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Setting: Couro Sector

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What is it? An adventure setting on the frontier of Charted Space. A place where travellers may wander in search of adventure. In a nutshell:

LBB3 said:
The players must move, act, travel in search of their own goals [...and...] must boldly plan and execute daring schemes for the acquisition of wealth and power.

Where is it? The action takes place in subsector F of the Couro Sector, a sector in the wilds.

Yes but Where is That? I haven't yet received a solid answer to that. Those who claim to know are either blowing hot air or being evasive or intentionally unclear.

Who's there? Young colonies and unexplored worlds. There are fewer than the typical number of class A ports - and therefore what power there is, is concentrated. Colonies are frequently engaged in revolutions, struggles against petty states, and tradewars against other colonies. The nobility, as is typical of human cultures, is inherited and feudal, with all of the politicking that goes with it. The structure of this interstellar culture is harshly stratified, and that stratification matters.

How advanced is the technology? TL 11, with one world, Shagian (Couro 1212/A8C4895-C), at TL 12.

What professions are there? This is the unknown, into which players are dropped to help make known. This is a lawless place, into which players are dropped to bring order. This is a place of change, in which players may make or lose fortunes. Demand centers on interstellar explorers, speculative traders, mercenaries, agents, and rogues.
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[/FONT]What else is interesting? Unlike inside the Third Imperium, space travel is uncommon. Survival chances are low by current Traveller standards. Low berth deaths, pirate encounters, misjumps, and the use of unrefined fuel is at the frequency of Book 1, rather than that of later editions. Expect there to be many missing ships -- and the opportunity to find them. Expect new ships to be rather hard to come by.
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Is this a call for players, an announcement of soon to be released materials, or a call for adventure writers?

If for players, I am game. Soon to be released materials, up for that too.

And working with someone else, I can collaborate on adventures.
 
Is this a call for players, an announcement of soon to be released materials, or a call for adventure writers?

If for players, I am game. Soon to be released materials, up for that too.

And working with someone else, I can collaborate on adventures.

I'm chomping at the bit to write something a bit edgy. If my proposal (for another project) gets shot down, then I would be willing to help on this.
 
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year of the Imperial (?) calendar

I have a waterworld ready

Unevenly developped fragments of a Pocket Empire for my Foreven. Easy to fully write upon request.

have fun

Selandia
 
Unevenly developped fragments of a Pocket Empire for my Foreven.

That reminds me of one of the possible locations for the sector: it's Foreven. However, that probably is still "too close" to the Imperial sectors to feel wilderness-y.
 
That reminds me of one of the possible locations for the sector: it's Foreven. However, that probably is still "too close" to the Imperial sectors to feel wilderness-y.

It is all about your reference date, if the presence of the TI at trailling of the Marches start at 55, the Five Sisters are settled in the 600's and the Wiki give 400's as a general date for settlement of the Spinward Marches. (if I get my references right)

It is about a year J-2 round trip between Darian and Foreven subsectors spinward of Reidain or Urnian

have fun

Selandia
 
I use TravellerMap for my orienteering, so I suppose that implies the golden era or thereabouts.

A roll of one meaty Traveller5 die comes up with a "5" as the direction towards Core.

Assuming as usual that "1" is straight "up" on the map, then, a "5" is "Southwest". So this means Couro Sector is Northeast of Core? That would put it past Amdukan. Perhaps it's just past the Empire of Gashikan.

For example:

http://travellermap.com/?x=47.632&y=175.794&scale=16&dimunofficial=1

But it's only four sectors from Core. So, 5 sectors away, and with a minor rift too:

http://travellermap.com/?x=40.608&y=217.604&scale=16&dimunofficial=1

Or perhaps the sector just beyond it, on the other side of the rift, for which there is no data.
 
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