OK just started reading Star Mercs. The S-3 scouts, what is their mission? The sidebar hinted that is partly counter insurgency. Do they function more like a paramilitary police force? I can see them dealing with minor threats to the communication system like the US postal inspectors used to do.
S-3 Scouts
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mike wightman
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S3 is derived from this in LBB6:
mike wightman
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GT First In has this to say about the IISS:Special Service Section:
I'm pretty sure S3 deals with violations of interdiction, along with what Sigg relates above.
In any case, the S3 leaves the counterinsurgency stuff to the Marines and Army.
S3's watchword seems to be "precision". They seem to pride themselves on achieving their mission objectives with the minimum amount of destruction and loss of life.
Try and track down a copy of First In, it's easily one of the best of the GT line.
-John
In any case, the S3 leaves the counterinsurgency stuff to the Marines and Army.
S3's watchword seems to be "precision". They seem to pride themselves on achieving their mission objectives with the minimum amount of destruction and loss of life.
Try and track down a copy of First In, it's easily one of the best of the GT line.
-John
mike wightman
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Where did S3 first appear?
Was it the Rapid Repo adventure in DGP's MT Journal issue 3 or did they get an earlier mention somewhere?
Was it the Rapid Repo adventure in DGP's MT Journal issue 3 or did they get an earlier mention somewhere?
mike wightman
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Thought so.
I just wondered if I'd missed an obscure piece of canon somewhere.
I just wondered if I'd missed an obscure piece of canon somewhere.
I am guessing that S-3 units are quite rare. Little issues can be taken care of by planetary officials, big stuff by the navy and army. I can see S-3 fulfilling the role SWAT teams do in the US in the spectrum of force. More than a beat cop, less than the National Guard. For those times when you only need a platoon or two.
Sadly, that particular adventure lies in the domain of Sangerville and all of the Traveller stuff.
I do have a copy with a nasty crease across the front due to posties folding the magazine. I would be willing to part with for a very unfair price of US$25.00 plus P&H. I am sure that others are willing to part with theirs for much less but I am very attached to my DGP stuff.
If you are willing to pay this, then PM your address and I will go to the post office to find out the exact postage (pls. also let know how you wish it sent air, surface or attempt letter). Warning: postage rates between Canada and the US are quite high.
I do have a copy with a nasty crease across the front due to posties folding the magazine. I would be willing to part with for a very unfair price of US$25.00 plus P&H. I am sure that others are willing to part with theirs for much less but I am very attached to my DGP stuff.
If you are willing to pay this, then PM your address and I will go to the post office to find out the exact postage (pls. also let know how you wish it sent air, surface or attempt letter). Warning: postage rates between Canada and the US are quite high.
mike wightman
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Joe Fugate may still have a few to sell.
Have a look at this thread:
http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=43;t=000154
mike wightman
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How's this for an early reference to S3:
Library Data, CT Adventure 4: Leviathan.
So a branch of the scouts so secret that Book 6 does not mention it directly in the character generation. You can go to the Operations office and Intelligence school to be sent on Special Missions but no direct mention of enlisting in S-3.
So that is how you make an S-3 character.
I assume that they don’t possess grav tanks and battleships. Perhaps one regiment per sector?
Hmmm . . . is that far trader coming in really a merchant or is it an S-3 covert strike team?
So that is how you make an S-3 character.
I assume that they don’t possess grav tanks and battleships. Perhaps one regiment per sector?
Hmmm . . . is that far trader coming in really a merchant or is it an S-3 covert strike team?
There was a period of time while MT was being published where there were attempts to 'update'the CT background by proxy, that is via articles and adventures instead of new rules sets. Nobody official planned it, it was simply the result of a number of freelance hardcore Traveller authors.
mike wightman
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By chance I found another old reference:
IISS article, page 13, JTAS 6, by Loren Wiseman and Marc Miller.
