			    TRAVELLER Digest 87

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Classic Traveller Play by E-Mail	by Mark Clark <markc@brahms.udel.edu>
  2) Re: Maggarts vs, azhanti	by "Mary E. Poynter" <3I4KQ7X@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
  3) Leisure Games address	by Alan Huscroft <A.A.F.Huscroft@reading.ac.uk>
  4) Ship Classification System	by Wesley.Esser@hd62.haledorr.com
  5) Capital System Data	by Mark Fletcher <mf1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
  6) Capital/Black Curtain	by Mark Fletcher <mf1@st-andrews.ac.uk>

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 19:42:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Clark <markc@brahms.udel.edu>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Classic Traveller Play by E-Mail
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9410301957.A21307-0100000@brahms.udel.edu>

There are still openings in my CT PBEM game.  The player characters wish 
to hire a ship's gunner, and I also can accomodate characters with some 
other background.  Please contact me as soon as possible if you wish to 
join in the game.

By the way, if you have tried to contact me before and got no reply, 
please try again.  I have been having problems with my e-mail not being 
routed properly recently.

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Date:         Sun, 30 Oct 94 21:45:28 EST
From: "Mary E. Poynter" <3I4KQ7X@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Re: Maggarts vs, azhanti
Message-ID:   <941030.214528.EST.3I4KQ7X@CMUVM>

Meson Screen? Hmmm...it would seem that playing this thing at 4 o'clock in
the morning wasn't such a hot idea...
  I'm going to sucker my friend Dave into restaging this fight the RIGHT way,
and post the COMPLETE results. I have a feeling it will come out differently
this time.
   Oh, and by the way, "Mary E. Poynter" is actually Allen Shock, misusing yet
another account, this time my mother-in-law's. (see. mother-in-laws are good
for SOMETHING...)

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 09:27:56 GMT
From: Alan Huscroft <A.A.F.Huscroft@reading.ac.uk>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Leisure Games address
Message-ID: <27691.9410310927@suma1>

I saw a request for the address of Leisure Games, a retailer of Traveller
miniatures in the UK, so here it is.  I don't have any connection to this
establishment; I'm just passing on information.

Leisure Games
91 Ballards Lane
Finchley
London
N3 1XY

Telephone: 081 346 2327

Mail order welcomed.  Send stamped SAE for list (4 IRCs overseas).

--
Alan Huscroft     A.A.F.Huscroft@reading.ac.uk

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 05:13:40 -0500
From: Wesley.Esser@hd62.haledorr.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Ship Classification System
Message-ID: <"239*/G=Wesley/S=Esser/OU=hd62/O=hale and
dorr/PRMD=haledorr/ADMD=mci/C=US/"@MHS>

A while back (before my system mailpurge) someone submitted a
fairly comprehensive system for classifying ships by mission. 
Coul someone let me know which digest that was in, or possibly
even mail me a copy?  Thanks a heap!
Wes
wesley.esser@hd62.haledorr.com

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:39:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark Fletcher <mf1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
To: Traveller <traveller@MPGN.COM>, Xboat <xboat@MPGN.COM>
Subject: Capital System Data
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9410311435.B16501-0100000@pasta>

While UWP and Extended UWP data for Capital has been published, Noone has 
ever produced a system profile for Capital (I checked with GDW). Below is 
what I have generated for Capital circa 1115. Use it as you wish. It 
appears to be the only semi-official data available.


The Capital System
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N.B.  There will be a *couple* of errors in the following document due to 
      inaccuracies:

(1) I dont know the name of Capitals sun, so I called it Sylea.
(2) DGP lists Capital as M0V, wheras GDW lists Capital as G0V in the 
    Imperial Encyclopedia. I'll agree with GDW on this one.

Finally if you dont like the names feel free to change them.

ORBIT         NAME                  UWP                 REMARKS

PRIMARY       SYLEA                 G0V    
 1            SHULLIGAAM            Y100000-0
 2            DAGLL                 G530226-E           Lo Mi
      1       RING SYSTEM           YR00000-0
      3       RING SYSTEM           YR00000-0
      8       SOLITARRAN            Y100000-0
 3            CAPITAL               A586A9B-F           Hi Cx
      65      TON VORN              AS8396B-F           Nv Hi Sc 
 4            COURASIIS             Small GG            Size 78
      8       FIRSTBORN             G50026A-E
      9       TALSWEI               G200328-E
      10      PHLEBUS               Y320000-0
      125     AURALIN               G674668-F           Co Mr Nv
 5            VALAIND               Large GG            Size 206
      3       TALBECK               Y4A0000-0
      4       PEROSTECK             Y420000-0
      7       BALVEDA               Y400000-0
      9       MORGAN                Y542000-0
      20      LA                    Y330000-0
      30      SHUSHADAAL            Y300000-0
      55      MOTE                  Y100000-0
 6            LAAGLANAIS            Large GG            Size 166
      5       LAVEL                 Y300000-0
      6       CALRISSA              Y300000-0
      8       MARAIN                H10011B-F           Sc Re
      13      BURASHAAG             Y511000-0    
      40      GRIBBONS MOON         F854568-E           Ic Nv
 7.4          MARSHALLS ROCK        G53441A-E           In Mi
 8            DULAAM                Large GG            Size 145
      1       RING SYSTEM           YR00000-0
      2       RING SYSTEM           YR00000-0
      3       RING SYSTEM           YR00000-0
      4       RING SYSTEM           YR00000-0 
 9            MINGAYE               F214619-F           Nv Re
 10           CLAYN                 Small GG            Size 60

NOTES:

ORBITAL INSTALLATIONS:

Several habitats, Grav cities, and factories orbit above Capital. The 
largest habitat, Ton Vorn, serves as Capitals main highport. Ton Vorn is 
Capitals "artificial moon", a ball of rock 400km across orbiting Capital 
at a distance of 497,000km. Ton Vorn, was created to address the growing 
volume of shipping and the influx of immigrants in the founding years of 
the Imperium. Dragged from the systems Oort Cloud in 148, and deemed 
habitable in 301, Ton Vorn is over 814 years old and is a testament to 
the engineering skills of the Empire.

