Classic Traveller Wonders

[kafka47]

What are some of the wonderous sights that your players/characters have been exposed to in the height of the Third Imperium. These can be natural, supernatural, technological, cultural or simply that was jaw dropping WOW!

 

[kafka47]

What are some of the wonderous sights that your players/characters have been exposed to in the height of the Third Imperium. These can be natural, supernatural, technological, cultural or simply that was jaw dropping WOW!

 

[Spinward Scout]

We had a few threads about this a while back. My favorite was when someone posted about Stilatio VII.

 

[Spinward Scout]

We had a few threads about this a while back. My favorite was when someone posted about Stilatio VII.

 

[kafka47]

Can find that thread, can you refresh my memory. Here I am not really thinking of devices left by the Ancients but especially natural wonders. Conversely, I would also open the thread up to real life encounters with the breathtaking spectacles that anyone has been party to.

 

[kafka47]

Can find that thread, can you refresh my memory. Here I am not really thinking of devices left by the Ancients but especially natural wonders. Conversely, I would also open the thread up to real life encounters with the breathtaking spectacles that anyone has been party to.

 

[Jeffr0]

I was working outside years ago. Maybe 2000.

I noticed a strange rainbow. It was much smaller than usual. It was high up and did not go down to the ground. On either end of the rainbow was a smudge of light. Then I noticed that the smudges connected the other way, too. There was a vague shimmering band of light that wrapped around the entire sky connecting the rainbow's base... and making the "vision" unbelieveably huge. You couldn't take it all in at once.

I was with some other people that saw it, too... so it wasn't an hallucination.

 

[Jeffr0]

I was working outside years ago. Maybe 2000.

I noticed a strange rainbow. It was much smaller than usual. It was high up and did not go down to the ground. On either end of the rainbow was a smudge of light. Then I noticed that the smudges connected the other way, too. There was a vague shimmering band of light that wrapped around the entire sky connecting the rainbow's base... and making the "vision" unbelieveably huge. You couldn't take it all in at once.

I was with some other people that saw it, too... so it wasn't an hallucination.

 

[rancke]

Heres an excerpt from my writeup of Ruie for JTAS Online:

Other Places of Interest

The TAS routinely works out lists of tourist attractions on every world they cover. By age-old tradition, the seven most spectacular of these become known as the wonders of the world in question, regardless of how many (or how few) actually merit such distinction. The list for Ruie is still subject to change as new discoveries are made, but at the moment, it consists of the Daccam Ruins in Nebelthorn, last remnant of an extinct race; Mount Feist near the original colony of Feistad, carved into the likeness of Feist II at a time when the colony still numbered fewer than 3,000 people; the Comors Canal, an almost 200-mile-long series of canals and waterways crossing the continent of Comors where it is thinnest; the Gemento Cathedral in Feistad, a towering edifice built entirely without the aid of grav machinery; the Boiling Sea, north of Jingar, where an undersea volcano actually makes the sea boil; Crystal Canyon, a fantastic landscape of weirdly shaped crystalline rock formations; and the Giant's Footprints, where unknown artists have carved what appear to be the footprints of a 100-foot-tall human into lava from a long-extinct volcano. [ http://jtas.sjgames.com/login/article.cgi?244 ]

Hans

 

[rancke]

Heres an excerpt from my writeup of Ruie for JTAS Online:

Other Places of Interest

The TAS routinely works out lists of tourist attractions on every world they cover. By age-old tradition, the seven most spectacular of these become known as the wonders of the world in question, regardless of how many (or how few) actually merit such distinction. The list for Ruie is still subject to change as new discoveries are made, but at the moment, it consists of the Daccam Ruins in Nebelthorn, last remnant of an extinct race; Mount Feist near the original colony of Feistad, carved into the likeness of Feist II at a time when the colony still numbered fewer than 3,000 people; the Comors Canal, an almost 200-mile-long series of canals and waterways crossing the continent of Comors where it is thinnest; the Gemento Cathedral in Feistad, a towering edifice built entirely without the aid of grav machinery; the Boiling Sea, north of Jingar, where an undersea volcano actually makes the sea boil; Crystal Canyon, a fantastic landscape of weirdly shaped crystalline rock formations; and the Giant's Footprints, where unknown artists have carved what appear to be the footprints of a 100-foot-tall human into lava from a long-extinct volcano. [ http://jtas.sjgames.com/login/article.cgi?244 ]

Hans