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Prometheus
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good old times
Marches it is.
Marches it is.
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Why so? I enjoyed the JG stuff I read. (Indeed, I've been thinking of using Darthanon Queen and Simba Safari for the Gateway to Destiny stuff if I can get around to figuring out where to put it.)
mbrinkhues
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Gateway as written for T20 by MJD. Closely followed by Diaspora for the Hard Times setting. Reft Sector/MGT comes in as third but it's a photo finish for the three
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I find them dull because I find nothing of interest in them; the "zho/imp struggle" doesn't really register at all for me. And also because they are not really a frontier at all, despite claims to the contrary in the fluff.
captainjack
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well, he seems to...
That said, outrim void all the way. You want a frontier or backwater, it can be both. Plus, Leviathan is set there....my vote for one of the best adventures.
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well, he seems to...
That said, outrim void all the way. You want a frontier or backwater, it can be both. Plus, Leviathan is set there....my vote for one of the best adventures.
Yeah I am just avoiding him now....
Leviathan is a great adventure. Unfortunately, later developments (subsequent to its publication, I mean) showed that the supposedly virgin frontier Outrim Void had been criss-crossed by merchants and scouts for six or seven centuries, which sort of ruined the premise a bit. I wrote an adventure called Leviathan: 400 for JTAS Online that was (as the title indicates) Leviathan backdated to the year 400. I got so interested in it that I wrote two more articles about the background (The Outrim Frontier parts I and II). If you have a subscription, you may want to take a look at it.
Hans
You asked me a question, I answered it. If you want to be rude about it by then telling me that "you don't care what I think" then don't ask me in the first place. You are the one being antagonistic here, not me.
The Trojan Reach is the name of the sector that contains the Outrim Void. In Leviathan, the Outrim Void is a vast unexplored region Where No Man Has Gone Before rimwards of the Imperium. In later portrayals, it's a band of non-aligned systems some ten parsescs wide separating the Imperial worlds to corewards from the Hierate worlds to rimwards, and Aslans have been trading with the Imperial worlds since around 400 (exact dates differ from source to source).
Mind you, the Outrim Void is quite likely a backwater, since there's a jump-3 trade route that bypasses most of its systems. But it beggars belief that no intrepid explorers have ventured there in search of fame, fortune, and material for autobiographies in the past seven centuries.
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Blix the question was asked before I discovered your sterling qualities: pedantic; pretentious; condescending; and passive-aggressive. Sigh, and I am sure you will insist on have the last word here. And because I would like to stay on COTI, I am going to make a point of avoiding you. After all you seem to have quite a following and you have been here how long?
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Levithan is where I first heard of it, then at some point it becomes Trojan Reach. Yes, the Imperium is hemmed in on all sides pretty much.
Though Leviathan does seem to state it was settled, just not recorded in Imperial records.
captainjack
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Hans, that has long been one of my favorite articles from the JTAS; and just generally a favorite, too. Thanks very much for it.
I'm probably going to try and run it next time our group gives me the screen (we rotate -and after 2.5 years of traveller, and a new job for me, it was time to kill orcs, and to have someone else set them up.).
I may continue run it as a scout adventure, or to hammer leviathan into it.
Yes indeed. There has even been a few later references to a pocket empire that flourished there during the Long Night. I did quite a bit of work on Sindalian settlement patterns in order to figure out which worlds in the region had native populations in the form of lost colonies.
Hans
Ha! I just read that last night when I made the post about the Trojan Reach/Outrim Void sector. Interesting stuff, nice work.
Why was it decanonized? I enjoyed the JG stuff I read. (Indeed, I've been thinking of using Darthanon Queen and Simba Safari for the Gateway to Destiny stuff if I can get around to figuring out where to put it.)
