Need Generic News Items

[hunter]

One of the things we want to do once T20 is released is fire up regular TAS News Bulletin
notices on the website. We will be seeding these with bulletins that have a bearing on the OTU campaign storylines, but we want to have the bulk of them to bit more generic and tending to be seeds for possible adventure.

Any folks interested in trying their hand as a TAS reporter? Can't offer a whole lot, but we will give you the 'byline' and if you wish a link to your email address of website if we post the story to the website.

Hunter

 

[Ben W Bell]

I'm willing to give it a try once the game comes out.

 

[Simon Jester]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hunter:
One of the things we want to do once T20 is released is fire up regular TAS News Bulletin
notices on the website. We will be seeding these with bulletins that have a bearing on the OTU campaign storylines, but we want to have the bulk of them to bit more generic and tending to be seeds for possible adventure.

Any folks interested in trying their hand as a TAS reporter? Can't offer a whole lot, but we will give you the 'byline' and if you wish a link to your email address of website if we post the story to the website.

Hunter<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'd be willing to give it a try. This is just like the old TAS News in Challenge, right? one or two paragraphs, with some follow-on postings every now and then?

Simon Jester,
prospective muckraker-without-portfolio.



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Pick two.

 

[Jeff M. Hopper]

I'll take a crack at it.

Just let me know what the limits are that I need to work within. Things like preferred region, limitations on topics, things like that.

God, my buddy's looking over my shoulder and shouting out ideas for a Traveller version of The National Enquirer....

 

[Ron]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff M. Hopper:
I'll take a crack at it.
[...]
God, my buddy's looking over my shoulder and shouting out ideas for a Traveller version of The National Enquirer....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hey that would be a very cool idea! Instead of only having the thrustworthy but cold TNS, we could give some opportunity to the competition. Perhaps the Traveller Enquirer should not be considered a real competitor to the TNS as they act on very different markets, but I bet it will much more funny to read.

 

[Shadow Bear]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hunter:
One of the things we want to do once T20 is released is fire up regular TAS News Bulletin
notices on the website. We will be seeding these with bulletins that have a bearing on the OTU campaign storylines, but we want to have the bulk of them to bit more generic and tending to be seeds for possible adventure.

Any folks interested in trying their hand as a TAS reporter? Can't offer a whole lot, but we will give you the 'byline' and if you wish a link to your email address of website if we post the story to the website.

Hunter<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sounds good to me. I also would like to know what the limitations and standards you wish.

 

[solar_shipping]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hunter:
One of the things we want to do once T20 is released is fire up regular TAS News Bulletin

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Any folks interested in trying their hand as a TAS reporter? Can't offer a whole lot, but we will give you the 'byline' and if you wish a link to your email address of website if we post the story to the website.

Hunter<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I am quite intrested in writing some TNS articles for you. When do you require some by?

Darryl


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SOLSEC makes Echelon look like a joke!

 

[Antares Administration]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hunter:


Any folks interested in trying their hand as a TAS reporter? Can't offer a whole lot, but we will give you the 'byline' and if you wish a link to your email address of website if we post the story to the website.

Hunter<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hi, Hunter. I'd love to contribute a few items. Echoing a couple of folks above, do you have any guidelines for the TAS submissions?

AA

 

[Solo]

Sounds Fun.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Hey Hunter,

Actually, this would be a lot of fun. How often and how many minimum words per article are you looking for. I was on the Journalism staff in high school. When I think about this, there was an article in MegaTraveller Referee's Companion (a reprint of a Challenge article) that talked about using newspaper clippings for background fluff during adventures, and just rearrange things a bit (the names have been changed to protect the innocent, the guilty, and the writer from copyright infringement : ^ ). I get the Sunday Chicago Trib. I could probably have about five articles in a couple of hours. A car wreck could be an air/raft incident, a school superintendant retiring could be a sector administrator retiring, etc... The posibilities are limitless, and they will sound real if they are based on real circumstances.

Later,

Scout

 

[Spinward Scout]

Hunter,

You could assign a sector or subsector to each "correspondent". You could even set up a Yahoo group or something for accepting submissions. Let Yahoo do the grunt work of storing all of the submissions, then pull out the ones you want to post on the TAS page. Anyways, just some thoughts.

SCout

 

[Spinward Scout]

Duh! Ok, my fault - I guess it would probably be easier for Hunter to set up a new discussion directory for TAS submissions. : ^ )

Here are some ideas I just came up with for news services in the Galaxy and their real world equivalents:

TAS News - CNN
The Solomani Certainty - Pravda
The Gateway Outlook – much like the BBC news
Antares Position – Christian Science Monitor
CapitolSal’s Core Dogma! – Conspiracy Theories, etc…

Anybody else have any ideas?

Later,

Scout

[This message has been edited by ScoutCadet469 (edited 26 February 2002).]

 

[solar_shipping]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ScoutCadet469:

Here are some ideas I just came up with for news services in the Galaxy and their real world equivalents:

TAS News - CNN
The Solomani Certainty - Pravda
The Gateway Outlook – much like the BBC news
Antares Position – Christian Science Monitor
CapitolSal’s Core Dogma! – Conspiracy Theories, etc…

Anybody else have any ideas?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Firstly Citizen, you have the misaprehension that SolConFed is similar to the ancient facist/socialist regimes of the early/mid 20th century. You are of cause getting confused with the Zhodani!

