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Need Help Finding a Planet

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AlHazred

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So, I want to do a plot IMTU inspired by "The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution" by Christopher Cherniak (in which content is discovered through AI research that causes catatonia in humans) and "BLIT" by David Langford (and the sequels - in which images can be generated by computer which cause humans who see them to die). The idea is the motif of harmful sensation, where physical and/or mental trauma results from what would ordinarily be benign sensations.

My idea was to find a world currently under interdiction, with a reasonable tech level/population. I've been looking using the brute force method, and it hasn't really borne good fruit. It should be a world in the Spinward Marches, or maybe Gvurrdon Trojan Reach, or Deneb sector. So, I ask the collective, does anyone have any recommendations?
 
Greylond said:
Define "Reasonable Tech/Population Level"... :)
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Ah, well, I can see that was a little vague. It needs to have a high enough tech level where computer systems are developed. Ideally, it would be in the 11-12 range, but I suppose I could make it work as low as 9. My version of the 3I has strange gaps in technological development due to undue political and cultural influence; my PCs would buy a technology track currently undeveloped on other worlds arising on an interdicted planet.

Population should be dense enough to carry such a memetic infection through ordinary contact. A planet with a population in the tens of thousands would be too diffuse, I would think. Maybe a population of 5 or higher?
 
In the Spinward Marches:

Candory Hex:0336 C593634-8

You could rule that the Scout Service got it wrong and the TL is higher than listed.
 
Greylond said:
Maybe that's just the Propaganda Lies being spread by the IISS and backed up by the Naval Blockade... ;)
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Yeah sure. If you don't want to stick to canon, anything is possible. But in that case why bother searching canon for a suitable interdicted world? Why not just pick a world and change it to suit the purpose?


Hans
 
rvolz said:
So, I want to do a plot IMTU inspired by "The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution" by Christopher Cherniak (in which content is discovered through AI research that causes catatonia in humans) and "BLIT" by David Langford (and the sequels - in which images can be generated by computer which cause humans who see them to die). The idea is the motif of harmful sensation, where physical and/or mental trauma results from what would ordinarily be benign sensations.
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While I don't have a recommendation for a planet, maybe check out Foreven and create your own?

Eclipse Phase also has a virus such as you are proposing called the "exsurgent virus" which one form, the basilisk hack, is very similar to what you describe.

The core rules are free from the designer Rob Boyle.
 
rvolz said:
My idea was to find a world currently under interdiction, with a reasonable tech level/population. I've been looking using the brute force method, and it hasn't really borne good fruit. It should be a world in the Spinward Marches, or maybe Gvurrdon Trojan Reach, or Deneb sector. So, I ask the collective, does anyone have any recommendations?
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When I need a world with certain characteristics, I find one that is a close fit and then modify it as needed. I also have created some from scratch, or drastically modified one when it was where I needed it.
 
From GDW TTA two opptions
Corfu 0202 X895674-8 Ag, nIn Reason - Medical/Virus
Zykoca 0604 X994542-6 Ag, nIn Reason - extremely xenophobic (attacked the Starport)

I don't know if Mongoose has changed or updated these
[hex numbers are subsector numbering]
 
In MT:IE (and IIRC in CT:SMC too, I cannot find mine right now), Lewis (SM3107) is listed as X 427402 D Red zone. In the traveller map it's listed as D 427402 7.

If you use the stats given in MT:IE, I think it could serve (pop is a little low, but pop multiple is 7, so being about 70000 people, and the planet is small enough, and has a large enough hydrographic percentage, as for the population density to be right).
 
McPerth said:
In MT:IE (and IIRC in CT:SMC too, I cannot find mine right now), Lewis (SM3107) is listed as X 427402 D Red zone. In the traveller map it's listed as D 427402 7.

If you use the stats given in MT:IE, I think it could serve (pop is a little low, but pop multiple is 7, so being about 70000 people, and the planet is small enough, and has a large enough hydrographic percentage, as for the population density to be right).
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In CT TTA this is a private reserve for the Tukera Family. The Red travel was given to drive off settlers. The settlers were sold land to fund an indiscretion of an earlier family member but the family wants the land back and they aren't selling (an unexploited hook in TTA :devil:).
 
MCEvans said:
In CT TTA [lewis/Aramis] is a private reserve for the Tukera Family. The Red travel was given to drive off settlers. The settlers were sold land to fund an indiscretion of an earlier family member but the family wants the land back and they aren't selling (an unexploited hook in TTA :devil:).
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Lewis belongs to a cadet branch of the Tukeras, not the main branch.


Hans
 
It occurs to me that an interdicted Droyne world like Candory might in fact be an ideal location for this "motif of harmful sensation" thing, inasmuch as the world may harbor unknown Ancient artifacts and the harmful sensation in question might be something that is utterly innocuous to the Droyne.

That might be one of the reasons for the interdict, assuming the Imperials know about it, or - since the world is a Droyne world and they aren't affected by it - it's possible for the Imperial authorities to be completely ignorant of the phenomenon.

I might point out real-world examples, the seizure issue with certain recent films being one such. Also, there are a handful of folk - myself included - who experience very unpleasant vertigo effects from certain imagery. Seems to create a dissonance between what the brain sees going on and what the inner ear's reporting, which - since my inner ears have been known to argue with each other and are therefore not fully trusted by my unconscious mind - can result in headaches or violent nausea.
 
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