TRAVELLER Digest 509

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) RE: Orrimot-class Logistics ship by "Bruce Johnson" <JOHNSON@tonic.pharm.arizona.edu>
  2) DGP/FASA/GDW by b.borich@genie.com
  3) RC: The League of the Imperial Way by James Kiley <tenzil@io.com>
  4) Splitting up sector files by Susan Marie Shock <34ZBTXQ@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
  5) FASA says "No" by Scott and Vivian Nolan <nolan@DGS.dgsys.com>

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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 17:14:05 MST7
From: "Bruce Johnson" <JOHNSON@tonic.pharm.arizona.edu>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: RE: Orrimot-class Logistics ship
Message-ID: <CA34E27766@tonic.pharm.Arizona.EDU>

Alvin sez'
>
> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 13:35:38 -0500 (EST)
> From: Alvin Plummer <alvin.plummer@sheridanc.on.ca>
> To: traveller@MPGN.COM
> Subject: TL C Orrimot-class Logistics ship

>
> Every starfleet needs a vast number of these unglamourous ships - although
> you never seem to see them in "Imperial Stars", "Strike Fleet", or any of the
> other popular VR entertainment programs in the Imperium.  Never mind
> that: without thousands and thousands of glorified cargo barges like these,
> the Imperial Navy would swiftly grind to a halt.
snip
> These ships are rarely seen in civilian service: the two large hamster cages
> used to mimic gravity is rather unpopular among merchants, and civilian
> fuel stations have rendered tanker jumpships a poor economic gamble.

Actually, since so many thousands (probably millions over the
years) of them have been made, I'd suspect that they'd be all over
the place, in most cases, modified beyond recognition.  Sort of like
liberty ships, or LST's after WWII. The tramp frieghters of the
spaceways...you know, the ones that leave an oil spots in your
starport after they leave ;-)

Never underestimate what people will latch onto as useful
transportation.  If they're so unpopular, surplus ones are dirt
cheap, probably cheaper than a free trader, maybe even cheaper than a
scout, but I doubt it. This is what are turned into bannana boats,
or copra freighters, or those freighters that ply the truly poor
backwaters of the imperium.

 I almost got to live in a LST (Landing Ship-Tank) that had been
converted to a coastal frieghter that had been converted to an oyster
boat that had been converted to a houseboat; but it would have meant
living in New York Harbor during the winter....yeeeesh.  But that's
+6probably what'll get done to most of these things.




Bruce Johnson
Information Technology/College of Pharmacy
The University of Arizona
johnson@tonic.pharm.arizona.edu


As if this place HAD any opinions...

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Date: Sat,  9 Dec 95 03:59:00 UTC 0000
From: b.borich@genie.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: DGP/FASA/GDW
Message-ID: <199512090420.AA172252836@relay1.geis.com>

    <No, DGP is NOT out there.  They went out of business. However, Roger
Sanger (Cyberodge), who haunts here on occasion bought the rights to their
product line.> Almost correct. Actually Roger bought DGP and is in the process
of producing some products.
    When he is ready with certain things everyone here should see an
anouncement.


    <The story I got from Sam Lewis...FASA...STRPG> Yeap, that's pretty much
the story they posted on GEnie, give or take a couple of details.


    <the need to eventually reconcile ye olde Classic fans, without
abandoning those who actually like the RC.> They've pretty much done that in
part with doing RSB (as I just noticed you stated).

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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 08:00:55 -0600 (CST)
From: James Kiley <tenzil@io.com>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: RC: The League of the Imperial Way
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951209075947.4711A-100000@pentagon.io.com>

THE LEAGUE OF THE IMPERIAL WAY
As can often be the case, the name of this party is rather
innocuous.  Their literature indicates a distanced reverence for
life before the Collapse and nostalgia for "the good old days"; they
occasionally host recreations of Imperial banquets and so forth.
As one gets past the introductory literature, however, it
becomes clear that, to the League, the most important aspect of
Imperial life was the human supremacy within the old Imperium.  This
view of history is a rather distorted one; it is more true, in fact,
to say that humans had their "supremacy" in what is now Coalition
Space during the Dark Years between the fall of the Imperium and the
birth of the Dawn League.
The League has its roots in a pair of Dawn League-era political
groups, the Fires of Dawn (founded on Fija) and Oriflamme's Humaniti
Alliance.  Both were responsible, in the Dawn League years, for
bills denying full citizenship rights to Schalli, Chirpers and
Droyne, Ithklur, and Hivers.  Such blatant racism was generally
voted down in planetary legislatures; those defeats served only to
further fire the zealots in the two groups.  As intersystem trade
and communication increased, both the Fires and the Alliance saw
each other as distant allies; they began cosponsoring events on other
worlds in the League and working closely on other projects.
The most dangerous and ambitious of these projects was an
attempt to release an engineered viral weapon upon the native Schalli
residents of Aubaine in early N.E. 1; the trio responsible
represented the top-level leadership of both groups, and was arrested
and convicted on charges of attempted terroristic attack in short
order.
A Luhtahlan woman named Sanlii Buckner has come to the fore
of the pro-human movement (as it is euphemistically called) since that
time.  Where the Fires and the Alliance were openly inflammatory,
Buckner's League of the Imperial Way is controlled, some might say
stealthy.
A fairly slick marketing campaign is in place on several of
the high-population worlds of the Coalition, inviting new members
to come and experience the "regalia and pageantry of the old Imperium";
the commercials and advertisements show only humans.  Recruitment
is low-key at first, as well; the League is seen by most non-members
as a social club.
Legislation put into place by the few RC Assembly members
under the sway of the League is more subtle than the laws its
predecessors tried to get into place. For instance, regulation of
high-security RC installations may soon be locked to the voiceprints
and palmprints of those allowed to enter, which will cause no end
of hassle for Schalli and Hivers;  some Centrist Leaguers have
suggested encouraging the RCN's support staff to come up with a
unified meal plan for Navy bases and ships, which could easily be
skewed toward human dietary necessity; and so on.
The modern League, then, is not generally seen as a xenophobic
or terrorist group, but rather as a social club.  Prejudice by
League members and of League actions is not overt but subtle; Buckner's
hope is to give nonhumans in the RC area a thousand little annoyances
rather than one spectacular firebombing.
Lastly, it should be noted that the Fires of Dawn does still
exist, though the Humaniti Alliance has crumbled.  The more radical
members of the Fires lost interest in Buckner's large-scale strategy
pretty early on, and are still playing at terrorism.  Rumors abound
that the Fires gets much of its funding from the League, but it is
unlikely that this can be proved.  Other rumors imply that numerous
small, anti-alien groups have received donations and guidance from
the League, but again, if such a thing is true, tracing it would
be difficult; Buckner knows when to hide her tracks.


December 9, 1995
James Kiley


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Date:         Sat, 09 Dec 95 11:53:32 EST
From: Susan Marie Shock <34ZBTXQ@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Splitting up sector files
Message-ID:   <951209.115628.EST.34ZBTXQ@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>

Many moons ago, I had downloaded a computer utility designed I beleive for
MegaTraveller or possibly CT that could take the standard sector files and
split them up into their component subsector files. I seem to have misplaced
this file, and would like to get it again. Can anyone refresh my memory as to
what this program is called and where it might be?

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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:12:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Scott and Vivian Nolan <nolan@DGS.dgsys.com>
To: Traveller Mailing List <traveller@MPGN.COM>
Subject: FASA says "No"
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951209131115.8334F-100000@DGS>


We can stop arguing about FASA.  They just sent me a response to my
request to save Traveller.  They said "No."

Scott

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