Hey All. New to the Forums. Thought I would start out with an idea I am developing for a single system adventure.
I am running Mongoose Traveller rules and setting but mostly ignoring the history and maps of the traveller universe. I really want to make use of all of the great procedural generation stuff in the books and that includes making my own world and subsectors.
The idea I had was basically recreating the experience of colonists coming to the West Indies in the 16th and 17th century. There is a remote star system called Amerigo (8 parsecs away from the nearest inhabited system) with one very earth-like world and a large and dense asteroid field. The system is special in that it has a very large amount of uraninite(sold as radioactives) readily available on both the planet and in the asteroids themselves. There is no official government claim on this system so everyone has a hand here. Plenty of government run and independent settlements scattered throughout the system. (The idea is that the world is like the North American mainland and the asteroids are the Caribbean islands)
Because the system is so far away the only way to get there is by chartered superfreighter. The freighter is loaded up with passengers and their ships and colonization supplies and the whole trip takes about a month. To add a little bit of interest to the trip, all the freighter have ton stop half-way to refuel at a conveniently located stellar nursery.
There I was going to have the freighter captain tell any passengers who have ships with fuel scoops to get out and start collecting as much fuel as they can. The hydrogen gas is too scattered for the freighter to effectively gather it itself. To turn it into a real encounter the captain tells everyone out there that whoever brings back the most fuel will win whatever surplus supplies are left when they reach the Amerigo system. She will also remind them that any participants who fall victim to "accidents" during the competition will have their possessions added to the prize.
Anyway that is all I have so far. Any comments or ideas, or does this all sound really unoriginal and contrived?
I am running Mongoose Traveller rules and setting but mostly ignoring the history and maps of the traveller universe. I really want to make use of all of the great procedural generation stuff in the books and that includes making my own world and subsectors.
The idea I had was basically recreating the experience of colonists coming to the West Indies in the 16th and 17th century. There is a remote star system called Amerigo (8 parsecs away from the nearest inhabited system) with one very earth-like world and a large and dense asteroid field. The system is special in that it has a very large amount of uraninite(sold as radioactives) readily available on both the planet and in the asteroids themselves. There is no official government claim on this system so everyone has a hand here. Plenty of government run and independent settlements scattered throughout the system. (The idea is that the world is like the North American mainland and the asteroids are the Caribbean islands)
Because the system is so far away the only way to get there is by chartered superfreighter. The freighter is loaded up with passengers and their ships and colonization supplies and the whole trip takes about a month. To add a little bit of interest to the trip, all the freighter have ton stop half-way to refuel at a conveniently located stellar nursery.
There I was going to have the freighter captain tell any passengers who have ships with fuel scoops to get out and start collecting as much fuel as they can. The hydrogen gas is too scattered for the freighter to effectively gather it itself. To turn it into a real encounter the captain tells everyone out there that whoever brings back the most fuel will win whatever surplus supplies are left when they reach the Amerigo system. She will also remind them that any participants who fall victim to "accidents" during the competition will have their possessions added to the prize.
Anyway that is all I have so far. Any comments or ideas, or does this all sound really unoriginal and contrived?
Also, what about the shipping gold back to the homeland thing, and the growth in piracy, the flood of territorial claims and rival explorers/settlers/plunderers ... is it your new mineral that kickstarts that aspect of the setting?