Home to over five billion citizens, Ton Vorn is one of the wonders of the 
sector to visit. 

THE INNER SYSTEM:

Shulligaam, the innermost planet lies uninhabited, and is mainly ignored 
save the occsional probe to map its surface.
Dagll a settlement started during the Second Imperium, is home to a few 
rugged miners who prospect over the surface and in the rings in search of 
heavy materials.

CAPITAL:

See Travellers Digest No 9 (FACT ALERT: I dont have TD:9!!)

THE OUTER SYSTEM:

Courasiis, the first of Capitals five Gas Giants, sports a few 
settlements on some of its smaller moons. Auralin however claims its 
roots from the first Imperium, when Vilani colonists used Corasiis as a 
refuelling point. Today Auralin is a major Military and Naval base, as 
has a small research lab devoted to weapons research.

Valaind, "The Great One" in High Sylean is Capitals largest GG, dwarfing 
Sols own Jupiter. Valaind is one of the brightest objects in Capitals 
night sky. Valaind and its moons are rarely visited, yet there are still 
a couple of old bases on Morgan. Today Valaind is only visited by the 
pleasure cruisers, and is home to the "Great Race". The "Great Race" is 
the systems biggest sporting events, held every Ten years. Competitors 
race in ships round Valaind's seven moons, and in a thrilling climax have 
to slingshot round the GG's upper atmosphere towards Capital.

Laaglanais, the third GG has a small meteorlogical research base on 
Marain, and is generally avoided. Gribbons moon is a major production 
centre for the system, manufacturing H2 fuel and Hi-tech superconductor 
components.

Marshalls Rock, a captured planet, is mineral rich, having large deposits of
iron. 

Dulaam, fourth of the GG's is similar to Sols Uranus in that both have 
severe axial tilt. This resulted in the breakup of Dulaams four moons, 
which now form the spectacular rings. However this has thought to have 
been done by the Ancients, during the Final War. Theorists believe that 
there may be ancient artifacts in the rings, although none have been 
found, yet.

Mingaye is an important Naval base and research estabishment. It is 
interdicted to all civilian traffic.

Clayn, is Capitals outermost planet, a solitary GG used by the navy for 
refueling.

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I hope to expand on this information in a later posting.
_________________________________________________________________________
|"To me cool is about knowing who you    |  Mark Fletcher,              |
| are and liking who you are and walking |  University of St Andrews,   |
| without fear of who you are, with no   |  Scotland.                   | 
| baggage, no mask."                     |  (mf1@st-andrews.ac.uk)      |
|                      Bono.             |                              |
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:45:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark Fletcher <mf1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Capital/Black Curtain
Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9410311434.C16501-0100000@pasta>

> 
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 13:52:16 +1523847 (CST)
> From: Grant Sinclair <grant@cleese.apana.org.au>
> To: traveller@MPGN.COM
> Subject: Capital/Black Curtain
> Message-ID: <199410300322.AA17729@cleese.apana.org.au>
> 
> Loren appeared to be looking for official Capital UWPs for somebody 
> named Mark.

Got the info, cheeers Grant!
 
> P.S. My 2 cents worth on the Black Curtain comes from the brain 
> transplant bit. Virus develops a advanced CPU and replaces the brain of 
> Lucan, or a Strephon clone, with it, and no-one can tell, externally.  
> Or else physically replaces parts of the named brain with some computer 
> circuitry.  That way, Virus "infects" a human, without actually having 
> to use the human's brain as a CPU, which seems impossible (don't start 
> that thread up again).  And once Lucan/Strephon done, why stop there?  
> Clone the rest of the pre-assassination Imperial family and "infect" 
> them too?  The rest of the planetary population?  Maybe Virus tries 
> kidnapping humans from worlds outside the Black Curtain to do fiendish
> brain experiments.  Maybe the parts of the brain the circuitry is 
> attached to keeps dying off, and the Vampire ships have to keep getting 
> more people as sources of cranial matter on (a bit like the "Red Dwarf" 
> episode called Psirens).  Once Virus gets really insane, the humans 
> get programmed to stand around all day juggling and stuff, like a 
> warped Imperial court (sicker suggestions omitted for obvious reasons).  
> If there is more than one Virus there, they have endless battles, using 
> the humans as soldiers and regarding them as disposable, merely things
> that are useful for carrying weapons from one place to 

In my scenario Virus infects Capitals datanet causing a freak mutation 
which makes it nonsuicidal (Hey! GDW got away with it. Remember 
Grandfather). The Virus infects a supercomputer called NEXUS. NEXUS has 
access to all the economic and sociological information that the Imperium 
has to offer. NEXUS was created to predict economic and social trends in 
the Imperium, kinda like a computer version of Hari Seldon, except much 
better. NEXUS is a very old computer, and is spread out in nodes over 
Capitals datanet. Consequently, it has a lot of differnt components in it 
ranging from TL12 superconductors to TL15 synaptic brains. One of the 
components, housed in INI's HQ is a couple of Cymbeline chips hooked up 
to a large database. NEXUS becomes alive, takes over Capital because it 
is Capitals datanet (practically) and starts running things its own way. 
NEXUS wishes to rebuild the Empire under its own vision, which 
unfortunately is a bit warped.

Hope that is of help.

Mark Fletcher.


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