BubbleGum Crisis Additions

Since R.Talsorian Games makes the Role Playing Game for BubbleGum Crisis as well as the Cyberpunk 2020 and Mekton Zeta Plus RPGs used to play Universal Century 3000, it was an easy leap to merge the two. The additon of Trans-Dimensional roleplay has been thoroughly concieved by Palladium Games' excellent RIFTS role-playing game for over a decade. In UC3K scientists of the Earth Federation simply experienced an accident while experimenting with Faster Than Light, Hyperdrive or Space Fold propulsion systems for their BattleCruiser Starships and discovered the existence of parallel universes quite similar to their own. This is rapidly leading, due to the efforts of the S.S.A.T.13 to leaps in technology based on the superior robotic and warfare technologies of the parallel universe dubbed "A-Earth" (short for alternate Earth) by Olympus Scientists. Now being added to the available list of technologies for UC3K are such advances as:

• Dimensional Storage (Stupid Mekton Trick - Mekton Zeta Plus - Pg. 91) - Termed "FlatSpace" after the effect shown in the movie "UltraViolet" this new technology allows the character to transport much greater amounts of gear around with them with no added weight. It's the "Portable Hole" of Science-Fiction. While an object is stored in FlatSpace it has only two dimensions, Length and Width with no Depth or Mass. The size of the object is limited by the size of the portal, i.e. - it must fit through a 24-inch opening, which is the maximum portal size that a man-portable FlatSpace generator can open.
• High-Strength Cybernetic Limbs - Capable of lifting up to 5000 kg if connected to a Full-Conversion Body, these new limbs are Decades beyond any that the UC3K universe has yet seen. They inflict 12d6 AP damange in hand-to-hand
• Advanced Armor - the SP of standard A-Earth cyborg limbs, based on their "Boomer" war-robot technology is 30! Which is upgradeable to 55sp with the addition of minimal added plating. In UC3K standards this is as much armor as a tough LandMate but at the scale of a human being.
• High-Power Laser Technology - Man-portable, Rifle sized laser technology can inflict up to 24d6 damage with the new advances made by A-Earth scientists. Pistols can achieve 12d6 with limited shots (six). This FAR outstrips even the impressive technology of the Near Earth Orbital lasters recently seen on the battlefield.
• Consciouness Download - An Above-top-secret technology! This is the advent that the timeline has been waiting for! Ghost in the Shell-style "Ghost" AI. The Nanotechnological miracle of the bio-cyberbrain is now possible. this is exactly as portrayed in Masmune Shirow's "Ghost in the Shell" manga/anime. You can copy your brain almost exactly into an artificial Boomer-Brain designed for A-Earth war-robots and leave your meat behind entirely. barely larger than a human brain these "CyberBrains" as they are called in UC3K are in their infancy as a super-hot new technology. Interestingly, the original human is harmed in no way by this transfer. Provided it is voluntary and is not done too many times. (see the Ghost in the Shell Manga) Now the process of aging has been stopped. Technical imortality has arrived, provided nobody blow's your head off,

Further advances will follow. In the near future are such changes as the reduction in size of mass-production-model miltary BattleMechs with no loss of Megadamage Capacity, leading to a greater proliferation of Battlemechs and the gradual phase-out of LandMates over the next 20 years. The advent of "HardSuit" technology from A-Earth will change the nature of personal armor, resulting in something more akin to RIFTS mega-damage personal armors. LandMates/ACPAs will double in strencgth and Armor SP.
True Flight with combined HERMES technology and advanced Vector Thrust technology from A-Earth scientists will become a standard feature on all LandMates though NOT on HardSuits. This will be a defining difference.
And of course, war-robot "Boomer" technology will explode onto the battlefield scene as every side of any conflict moves to employ these cheap, deadly, terminator-warriors onto the UC3K battlefields.