Icar

Icar is a free science fiction role-playing game (RPG) designed and published by Rob Lang. The game has been played since 1990 and shared online since 1996. Icar is a typical space opera with a race of killer robots, bionics, faster than light space travel and energy weapons. Icar can be downloaded as a PDF for free from the official website.

The majority of Icar is written by Rob Lang, with contributions from Andrew O'Byrne.

Play overview

Icar is a traditional roleplaying game designed for sandbox play. Each player creates their own player characters to match the theme of a setting and directs the actions of their character during the course of player. Icar is intended for use over a number sessions in the form of a campaign.

Icar departs traditional roleplaying games by creating a sandboxed world using timelines and events. A timeline is a story arc and events are pivotal moments in that story arc. The player characters interact with the events and by doing so affect future events.

Icar uses different mechanics for different types of combat, using both 10 sided (D10) and percentile (D100) dice. Due to the speed and complexity of combat, Icar is not designed for use with miniatures, instead favouring paper and pencil maps.

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See also

Apple electric car project

The Apple electric car project, codenamed "Titan", is an electric car project allegedly undergoing research and development by Apple Inc. It is rumored a substantial number of Apple employees are working on this project.

The project was rumored to be approved by Apple CEO Tim Cook in late 2014 and assigned to Vice President Steve Zadesky, a former Ford engineer as project in-charge. In January 2016, Steve Zadesky was reported to be leaving Apple for personal reasons after 16 years. For the project, Apple was rumored to have hired Johann Jungwirth, the former-president and chief executive of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America, as well as at least one transmission engineer. To date, Apple has yet to comment on any plans to make an electric car.

Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs had plans to design and build a car, according to Apple board member and J. Crew Group CEO Mickey Drexler, who said that discussions about the concept surfaced around the time that Tesla Motors debuted its first car. Former Apple iPod Senior VP Tony Fadell confirmed that Steve Jobs was interested in an Apple car back in 2008, shortly after the original iPhone was introduced.