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Liam Devlin
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Sweet Mother of God, and about time too!
YUS!
YUS!
OKay...
It's set in the wreckage of the Black Imperium, in a system where pretty much everything has collapsed. The system has been taken by forces of the Reconstituted Ziru Sirka (what's left of it).
The characters are operators of a salvage ship, who stumble across a lead that might make them rich (or at least able to leave for better worlds).
Of course, the chasing down this lead will be difficult, and it'll lead to places nobody expected.
It's set in the wreckage of the Black Imperium, in a system where pretty much everything has collapsed. The system has been taken by forces of the Reconstituted Ziru Sirka (what's left of it).
The characters are operators of a salvage ship, who stumble across a lead that might make them rich (or at least able to leave for better worlds).
Of course, the chasing down this lead will be difficult, and it'll lead to places nobody expected.
Sounds really cool. Wow. So by then, the Empress Wave would be a full 14 or so parsecs into the Regency. Though I'm sure that has somehow factored into your thinking when you wrote the adventure.
Restored Ziru Sirka. Cool. In Vland Sector I take it?
Good luck with it. Glad to see someone championing the New Era.
Liam Devlin
SOC-14 5K
It's set in the wreckage of the Black Imperium, in a system where pretty much everything has collapsed. The system has been taken by forces of the Reconstituted Ziru Sirka (what's left of it).
The characters are operators of a salvage ship, who stumble across a lead that might make them rich (or at least able to leave for better worlds).
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Music to the ears of "Jumping Jack Flash Interstellar Salvage & Mercantile Ltd!" YUS!
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Of course, the chasing down this lead will be difficult, and it'll lead to places nobody expected.
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"Adventures? No thank you! Nasty things, make you late for Dinner!"--paraphrased from a Mr B. Baggins, No 1 Bag End, BagShot Row.
Of cousre it 'll go where no one expected...
I shall wait...with anticipation!!!!!!!!
The characters are operators of a salvage ship, who stumble across a lead that might make them rich (or at least able to leave for better worlds).
____________________________________________
Music to the ears of "Jumping Jack Flash Interstellar Salvage & Mercantile Ltd!" YUS!
____________________________________________
Of course, the chasing down this lead will be difficult, and it'll lead to places nobody expected.
____________________________________________
"Adventures? No thank you! Nasty things, make you late for Dinner!"--paraphrased from a Mr B. Baggins, No 1 Bag End, BagShot Row.
Of cousre it 'll go where no one expected...
Martin
Adventure yes please!!!
For those who are desperate for TNE adventures, there are some good ones on the BARD site (I must admit some bias, as I wrote a couple of them).
Also Liam's Solee war history gives excellent background / adventure possibilities.
Liam - must have more solee war
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Cheers
Richard
Adventure yes please!!!
For those who are desperate for TNE adventures, there are some good ones on the BARD site (I must admit some bias, as I wrote a couple of them).
Also Liam's Solee war history gives excellent background / adventure possibilities.
Liam - must have more solee war
)Cheers
Richard
Liam Devlin
SOC-14 5K
More on Solee war??? Ask and ye shall receive...I'm scavenging up my "war notes" for a time line, dates/ places of battles.(the big ones). I've gone from outset of hostilities to March 1204 after ADM Bint Reine gets the Bismarck treatment at the hands of the RCN & RADM Von Kessel comes out to stall the war a bit longer.
I see Von Kessel is now up on Bard (thank you at last lewis)
As is Pt2 of "Rise and fall of Solee" (part one is attached to the world write of Solee (Lewis any day now, huh? But relax, MJD has his copy too.As do i, in the Argon Blue Files here
Oh, and Richard's not spreading the Hiver chow on his stuff guys, lady (Sleinte, LisaGB!), its Kick @ss stuff.
Shall we break news on our project or let em guess a while, Richard? Mums the word on that fer now!
Survived weekend okay.
I see Von Kessel is now up on Bard (thank you at last lewis)
As is Pt2 of "Rise and fall of Solee" (part one is attached to the world write of Solee (Lewis any day now, huh? But relax, MJD has his copy too.As do i, in the Argon Blue Files here
Oh, and Richard's not spreading the Hiver chow on his stuff guys, lady (Sleinte, LisaGB!), its Kick @ss stuff.
Shall we break news on our project or let em guess a while, Richard? Mums the word on that fer now!
Survived weekend okay.
What is the "Empress Wave" that folks keep referring to? I dropped of RPGs pretty much altogether during law school and that pretty much overlapped late MegaTraveller/early TNE - and I never really paid much attention to TNE.
Did the Zhodani go and blow up the center of the galaxy?
Did the Zhodani go and blow up the center of the galaxy?
