Whatever happened to Flashback?

[Jeff M. Hopper]

I just picked up COACC from a used book store and saw an ad in the back of it for an adventure called Flashback. Was this ever produced? That ad was the first I had ever heard of it, although it seems to be an interesting concept. Anyone know anything about this?

 

[Jeff M. Hopper]

I just picked up COACC from a used book store and saw an ad in the back of it for an adventure called Flashback. Was this ever produced? That ad was the first I had ever heard of it, although it seems to be an interesting concept. Anyone know anything about this?

 

[Jeff M. Hopper]

I just picked up COACC from a used book store and saw an ad in the back of it for an adventure called Flashback. Was this ever produced? That ad was the first I had ever heard of it, although it seems to be an interesting concept. Anyone know anything about this?

 

[mike wightman]

Nope, it was never produced

It has been mentioned in a couple of interviews IIRC, but not even the manuscript has made it to the MT CD ROM.

Very interesting concept for a campaign though...

 

[mike wightman]

Nope, it was never produced

It has been mentioned in a couple of interviews IIRC, but not even the manuscript has made it to the MT CD ROM.

Very interesting concept for a campaign though...

 

[mike wightman]

Nope, it was never produced

It has been mentioned in a couple of interviews IIRC, but not even the manuscript has made it to the MT CD ROM.

Very interesting concept for a campaign though...

 

[Flynn]

What was the concept? I'm here at work, and having recently moved, I still need to unpack my Traveller books.

Thanks in advance,
Flynn

 

[Flynn]

What was the concept? I'm here at work, and having recently moved, I still need to unpack my Traveller books.

Thanks in advance,
Flynn

 

[Flynn]

What was the concept? I'm here at work, and having recently moved, I still need to unpack my Traveller books.

Thanks in advance,
Flynn

 

[mike wightman]

From the advert:

FLASHBACK
Historical adventuring in the Imperium's past.
Somewhere, ages ago, a squad caught the edges of a devastating radiation blast.
Rather than die lonely deaths, its members swore a pact to seek out a cure, then they retired to cold sleep.
Every time they awake, they come out in a nexus of history.
They are there when the Long Night falls, when the Imperium is founded, when Nicholle is assassinated, when the Civil War ends, and more...
They are travellers in time the only way possible forward, ever forward.
And their greatest challenge awaits them when they reach the present...

I'm sure that somewhere there is an interview that explains that the squad is from the Interstellar Wars period...

 

[mike wightman]

From the advert:

FLASHBACK
Historical adventuring in the Imperium's past.
Somewhere, ages ago, a squad caught the edges of a devastating radiation blast.
Rather than die lonely deaths, its members swore a pact to seek out a cure, then they retired to cold sleep.
Every time they awake, they come out in a nexus of history.
They are there when the Long Night falls, when the Imperium is founded, when Nicholle is assassinated, when the Civil War ends, and more...
They are travellers in time the only way possible forward, ever forward.
And their greatest challenge awaits them when they reach the present...

I'm sure that somewhere there is an interview that explains that the squad is from the Interstellar Wars period...

 

[mike wightman]

From the advert:

FLASHBACK
Historical adventuring in the Imperium's past.
Somewhere, ages ago, a squad caught the edges of a devastating radiation blast.
Rather than die lonely deaths, its members swore a pact to seek out a cure, then they retired to cold sleep.
Every time they awake, they come out in a nexus of history.
They are there when the Long Night falls, when the Imperium is founded, when Nicholle is assassinated, when the Civil War ends, and more...
They are travellers in time the only way possible forward, ever forward.
And their greatest challenge awaits them when they reach the present...

I'm sure that somewhere there is an interview that explains that the squad is from the Interstellar Wars period...

 

[mike wightman]

Found it

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=46;t=000007

14) In the back of COACC there was an advertisement for an adventure
called "Flashback". Loren has commented that this was one of your projects but
that nothing ever came of it. Was anything ever put together for it? Is there
any hope for it ever seeing the light of day? It always seemed like a really
great idea to me.

