So a few other threads have had me thinking... A part of the fun in Eclipse Phase is that the new technologies we get to play with solve a lot of old problems and create a lot of new ones; whole new potential experiences become available to explore. Characters don't die permanently anymore, barring extreme hard luck, but the methods by which they do raise questions of identity. The lack of material necessity in many aspects of life (food, shelter, clothing, energy, all are incredibly cheap in most places) makes whole new challenges (blueprints are now the trade in life, it's very hard to restrict things, etc.). The banishing of old chauvinistic attitudes has hardly prevented the rise of new ones. This is just a handful of things. Problem is, as we experiment with these things, we can't help but remember that they are brought about only by technological progress and, as technology progresses and transhumanity changes into posthumanity, the problems that are new now will be old then and solved far more easily. So what is a challenge to a posthuman? What gives meaning to the life of a being who needs nothing? Who lives in a society who reshapes whole worlds for their own amusement? More importantly, which of these challenges can be made interesting from the perspective of players in a game? I'm certain I could write elegant fiction about a society made of foglets designing a new world, after all, but it hardly makes for compelling game series. Of course, exploration of alien worlds is always fun, but I'd like something that focuses inward a little; something where the conflict is more with intelligent entities than the environment. Anyone got any ideas?