Ben W Bell
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Considering the span of the Third Imperium, what eras would people like information on playing in, or what times are their favourites? Just doing a small informal poll.ie Milieu 0, Golden Age, Rebellion, others.
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The campaign I worded on for a bit (but never got to run) was Year 1111. Just after the Fifth Frontier War, and after all of the CT Adventures (so I could use all the material in them for ideas - but not run the adventures themselves), but before MT. The edge of TL15. I never decided if I wanted to have Strephon be assassinated or not.
I'm also a fan of the early Interstellar Wars period. I like the low TL game and the SJG sourcebook for the period is excellent. The only drawback being I play T20 and the stats are for GURPS.
I'd love to see the Solomani Rim War period (Gateway era) expended more. Maybe a sourcebook describing the sectors a little closer to the front.
Possibly: Old Expanses, Diaspora, Solomani Rim, Alpha Crucis as a further domain sized area.
I'd love to see the Solomani Rim War period (Gateway era) expended more. Maybe a sourcebook describing the sectors a little closer to the front.
Possibly: Old Expanses, Diaspora, Solomani Rim, Alpha Crucis as a further domain sized area.
hunter
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That's not a bad idea...
zacharythefirst
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I'm working on a T20 1248 campaign set in the Verge sector--I'm going through and modifying/reducing each world based on the nifty rules they have in the 1248 book on what sort of damage and fallout all the TNE nastiness inflicted.
hunter
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When can we expect this...? :file_23:
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GypsyComet
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The area "retaken" by the Imperium during the Rim War, including areas of those four sectors and Daibei, is going to be culturally volatile. Heavily settled by various Terran polities and cultural groups on top of the Vilani base, then subjected to the Long Night (during which Terra may be the only contact, if any), followed by the rise of constantly dueling Terran and Sylean/Imperial cultural and political influences, culminating in the Autonomous Region-Confederation-Rim War Liberation progression. Then, a century later, it happens again with the Solomani advances during the Rebellion. Not to mention the external influences of the Aslan and Hivers and those treasure hunting meddlers the Geonee.
Official Golden Age-Rebellion Era writeups exist for Diaspora and the Rim. The Old Expanses has sporadic development, and Alpha Cru is one of the munged sectors from way back. Daibei has almost no Canon development to speak of.
BlackBat242
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Yes, the First Interstellar Wars period... the growing Terran exploration meets an old, senile Empire... run by Humans who have never heard of Terra!
I might like the Milieu 0 period,,, if I had ever seen the material for it.
Hmmm.... E-bay...
I might like the Milieu 0 period,,, if I had ever seen the material for it.
Hmmm.... E-bay...
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hunter
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GURPS: Interstellar Wars...
BlackBat242
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Yes, but I have so much else in my schedule that I don't have the time to convert everything to real Traveller.
When I have the money I do intend to get it, but I don't know how useful it would be in the foreign system.
When I have the money I do intend to get it, but I don't know how useful it would be in the foreign system.
There's a Milieu 0 PDF available you might like.
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=728&products_id=8197&
daryen
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Well, I have to say I am very partial to the Spinward States in 1248.
Aside from that, another era I am working to develop, if only for my own amusement, is the Darrian and Sword World Confederations somewhere around Year Zero to 150. The Imperium and Zhodani have influence, but are distant. Mostly it is just the Darrians and Sword Worlds trying to attain local supremecy ...
Aside from that, another era I am working to develop, if only for my own amusement, is the Darrian and Sword World Confederations somewhere around Year Zero to 150. The Imperium and Zhodani have influence, but are distant. Mostly it is just the Darrians and Sword Worlds trying to attain local supremecy ...
5th Frontier War to the decades following it. No Strephon killed. Virus exists but is a major annoyance rather than a major menace. A campaign involving a military pullback by the Imperium but at the same time an increased Imperial cultural & commercial expansion into the Beyond, Trojan Reaches, & The Vanguard Reaches. Mostly a campaign of free traders, corsairs, mercs, minor princes & other small fry manuvering for their small piece.
GypsyComet
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The "no assassination" variant is called GURPS: Traveller. The problem is that Virus would move even faster and inflict vastly higher casualties if released in the same design stages that Dulinor found it in on a whole and happy Imperium.
To make Virus "just an annoyance" means it has either gone through more refining or less (making it either less angry or less capable), and will still probably be an accidental release. I could easily see blaming some flavor of "Robots Rights" activists, or have a remote (*really* remote, like the Vanguard Reach) field test get out of hand, and now you've got an "AI Wave" spreading through Known Space. With various AI personalities emerging across a broader spectrum instead of having to evolve from killers, Virus violence is far more brushfire and far less genocidal than the official timeline.
Might be amusing, but SJG are the only ones who can publish in the No Rebellion variant...
I did sketch out a campaign in the aftermathof the Civil War and it really had a Firefly vibe, with two bitter divisions still unhappily resolved. Ex-military types all with grudges.
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