The best canonical information on the Empress Wave phenomenon can be found in Survival Margin and the Regency Sourcebook. Basically, it's an ill-understood wavefront phenomenon radiating out from the galactic core which seems to destabilize psionics, create an immense sense of dread, and is accompanied by mental visions of a regal woman bearing a technic staff beneath an alien sun or suns. In fact, the illustration on the front of TNE represents the "Empress Wave" vision as communicated via Project Longbow to Emperor Strephon, who, in an attempt to articulate the impression it left on him, privately dubbed the woman an "empress". The wave SEEMS to have something to do with the last Zhodani core expedition (oh how the Joeys love their core expeditions...). Late pre-Rebellion intellligence indicated signs of civil conflict within the Consolate which may amount to a civil war: this phenomenon itself seemed to be coterminous with the advancing wavefront (which is moving at the speed of light unless I'm mistaken). Avery Aledon faked his own death (a real chip off the old block) in order to mount an expedition coreward to investigate the phenomenon. His observations included a disruption in psionic abilities which included the spontaneous manifestation of latent abilities and the loss of already apparent powers: this very likey upset the Zhodani social order, causing civil insurrection. The latter bit of information may or may not be reliable. I read it online shortly after GDW closed its doors: the page claimed to be set up by someone who worked with Dave Nilsen and who wanted to resolve the various loose threads left hanging (e.g. what's the Black Curtain, waht's the Empress Wave, etc.). Interestingly, the figure on the front of TNE was so inspiring that more than one writer tried to call dibs on who it represented. In fact it was at one point going to represent Gabriella Ramstatten. GDW even held a fan contest through Challenge Magazine to see if anyone could figure out who "the woman in black" was. Incidentily, the winner was a stout CANADIAN lad (I think the prize was a copy of the Deluxe boxed TNE set, or something of equal value). Other guesses included Margaret (sign me up for that faction!) and Cher.
daryen
SOC-14 1K
The Black Curtain is so named because all ships which have entered that area of space have never returned. Ever. No exceptions anywhere in canon.
While it is surmised to be some sort of virus controled empire, nothing has ever been defined. Lots of theories, but nothing has ever been definitively stated.
While both the Empress Wave and the Black Curtain are extremely abiguous, I think there is more canon information on the EW than the BC.
While it is surmised to be some sort of virus controled empire, nothing has ever been defined. Lots of theories, but nothing has ever been definitively stated.
While both the Empress Wave and the Black Curtain are extremely abiguous, I think there is more canon information on the EW than the BC.
As some of you know I am in the process of updating my site, when complete I will be uploading the whole site in one go.
What I was wondering is wether people would like me to put adventures on the site as well as background material to the two Traveller campaigns. One is an alternate universe and one is set in the Banners sector post virus. What about caharcter write-ups?
You can check the existing site at www.users.bigpond.com/Skaran
What I was wondering is wether people would like me to put adventures on the site as well as background material to the two Traveller campaigns. One is an alternate universe and one is set in the Banners sector post virus. What about caharcter write-ups?
You can check the existing site at www.users.bigpond.com/Skaran
The "Dave's Secrets" page, if I remember correctly, expained that the area beyond the Black Curtain is a virus-infested travesty of the former Third Imperium/Lucan's faction. Apparently Lucan's researchers made great headway against the onslaught of virus shortly after the light went out in 1130, but virus went underground and adapted to the anit-viral measures. A key feature of the measures included restrictions on who and what the virus was allowed to attack (e.g. it was forbidden to attack the person of the Emperor, damage the Imperium's infrastructure, etc.). While it seemed to work at first and most of the suicide inducing strains died out, more clever adaptive strains mutated. Some mega-strain decided it would preserve the Third Imperium as a test specimen: it put implants in all the citizens or replaced them with infected robots that fulfilled the same fuctions as thier biological predecessors. Lucan was seized and turned into a cybernetic travesty of life, doomed to ape his court functions from the Iridium Throne forever (he is fused to the Throne, and it sustains his life-fuctions) while virus observes and collects data. The virus strain does not like interferrence however and the "fleet" (vampire ships crewed by androids and cyborgs in uniform, believing they are the Imperial Navy) faithfully destroy or capture anything piercing the "Black Curtain". So, the players would enter the curtain and discover an eerily intact Imperium run by virus and its puppet emperor. According to the notes some future adventure was supposed to involve the players fighting or sneaking thier way to Lucan and, in return for data on defeating the virus, giving him the death he has been denied for so long. Interesting ideas, maybe not what I might have done with the Black Curtain, but interesting nonetheless. Our canon sources only really tell us that the area will eventually be explored, invaluable data on Lucan WILL be recovered, and that said data will be scanty because popular anti-Lucan sentiment will drive people to destroy data and evidence linked with the last Emperor. Who the hell these people are and what they're doing inside the Black Curtain is anyone's guess.
No, I haven't seen the page since 1997-98 or thereabouts: that's why my information is so sketchy. The page featured some unused artwork (including a not-very-flattering adult Avery with a beard) and about nine or ten sections relating to unresolved plot threads. Besides the BC and EW the only other one I recall was a bit on the nature and locations of some Hiver "Dark Nests".
P.S. My compliments on your "Manifest Destiny" material: even if it wasn't brilliant stuff on its own, I would still have you to thank for the holo featuring the first meeting between the RC and Regency. I laughed my ass off.
P.S. My compliments on your "Manifest Destiny" material: even if it wasn't brilliant stuff on its own, I would still have you to thank for the holo featuring the first meeting between the RC and Regency. I laughed my ass off.
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