I strongly belive Chaosium will need to provide some strong official settings for Basic Roleplaying, to have the great success we are all hoping for. Generic supplement can only get you so far, as they usually lack some of the flavour you can get with a setting.
For the sci-fi setting, there is allready a monograph out there, which I think would fit perfectly: Cthulhu Rising.
Cthulhu Rising is a sci-fi setting 300 years into the future, where big corporations are exploring the stars and colonizing new planets. The players groups are usually either civilians, employees of one of the corporations, or space marines.
3 campaigns have allready been written for this game and is available for the Cthulhu Rising website, together with lots of other material free for download.
The setting startet as a pure BRP setting, but was later released as Cthulhu Rising, because some inspiration is taken from the Cthulhu Mythos. The feel I get is more like Aliens than Lovecraft though.
Have a look at their website:
CTHULHU RISING: Horror Roleplaying in a Dark Future
What do you think? Could this be something we should push Chaosium to make the official BRP sci-fi setting? To me, it looks extremely interesting.
SGL.