Which is your favorite OTU Milieu?
- Thread starter Golan2072
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Now this will have not only interesting results, but interesting options as well. Aside from the milieux mentioned here, what would you use as options?
I'm thinking about the following additions to the list for such a poll:
- Ziru Sirka
- Rule of man
- Long Night
- Ilelish Revolt
- Imperial Civil War
- Psionic Supressions
- Zhodani Core Expeditions
- Revolution instead of Rebellion (extrapolated from ProtoTraveller)
- Alternate Rebellion (Dulinor manages to take power)
- Virusless post-Hard Times
- Baddies Invade from the Core (TNE variant)
- 1200 post-TNE
I like it that 22 People like CT and 30 play it while:
5 like The New Era and 4 of us play in it
5 like The New Era and 4 of us play in it
CT for me. I wanted to like the grittiness of Hard Times, but found the death toll depressing.
mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
Was the 'which setting would you like to see developed' poll ever put together?
Suggestions:
the first star farers era
ancients - war of the ancients era
Earth 2050 through to first contact
Rule of man
Long Night
Milieu 400
Civil War
Psionic Suppression
5th Imperium
Galactic Imperium
Suggestions:
the first star farers era
ancients - war of the ancients era
Earth 2050 through to first contact
Rule of man
Long Night
Milieu 400
Civil War
Psionic Suppression
5th Imperium
Galactic Imperium
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grendelttroll
SOC-12
Check my sig for my answer. 
I use a slightly modified 1248, 4th Imperial setting.
Big differences IMTU are:
Unbeknownst to everyone other than the Cyms and the Viral packs, the modifications to the Cym chips that resulted in the Virus did not last past the 2nd generation. 99.9% of "Virus" IMTU are actually Cym chips as per Signal GK. Viral insanity comes from Cym series groups with no dominant Cym chip. While this slows the spread, as a chip now has to physically enter a system to take it over, it in no way makes them any less deadly or versatile. But it does allow for Cym PCs, and limits them to one "body" at a time.
The Empress wave is only a Psionic component, the Hard Radiation component having effectively died some 30k parsecs towards the core. One additional effect that is unknown to most of charted space is that any world that once held a Chirper Population, gains a Droyne population after the wave front passes through the system.
The 4th Imperium has just made an amazing breakthrough in drive systems, and a very small number of Hop 1 prototype drives have been made available to Emperor Averys hand picked agents to test and use in the course of their duties. The existence of the Hop drive prototypes is a very closely guarded secret known only to a very small handful of people in the 4th Imperium.
Finally, Grandfather lied. The war isn't over yet. There are still a few other Ancients out there...
Big differences IMTU are:
Unbeknownst to everyone other than the Cyms and the Viral packs, the modifications to the Cym chips that resulted in the Virus did not last past the 2nd generation. 99.9% of "Virus" IMTU are actually Cym chips as per Signal GK. Viral insanity comes from Cym series groups with no dominant Cym chip. While this slows the spread, as a chip now has to physically enter a system to take it over, it in no way makes them any less deadly or versatile. But it does allow for Cym PCs, and limits them to one "body" at a time.
The Empress wave is only a Psionic component, the Hard Radiation component having effectively died some 30k parsecs towards the core. One additional effect that is unknown to most of charted space is that any world that once held a Chirper Population, gains a Droyne population after the wave front passes through the system.
The 4th Imperium has just made an amazing breakthrough in drive systems, and a very small number of Hop 1 prototype drives have been made available to Emperor Averys hand picked agents to test and use in the course of their duties. The existence of the Hop drive prototypes is a very closely guarded secret known only to a very small handful of people in the 4th Imperium.
Finally, Grandfather lied. The war isn't over yet. There are still a few other Ancients out there...
grendelttroll
SOC-12
Nice. I almost do what you did.
The main change I made was that, rather than the 4th Imperium, it was the Darrian Confederation that is introducing the Hop drive. The Imperial Regency knows about it; they want it. This may be the motivating factor to drive them to war.......
mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
The Ancients war is still canonically taking place - MgT Secret of The Ancients explains all.
My favourite OTU variant is based on reverse-engineering and re-imagining the Dark Nebula boardgame:
http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=31971
http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=31971
I use the CT setting, but am looking at other stuff, atm playing MG T in the Trojan Reach with very little Imperial involvement apart from the odd DE
and a fairly small ship universe (biggest I've used is a 5 kt liner).
Regards
David
Nice. I almost do what you did.
The main change I made was that, rather than the 4th Imperium, it was the Darrian Confederation that is introducing the Hop drive. The Imperial Regency knows about it; they want it. This may be the motivating factor to drive them to war.......
That works as well, and I might just add the Darrian experimental hop to my game as well.
~Cryton
