[CT+] Imperial Science Stations.

[Keklas Rekobah]

I'm compiling a list of Imperial Research Stations, and have so far come up only with Alpha through Eta, and Omicron. This makes 9, including two separate listings for Epsilon.

This list will include Name, Location, Date Established, Purpose, and History or current Status.

There are also 4 Solomani Research Stations, and the two Psionic Institutes that had their charter revocations revoked.

Are there other canonical Imperial Research Stations?

 

[Gadrin]

well, if it'll help you the following books on the CT cd-rom have the phrase "research station" in them

CT The Traveller Book.pdf
CT The Traveller Adventure.pdf
CT B07 Book 07 Merchant Prince.pdf
CT 00 Book 00 Understanding Traveller.pdf
CT A01 Adventure 01 The Kinunir.pdf
CT A02 Adventure 02 Research Station Gamma.pdf
CT A03 Adventure 03 Twilight's Peak.pdf
CT A06 Adventure 06 Expedition to Zhodane.pdf
CT A12 Adventure 12 Secret of the Ancients.pdf
CT AM5 Alien 05 Droyne.pdf
CT AM6 Alien 06 Solomani.pdf
CT AM8 Alien 08 Darrians.pdf
CT G04 Game 04 Fifth Frontier War Complete.pdf
CT M01 Module 01 Tarsus.pdf
CT M02 Module 02 Beltstrike.pdf
CT M03 Module 03 Spinward Marches Campaign.pdf
CT M04 Module 04 Alien Realms.pdf
CT S03 Supplement 03 The Spinward Marches.pdf
CT S08 Supplement 08 Library Data A-M.pdf
CT S10 Supplement 10 The Solomani Rim.pdf
CT S12 Supplement 12 Forms & Charts.pdf

I don't have Adobe's SDK anymore, so I can't give you more info than that at the moment. If I can figure out a way to automate the extraction I'll give it whirl.

Should I bother with the JTAS cd ?

 

[Keklas Rekobah]

well, if it'll help you the following books on the CT cd-rom have the phrase "research station" in them ...
Should I bother with the JTAS cd ?

I've done the Adobe search on the entire CTCDROM several different ways, including "Classified," "Project," "Research," "Secret," "Science," "Scientist," "Station," and the name of every letter in the entire Greek alphabet and Hebrew alephbeth. So, JTAS would be my next choice.

Not only do I need a comprehensive canonical data base, but I need to know what Stations do not already have a specific purpose. I call dibs on Research Station Omega!

 

[Gadrin]

I've done the Adobe search on the entire CTCDROM several different ways, including "Classified," "Project," "Research," "Secret," "Science," "Scientist," "Station," and the name of every letter in the entire Greek alphabet and Hebrew alephbeth. So, JTAS would be my next choice.

Not only do I need a comprehensive canonical data base, but I need to know what Stations do not already have a specific purpose. I call dibs on Research Station Omega!

well alas my system isn't working well.

Keklas, when you open (any) a CT PDF does your FILE menu have the option SAVE AS TEXT ? Mine does, and on a different PDF from the web it works just fine, exporting the entire thing to text. But with the CT PDFs I get a zero-KB file.

There's also other tools out there that'll convert PDF to text, however they're not always pretty.

I've dumped a significant amount of text from the Milieu-Zero PDF to text so I can read it when I'm not around a computer. Printing the PDF is barely legible, and I can format text into something easier to look at.

Anyway, give the SAVE AS TEXT a try. Looking at the document properties I don't see any restrictions, but I certainly don't know Adobe very well.

 

[Keklas Rekobah]

Keklas, when you open (any) a CT PDF does your FILE menu have the option SAVE AS TEXT ? Mine does, and on a different PDF from the web it works just fine, exporting the entire thing to text. But with the CT PDFs I get a zero-KB file.

I have to say that while I am mostly satisfied with the CTCDROM, it's that word "mostly" that becomes the operative term. There are some PDFs on that product wherein the text is actually a random matrix of ordinary text font, and a graphical representation thereof.

In other words, to copy Library data, and paste them into a player's hand-out, I've had to virtually re-type entire paragraphs verbatim from what shows in Adobe 8.0!

So if you were to try a Save-As-Text, you would likely be disappointed with the results.

Back to topic ... Research Stations Gamma and Omicron seem to have the most commentary on the WWW. The rest have either a single line entry, or nothing at all except their name and location. This means that some of the canonical Stations can be more fully defined to fit the needs of a gaming group. I have something special in mind for Omega...