Retro Rockets
I enjoy retro future settings for Science Fiction. It turns out I am not alone in this. The fine folks were very encuraging when I decided to write Solar Sagas (SoSag) for Quantum. SoSag never specified a year to start a SoSag campaign. Fast Forward to 2025. I'm writing SoSag's evolution: Retro Rockets for FTL: Nomad and I decided to pin down an actual year for campaigns as well as a timeline (should people choose to use it). I decided history went off the rails are 1947, though there were bizarre occurrences before then. To summarize I went with a vision of the Solar System before the Mariner probes showed us how unlivable it all was. However, my version of the planets was not entirely Golden Age. Some new features discovered by our probes were used. Mercury is not tidally locked and rotates. The Jovian moons experience radiation, sometimes quite extreme (such as on Io). After all people have already written Golden Age Solar System settings for stories and games...