			    TRAVELLER Digest 98

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) What happens if......	by "J. Dixon" <J.Dixon@massey.ac.nz>
  2) pocket empires.	by bc80076@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu
  3) Re: What happens if...	by Derek Smith <Derek_Smith.LOTUS@crd.lotus.com>
  4) General Silliness	by CyHiggin@aol.com
  5) TRAVELLER digest 97	by Hugh Foster <100326.446@compuserve.com>

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 94 13:12:06 +1200
From: "J. Dixon" <J.Dixon@massey.ac.nz>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: What happens if......
Message-ID: <9411110020.AA07018@cc-server4.massey.ac.nz>

Hi,

Question for all you really knowledgable types, what would happen
if a Jump drive is used when installed in the top floor of a high
rise building?

Just for fun I decided that the group I referee would meet a
society of cybernetically enhanced people on a planet devasted by
Virus.  The 'Leader' is a head in a large chamber with lots of
wires and tubes etc., although he appears sane he is quite mad and
has all the component parts of a space ship set up on the top floor
of a high rise building.  The party has been invited to the
'turning on' of his creation.

Ideas? Apart from nothing happens.

Jonathan Dixon
J.Dixon@massey.ac.nz

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 07:46:46 -0500 (EST)
From: bc80076@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: pocket empires.
Message-ID: <9411111246.AA00709@bingsun1>

Hi folks
    I am planning a alternate reality campaign and want to run it past
you peoples to see if you could see any major problems. It is on earth
during the new era. Earth was spared by a daring solsec agent who was
on a infected jump 6 ship. Just before coming out of jump he destroyed
the transponder,communicartions, and sensors. Before this he actually
wrote a explanation of the virus and how it was beeing passed on and
that his ship was infected. When he came out of jump the computer
realizng what he had done ordered him to fix it when he refused it let
him breath vaccum. Of course the solomani navy attacked the ship since
it had no transponder. When they sent a search team in the computer
attempted to kill them. Eventaualy they found the note. So the
computer was isolated and tested and it came back positve. Now Terra
had maybe 5 days till the next infected high jump ship could make it
in. Quickly they shut off transponders and rerouted sensors and
communication. When the infected ships appeared in system they were
attacked. This didn't stop small outbreaks of the virus but a complete
and total collapse was prevented. THis doesn't mean the last 70 years
have been easy. They have been fighting a constant battle with vampire
fleets and earths resources aren't what they used to be. eventually
becxause of isolation and constant combat with vampire ships its
pulled the tech down to tech level 12. Terra is now beggining to think
about expansion and a new terran empire.
	Let me know if you see any glaring flaws in this outline. I
have a bit of time to do modifications. 

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Date: 11 Nov 94  9:54:20 ES
From: Derek Smith <Derek_Smith.LOTUS@crd.lotus.com>
To: traveller <traveller@MPGN.COM>
Subject: Re: What happens if...
Message-ID: <9411111502.AA03214@internet1.lotus.com>

J.Dixon wrote:
>Question for all you really knowledgable types, what would happen
>if a Jump drive is used when installed in the top floor of a high
>rise building?

How about the mother of all misjumps?

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Derek Smith - Lotus Development Corporation - Release Engineering

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 09:56:42 -0500
From: CyHiggin@aol.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: General Silliness
Message-ID: <941111095641_5418804@aol.com>

From: ehenry@Newbridge.COM (Ethan Henry)

>>Their main use in a game plot is a victims, I'm afraid. Imperial megacorps
love
>>to perscute the little buggers (see Research Station something-or-other)
and
>>they make a splendid downtrodden group for moral PCs to fight for.
>>Unfortunately, my bunch treat them as "space hobbits" and laugh at them.
Heigh
>>ho!

>Trouble is, you can never be sure whether that's a useless chirper, or
>Grandfather taking a vacation in the real universe... well, except
>for the disintegrator GrandFather carries around. :)

Disintegrator?  GrandFather doesn't NEED no stinkin' distintegrator! 
Disintegrators are for mere mortals...

