OK, it does look good. Very detailed and very reasonable.
I haven't gone through the rules, yet, but the ones I have seen look pretty good as well.
The only things that rankle, in my opinion, are the fact that everyone is an Investigator (when the last type of game I want to play is an investigative one, this is the second reason why I don't like CoC) and the inclusion of the Cthulhu Mythos (which is the main reason why I don't like CoC).
So, for me, this would make a good campaign setting for a SciFi BRP game if they forgot that everyone was an Investigator and if they forgot the Cuthulhu Mythos.
Having said that, there is definitely a place for the "Aliens were/are on Earth" model, with ancient remains on far-away planets. Even finding some of the Chthulhu Mythos creatures on other planets would be fun. Conspiracies are always good for a laugh as well, with aliens trying to take control of organisations/people/religions.
But, the "Oh, no, it's so scary and terrible that my mind is going!" idea just doesn't work for me. It might have been fine in the 1920s when new ideas such as Relativity and Quantum Mechanics were changing how people thought of the universe and how astronomy showed the universe was a lot bigger than people thought. However, now and in the future, I can't see it being a factor.
So, if it had the Cthulhu bits well and truly filed off, it would work well for me.
If only we could have everything included in a single ZIP file, rather than having to hunt through all the links to get information on colonies etc.
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