Confederate Space

[BlackBat242]

Well, in My Traveller, there is no rebellion, and Virus is just a piece of "Speculative Fiction".

But then, most of the adventures I have run were either in the Beyond/Vanguard Reaches in the between 1090 and 1105 (pre-5th Frontier War era) or in the Reaver's Deep sector just before the Long Night.

 

[rancke]

The Solos were too smart and too proud to adopt those new Imperial made transponders.:devil:

Well, what government would accept a demand that they install black boxes manufactured by another state in their ships? It's a ludicrous idea. I think that if the Imperium tried it, all the neighbours would respond by banning any ship WITH such transponders from entering their territory, leading to a massive pressure from the entire Imperial mercantile community to have this silly idea squashed right now!

My take on the ubiquity of the chips is that all the neighbors reverse-engineered their own versions and installed them in their own ships[*]. That worked great until they ran into a race of disembodied psionic entities whose natural habitat was transponder chips, regardless of where they had been manufactured.

[*] Because the technology was superior to previous transponder technology. Not unforgeable, the way the Imperial propaganda claimed, but still a big improvement.​

Hans