From: Mark Clark <markc@brahms.udel.edu>

>I have no idea what GDW plans to do with Pluto, but in our campaign it was
>the home of the Mi-Go, the Fungi from Yuggoth, from the Call of Cthulhu
>game.  Pluto is Yuggoth, after all, according to H. P. Lovecraft.

I like this guy,  He thinks the way I do.  Someday someone is going to 
discover what's really out in the "Abyss Rift" in Lanth-Vilis subsectors --
 then I'll have to figure out how to do sanity checks in TNE.  And Dark 
Conspiracy provides all kinds of neat stuff, already in the same rules 
format... (I've also decided that DarkTek makes good bioengineered 
equipment [a la Pentapods] if you strip off the more unrealistic 
"horror-effect" user penalties).

>The real reason for the Solomani Rim War was that the Imperium had 
>learned that the local Solomani authorities had discovered the Mi-Go base 
>and were planning to use occult powers to bring back the Great Old 
>Ones and enslave the universe.  That's why Pluto is a security zone.

I pegged the Mi-Go as a bunch of interstellar mafia/smugglers/slaver types 
operating on the fringes of the Vilani Empire -- they'd happily exploit 
defenseless primitives, but steered clear of the armed might of the Ziru 
Sirka.  Of course, they weren't above buying a corrupt provincial governor 
here and there... and their occult/psionic studies gave them an certain, 
shall we say... edge in dealing with such individuals.  I saw Pluto as an 
outpost, at best, not their home world (as Lovecraft implied in "The 
Whisperer in the Dark".  Unfortunately for them, the Terrans had better 
tech than the Vilani, and too many psionically aware individuals -- 
something about living on a planet with so many imprisoned Great Old Ones...

Alternatively, the Impies discovered the Palainian outpost on Pluto... and 
were still trying to figure out how to talk to them when the Solomani
reclaimed Terra.

>Makes sense when you think about it - the Solomani Party is the nearest 
>thing Traveller has to a bunch of cultists.

Have you ever considered how much Yaskaydroy [sic] (Grandfather) 
resembles a Great Old One?  I mean, he's weirdly non-human, has vast 
mental powers, is "imprisoned" in a pocket universe, has a non-human 
servitor race with "occult" (psionic) powers that worships him and would 
serve his every whim, leaves statues of himself littering unfathomable 
ruins of non-Euclidean geometry (okay, so it  was a robot...), has human 
and Vargr cultists who engage in rather anti-social behaviors in his name,
and his benevolence is questionable -- he destroyed whole worlds to get at
his enemies, and took human beings and used them for lab rats...
So what's Cthulhu got that Yaskaydroy doesn't?  Better press?  
Let's invent a few moldy old occult tomes from minor race home planets 
around the Imperium that rave about Yaskaydroy.

Let's see... I do have Lovecraft's starfish-headed aliens wandering around 
the fringes of the Imperium -- the IISS has classified them as "just another
minor race".  They haven't noticed that the Pentastrians (as I dubbed them)
are even more widely scattered than the Droyne, as most Pent worlds are 
far beyond the borders of the Imperium.  The Zhos and the various Vargr
states
 haven't caught on either, because the lot of them haven't correlated all the

minor races in their territories.

The Mi-Go fooled around causing a lot of trouble during the Long Night, but
vanished from Known Space when the various states got back on their feet --
they don't like to take on organized navies.  With the Collapse, however....

As for "multi-genre roleplaying" <grin>, I've been wondering how the Vampire
clans would have followed the Terran diaspora to the stars...  Just
daydreaming,
mind you, nothing serious.  I wouldn't really do such a thing -- trust me!
:-)


                                                                        --
Cynthia




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Date: 11 Nov 94 14:02:22 EST
From: Hugh Foster <100326.446@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:traveller@mpgn.com" <traveller@MPGN.COM>
Subject: TRAVELLER digest 97
Message-ID: <941111190221_100326.446_BHB52-1@CompuServe.COM>

TRAVELLER digest 97

>>My laser's EI is 0.1 MJ per shot and I intend to have 50 shot power pack
(with
rof 2). So, what should I do? <<

Cheat.

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