One of today's headlines said that Humans could be wiped out.
Millions dying in moments! Rescue efforts gone completely haywire! Human Sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Has anyone had a Planetary Cataclysm in their game?
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One of today's headlines said that Humans could be wiped out.
Millions dying in moments! Rescue efforts gone completely haywire! Human Sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Has anyone had a Planetary Cataclysm in their game?
Spinward Flow
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If Travellerwiki was operational, I could point you at Paya/Aramis/Spinward Marches as an example of a "recent" (by 1105) planetary scale cataclysm that wiped out 99% of the pre-disaster world population.
I will definitely look that up.
Time to start building an Ark. Oh! Wait, 250 million years. I guess it can wait until this weekend. 
Other news- At the speed the moon is moving away from Earth (3.8 centimeters a year), it would be completely out of Earth's orbit in 50 billion years.
Other news- At the speed the moon is moving away from Earth (3.8 centimeters a year), it would be completely out of Earth's orbit in 50 billion years.
... or there was that disaster 24 years ago with the exploding nuclear waste... big TV series documentary about it.Time to start building an Ark. Oh! Wait, 250 million years. I guess it can wait until this weekend.
Other news- At the speed the moon is moving away from Earth (3.8 centimeters a year), it would be completely out of Earth's orbit in 50 billion years.
Just fail your goal in the Critical Vector AZ (JTAS 20, pages 6-9) and you'll have one...
Not to talk about the man-made ones in MT:HT...
Spinward Flow
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Spinward Flow
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True, but it's sufficiently ancient history (-924) that it can hardly be called a "recent" planetary scale cataclysm by 1105+.
Interstellar empire scale cataclysm ...
RECENT ...
I really loved those Eagles. The original Modular Cutter.
Excuse me, but, wihtout denying your point, I don't see the word "recent" in the OP question:
And, after all, "recent" is relative to the time you're playing. A game based on the post Maghiz Darrian could make an interesting one...
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Spinward Flow
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INDEED!
The Sword Worlds didn't get their first settlement until -399 @ Gram, so the -923 to -900 milieu (smack dab in the middle of the Long Night
) would be a very isolated FEARFUL kind of Hard Times as the Maghiz spreads outwards at light speed, destroying the empire and civilization that the Darrians had built up to that point. 
I have the Space:1999 Technical Manual. some really nice stuff in there!
According to the Integrated Timeline, the Star Trigger happened almost 1,000 years before the 3rd Imperium was established.