Flashback was a concept (GDW commonly titled projects before there was
ever a manuscript). It transformed into Fast Forward (which I would still like to
do).

Basically, it is

In the early days of the Rule of man, a group/ship crew, rather large...
Gets a big blast of radiation and elects to go into cold sleep until a cure
can be found. Some few come out from time to time to check on things,
and manage to be present at the major events in history. Each time they come
out, there is a moral dilemma on what to do.

Ie. There is a cure, but it involves transforming the person into an
ethereal plane. Some elect to do that; other not.

Ie. The medical foundation they founded has a cure, but it is also crucially
needed for a dying race on a doomed world. They elect to give it up and go
back to cold sleep.

Etc etc.

 

[mike wightman]

Found it

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=46;t=000007

14) In the back of COACC there was an advertisement for an adventure
called "Flashback". Loren has commented that this was one of your projects but
that nothing ever came of it. Was anything ever put together for it? Is there
any hope for it ever seeing the light of day? It always seemed like a really
great idea to me.

Flashback was a concept (GDW commonly titled projects before there was
ever a manuscript). It transformed into Fast Forward (which I would still like to
do).

Basically, it is

In the early days of the Rule of man, a group/ship crew, rather large...
Gets a big blast of radiation and elects to go into cold sleep until a cure
can be found. Some few come out from time to time to check on things,
and manage to be present at the major events in history. Each time they come
out, there is a moral dilemma on what to do.

Ie. There is a cure, but it involves transforming the person into an
ethereal plane. Some elect to do that; other not.

Ie. The medical foundation they founded has a cure, but it is also crucially
needed for a dying race on a doomed world. They elect to give it up and go
back to cold sleep.

Etc etc.

 

[mike wightman]

Found it

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=46;t=000007

14) In the back of COACC there was an advertisement for an adventure
called "Flashback". Loren has commented that this was one of your projects but
that nothing ever came of it. Was anything ever put together for it? Is there
any hope for it ever seeing the light of day? It always seemed like a really
great idea to me.

Flashback was a concept (GDW commonly titled projects before there was
ever a manuscript). It transformed into Fast Forward (which I would still like to
do).

Basically, it is

In the early days of the Rule of man, a group/ship crew, rather large...
Gets a big blast of radiation and elects to go into cold sleep until a cure
can be found. Some few come out from time to time to check on things,
and manage to be present at the major events in history. Each time they come
out, there is a moral dilemma on what to do.

Ie. There is a cure, but it involves transforming the person into an
ethereal plane. Some elect to do that; other not.

Ie. The medical foundation they founded has a cure, but it is also crucially
needed for a dying race on a doomed world. They elect to give it up and go
back to cold sleep.

Etc etc.

 

[jfetters]

I had totally forgotten about this (mainly since I didn't bother to look at the copy of COACC on the CDROM...).

I remember having a campaign idea like this, but it just never ended up happening. Then I remember seeing this ad and thinking how cool it could be, what a great concept, can't wait for it to come out, etc.

But like most of the interesting MT ideas, it never got produced/released.

 

[jfetters]

I had totally forgotten about this (mainly since I didn't bother to look at the copy of COACC on the CDROM...).

I remember having a campaign idea like this, but it just never ended up happening. Then I remember seeing this ad and thinking how cool it could be, what a great concept, can't wait for it to come out, etc.

But like most of the interesting MT ideas, it never got produced/released.

 

[jfetters]

I had totally forgotten about this (mainly since I didn't bother to look at the copy of COACC on the CDROM...).

I remember having a campaign idea like this, but it just never ended up happening. Then I remember seeing this ad and thinking how cool it could be, what a great concept, can't wait for it to come out, etc.

But like most of the interesting MT ideas, it never got produced/released.

 

[Starviking]

Perhaps my memory's playing tricks on me - but didn't this outline also involve an Ancients' Ship?

Starviking

 

[Starviking]

Perhaps my memory's playing tricks on me - but didn't this outline also involve an Ancients' Ship?

Starviking