. The Case will recognize them, though they have no name for them, as the Forerunners fell to the agents of 'Force'. The Forerunners however did manage to conceal the Case 'home system' from the Force, so the Case were spared. * The Be'Rul have actually experimented with genetic engineering in their past, but those influenced by these programs were expelled from the home world well before the first colonized system by the Be'Rul. The Be'Rul however have hopes of eventually creating a 'acceptable' genetic variant as the future of their race. Along those lines they also maintain a series of biological 'weapons' they used to tame their homeworld, among those are concepts similar to Tagers and 'Engels' from CT. Though the ruling classes where never subject to the genetic conditioning needed to use either technology. * It's never stated very clearly, but the Nec/Nevk homeworld is a very violent world where for their entire history the Nec/Nevk races where on the bottom of the food chain. This has raised them to be very aggressive and resilient compared to most other races. It's also why they have the least advanced technology, lacking FTL of their own design unlike the Be'Rul, Case, and Humans. They do excel at aeronautical engineering however with very innovative designs along their vessels to compete with more technologically advanced ones. Their are other surprises, but this is probably enough for you for now. ^^

I got around to finishing telekinesis sleights and skills. These are not terribly powerful, in fact besides making extensive use of knockback/knockdown EK is probably more damage focused. Of the 'big' level 2's you have the Mass Effect/Star Wars-ish 'Shockwave' and 'throw'. The classic 'Warp' or 'TK bullet' effect. 'Crush' and 'Grab' which will function as the classic SW 'throat hold' move. limited Pyro and Cryo kinesis (each is it's own sleight and share a skill). A Kinetic Barrier sleight. And the ability to make mighty leaps. Nothing world shattering in strength and their are significant limits to how much weight can be lifted. No one will be throwing cars anytime soon, Lifting a 1 ton car would take a WIL score of at least 1000 (that would need some impressive morph). Unfortunately for Yoda in Star's Edge size does matter. http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/stars-edge/wikis/psychokinesis

Well I have finished a good chunk of my conversion work, so the my first custom weapons under the EP ruleset can be found here: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/stars-edge/wikis/kinetic-weapons I decided to start with kinetic weapons and I'm working my way up to from pistols into larger weapons. You'll notice several changes over normal EP rules. Starting with tossing the non-sense that is all pistols being full auto, and before you wonder why that's non-sense you need to read the 'types of small arms' link found off of that page. It has the definition of what a Pistol is, what an SMG is, and what Rifles are. I left out the large debate about the overrun between machine pistols (which is what all EP pistols become by allowing full auto with them) and SMG's (the difference being ones scaled up and the other is scaled down). Other changes include listing weights (this goes with minimum SOM ratings later as well), not listing average DV (it belongs on a table), listing ammunition caliber (this becomes important with a modified ammo table later), and what will probably be obvious really quick: Much increased ranges for most types of guns. As an example a FN Five-seveN has an effective range of 50m and a max range of over 1500m in real life right now. Yet a medium handgun in EP is good within 10m, falls off at 30m, is barely effective at 50m, and basically 'stops' going after 70m. So I took 2/3rds of the max current range for a weapon of it's class, which also happens to typically match maximum ranges listed in GURPS, and used that as extreme range, half of that as long, then use GURPS 1/2D range as a guide to Medium, and create an effective range of half of that number. Initially playtesting suggests these don't change much whether my custom setting or straight EP as most fights end up within 25m. It also makes carrying a handgun far more effective and seems to make less 'well I'll just grab that Sniper Rifle again' (though I add another catch for those I'll post when I get to them). Anyways... let me know what you think...