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Reference

Jame

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Okay, so on the Traveller map there's a notation for "Reference" in Core Sector. Is it just the Imperial Library of Trantor, Travellerized and planetary? Can anyone tell me more about it?
 
I was under the impression it was the 'zero meridian' equivalent of the Imperium. Sorta like Greenwich in the UK.
 
I was under the impression it was the 'zero meridian' equivalent of the Imperium. Sorta like Greenwich in the UK.
I am under this same impression. If this is incorrect I'd be curious to know what it actually is.

Shiara
 
Reference is detailed in Traveller Digest no.10

Here is a summary

1) It is not on an X Boat link - but has its own private X boat link. It has no gas giant or water.

2) The UPP is D100100B -s and exites at Reference/Cadion/Core location Core 0140.

3) The system's name until the Grand Survey was Mamatava, it was a research station of the 1st Imperium and pretty much ignored during the Rule of Man. The research station was composed of a vast network of underground tunnels.

3) It was not traditionally put on starcharts

4) The world was rediscovered during the 1st Survey. It was declared a red zone because the surviving inhabitants were nasty xenophobes.

5) In 339 the old tunnels of the Vilani research lab were turned into the library of the 1st survey. It gradually became the library of the 3I. The system also became the reference point like the Greenwich meridian at this time.

5) The Computers on Reference are not networked together to protect the data. Computers dating back to 1st survey exit on Reference.

6) Tunnels are divided into sections some containing pressure, some not.
 
So... all that data might have survived in The New Era in one piece?!
 
I would not worry about the data surviving the new era. But, like the HIWG most of the data would be useless as it is "out of date". Remember the data is being updated but the Rebellion, subsequent Hard Times and Crash would have made only the Astronomical data correct.

I would be more interested to see what else in the Core sector has survived into the TNE...

Although, it is concievable that part of the network is occupied by Hobbyist viruses and they are continuing the work started by imperial scouts.
 
Nosy, nosy, nosy....
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Curiosity killed the cat you know. There are SOME things better left alone.....(que "Twilight Zone" theme song).
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Pappy
 
Ghosts of the "Ship Who Sang" a self-aware ship is, at least to me, a very frightening thing. Imagine having all that power at your disposal. But then I al;ways was a bit of an automaton phobe (robotophobe?) , whatever, I don't like artificial life. I guess I was scared by the movie "Metropolis" as a child or sickened by "West World" as an adult.

Pappy
 
Originally posted by Jame]:
Well, well, well. Celetron. Now I want to know what that is!
Celetron is the home of Research Station Omicron, where Virus was developed.
 
I thought Celetron research station was working on a AI ship and the virus development was a by-product of that research when the sentient chips first mentioned in "Signal GK" and Dr. Rushorin, who was smuggled out of Solomani space to lead the research were moved there by the Empire.

Pappy
 
Originally posted by eiladayn:
I thought Celetron research station was working on a AI ship and the virus development was a by-product of that research when the sentient chips first mentioned in "Signal GK" and Dr. Rushorin, who was smuggled out of Solomani space to lead the research were moved there by the Empire.
Well, maybe it's that too
. All I know about it is from TNE, which says that's where Virus was being developed.
 
Maybe the ship AI(previousley tested on the Kinunir don't forget and therefore old "news") is just a cover story for what was really going on ;)

If a party of adventurers can get into one research station...
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The Virus was developed from Dr. Rushorin's chip, at least so I thought so both stories may VERY well be true, huh? :cool:

Maybe somebody should go look
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Pappy
 
I have played a scenario, whereby, that one played the researchers, who want to escape from Ommicron to warn the factions of the Rebellion.

It was a combination, "The Spy who Came in From the Cold" and Paranonia RPG. One of the players, was in fact, a Lucan INI agent slowly assassinating everyone. So you can bet that Dulinor's fleet looked like liberation save when the nukes and Tactical Hunter teams were deployed.
 
This is all good conspiracy stuff - sorry to bore you but just want to get some canon references.

The Celetron AI ship reference is from library data from Traveller's Digest 11. It is said to be a century away from completion but fire control systems are said to be nearly available.

Dave Nilsen connected this reference up to the Signal GK to produce Virus in TNE (DN wrote a few articles in TD by the way).

Is the reference that Rushorin was taken with the Cymbeline chips to Celetron canon or assumption (its a pretty good assumption to me).

The Kinunuir was a secret navy project and much older than the 1116 and library data is supposedly public in the Traveller universe -

Maybe the project was going on at Celetron for centuries and the Rushorin chip was the new part of the research project?
 
The reference to Rushorin is from "Signal G-K" CT Adventure 13. Rushorin was a defector from the Solomani regions, he mounts the first expedition to Cymbeline to search out the semiconductor crystals including one identified as chip 10987. Rushorin was to be rushed to Terra as part of the adventure and then, I assumed, to Celetron to help develop the AI ship and incidentally, the Virus. Some of this may be conjecture on my part, but it seems to follow nicely with what supposedly happened, right?


Pappy
 
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