Seriously, there are a few periodicals which would be more usefull for Traveller characters.

1. Shipping News (a bit like Lloyds)
2. Military Tech news (Janes)
3. Military actions (Soldier of Fortune)
4. Financial / Corperate news (Financial Times).

Regards
Darryl



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SOLSEC makes Echelon look like a joke!

 

[hunter]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ScoutCadet469:
Hey Hunter,

Actually, this would be a lot of fun. How often and how many minimum words per article are you looking for. I was on the Journalism staff in high school. When I think about this, there was an article in MegaTraveller Referee's Companion (a reprint of a Challenge article) that talked about using newspaper clippings for background fluff during adventures, and just rearrange things a bit (the names have been changed to protect the innocent, the guilty, and the writer from copyright infringement : ^ ). I get the Sunday Chicago Trib. I could probably have about five articles in a couple of hours. A car wreck could be an air/raft incident, a school superintendant retiring could be a sector administrator retiring, etc... The posibilities are limitless, and they will sound real if they are based on real circumstances.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Excellent! Thank you! I kept trying to figure out how to describe what I wanted. Hopefully they should also be useable as an adventure seed for enterprising Referees. They should not however have far reaching consequences or reprecussions. Preferably they will be related to a single world or nation on a world.

Hunter

 

[hunter]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ScoutCadet469:

TAS News - CNN
The Solomani Certainty - Pravda
The Gateway Outlook – much like the BBC news
Antares Position – Christian Science Monitor
CapitolSal’s Core Dogma! – Conspiracy Theories, etc…

Anybody else have any ideas?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Have one already you can use. The Imperial Planetological Society, and their annual Imperial Planetological magazine.

They do articles on exotic worlds, cultures, animals, plant life, etc...Highly respected, run by the nephew of former Emperor Styryx.


Hunter

 

[Spinward Scout]

Hey Hunter,

Is something like this what you are looking for? It's a rewriten article from The Planetary Society web page.

Scout

(similar article at www.planetary.org)
Excerpt from the Journal of the Imperial Planetological Society
Author: The Deneb Investigator Correspondent Hunter Gordon

IPS To Fund Array Refurbish

This week will begin the dismantling of the Arecibo Scanning Array in orbit high above Aramis. The Array, which was named after one of the receivers used in Terra's first attempt to contact sophonts from other systems, then called "extra-terrestrials," has been scanning space to coreward in an attempt to locate life beyond the Zhodani and Vargr borders. Now in it's 60th year, the Array will be dismantled and brought to Regina for refurbishing and upgrading. Once this refurbishment is completed, the Array will be taken back to Aramis and reassembled 500 miles above the surface of the planet. The Imperial Planetological Society is funding this endeavor in the hopes that some day intelligent beings outside our local group may be found and contacted.

[This message has been edited by ScoutCadet469 (edited 27 February 2002).]

[This message has been edited by ScoutCadet469 (edited 27 February 2002).]

 

[tjoneslo]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ScoutCadet469:
Hey Hunter,

Is something like this what you are looking for? It's a rewriten article from The Planetary Society web page.

Scout
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Hmmm. This suffers from same thing a few other JTAS articles do, bad science.

1) Why dismantle the array, transport it across several parsecs, do maintenance, and haul it back again? It would be so much cheaper to haul the workers and equipment to the array.

2) You don't want to put a sensitive radio telescope in orbit around high population planet. The radio noise from the world below drowns out any of the (really weak) signal you're listening for. Better place would be in orbit around the star, in opposition to the planet. This way the station is isolated (good for adventures). Better yet, put it in an otherwise empty system with a single red dwarf star, which would make it even more isolated).

The idea is perfect. I'm just complaining about the details.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Actually, the only reason I picked Aramis, is because I was at work (really, I was on a break, boss!) and didn't have access to any books. But actually, thinking about it, Aramis' population is all underground, right? Doesn't Aramis have a corrosive atmosphere or something? Anyways, just an example.

Later,

Scout

 

[Spinward Scout]

I prefer the term wierd science, myself.
: ^ )

Scout

 

[Cleon the Mad]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tjoneslo:
[Hmmm. This suffers from same thing a few other JTAS articles do, bad science.

1) Why dismantle the array, transport it across several parsecs, do maintenance, and haul it back again? It would be so much cheaper to haul the workers and equipment to the array.

[/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

If I may add my two centicredits to this, I see your point...but sometimes one can use the "bad science" to one's advantage. In this case, I'd leave it in...and see if the characters caught this also (why are they moving the array, why not just send a work crew...)...is this just a red herring...or is there some coverup...maybe the array NEEDS to be down so that it does not detect something at a specific time...or maybe someone somewhere is getting some kickback, simple graft, if they can have their factory work on it at their shop on their planet, instead of having a work crew sent...(okay, second one is weak...but I think you see my point)...if they miss this...oh well, in the background, whatever the GM planned to do with it happens...and then it may or may not tie into the player's actions later..



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