Questions about the Primordials

[Procopius]

Just an FYI:

The Galaxy Map & Secret Appendix to the IISS Second Survey on the T5 disc does mention and label "Core Sophonts" . . .

(Whatever they might be).

!!!

 

[Orr]

(To make matters worse, any apparent evil intent on the part of the "sparklers" is simply becaue of their intense curiousity / absentmindeness attributes.)

I dug out and re-read Knightfall yesterday concentrating on the section detailing the Shimmering City - which I've been stupidly calling the "Shining" city. It's very evocative and makes me wish my groups had either run the sourcebook's campaign or stolen the Shimmering City for our own campaigns.

Anyway, while exploring the PCs have a chance of accessing a 3D, psionic, video library of sorts. Several recordings are described and one is rather interesting when we remember Mr. Fugate's later remarks concerning "Baddies from the Core". (I don't think quoting a portion of that recording's would violate the "fair use" concept but, if it does, will the mods immediately edit my post please?)

Here's the description:

One interesting scene shows the large creatures bringing a multitude of exotic plants and animals into areas 10 through 15. The larger creatures spend considerable time doing strange things to these poor plants and animals, in some cases torturing them and telekinectically killing them.
Referee: The primordials are doing basic research on these plants and animals. They don't mean any harm, but they curious and to find out the things they need to know sometimes harms their specimens.

(The bolded part is mine.)

The primordials certainly are made to order to be Mr. Fugate's "Baddies from the Core". They come across part of a Core Expedition and immediately begin disassembling and dismantling the people and ships they've met out of absentminded curiosity while their "super-psionics" play merry hell with the Zho's command structure. It could all really snowball from there.

The two stories really fit neatly together. Who knows, perhaps both ideas even came about at roughly the same time?

Oh, and about the "Why do need a teleportation device? question. In another video, the smaller creatures don't exhibit the same telekinesis and teleportation powers the larger creatures do.

 

[Procopius]

Most interesting, thanks, Orr. I would have loved to see how this developed if GDW/DGP had ended up running with it, though I find the Empress Wave plenty fascinating as well.

(Totally unrelated question: does the 1248 material for Traveller have any system-dependent information, or in the fullness of time will T5 cover it all?)

 

[Hyphen]

Beats me. We use books-on-tape despite being able to read because audio books are convenient in some situations. (Audio books also are helpful for disabled people, although I don't think the Artifact is a teleportation "crutch" of sorts.)[/I]!

Maybe old Primordial suffer aging rolls as PCs do, only it affects their Psi strength? It's the equivalent of a hearing aid or walking frame... "And get those damn kids off my lawn!"

;-)

"Teleportation Cricket!" now there's a concept I'll have to mull over... can it be a coincidence that Twenty-Twenty cricket is abbreviated "T20"?? I think not!!

 

[Orr]

(Totally unrelated question: does the 1248 material for Traveller have any system-dependent information, or in the fullness of time will T5 cover it all?)

Don't know about T5's plans, but M:1248 is system free. It was deliberately written to be so.

Whether you like it's "solution" or not is another question.