So what are the Solomani up to in 1248?
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EvilDrGanymede
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"Blake! There's a flight of rickety spindly Federation ships suspended by strings coming towards us on an attack vector!"Originally posted by BMonnery:
Great! Is Servalan President?
See http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/SevenCyc/F.html
Bryn [/QB]
(but seriously, I love Blake's 7. Great series).
Now go write up the Liberator in CT, FF&S, and T20 stats
I want a rational, identifiablly 'terran/human/decent' group in the Rim region, with acess to the Rim for those exploration campaigns.
The Terrans are more than just bad guys - I expect that some people will want to play them (!) so they'll be more palatable than space nazis.
The Terrans are more than just bad guys - I expect that some people will want to play them (!) so they'll be more palatable than space nazis.
Liam Devlin
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Originally posted by Starpilot:
why thank you, CG!<nods> memory adjusted!!!Originally Harold Hale, actually.
I take it the Terran Federation is based around Earth, wheras the Solomani are staging out of Home? How are the Vegans getting along with their new neighbours? Please tell me there was a follow-up nuke of the Cymbeline chip homeworld so we need never deal with that nonsense again...
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EvilDrGanymede
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That's an erm 'interesting' approach you have there - advocating species-wide genocide to prevent others from taking the race in question and manipulating them to turn them into a weapon. It certainly sets a dangerous precedent... maybe they should nuke the Ithklur homeworld too? Can't have anyone else breeding those into a warrior race now, can we?
I wonder what the unmodified Cymbellian chips think of their spacebound relatives...
Gosh, you're awfully left wing for a graduate of an Evil Doctor school. Actually I just found the whole Cymbeline plot arc a little silly: there were better ways to develop the theme of artificial intelligence. Mind you, as the chips are canon after all, one wonders what happened to the little fellows. Were they capable of understanding they were under attack during that Black War strike? Did they survive and adapt as a species? Have they evolved into something altogether different? If the Terrans or Solomani mount a re-contanct mission the results should be interesting.
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EvilDrGanymede
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Please. To be left wing nowadays is the much more civilised option, and us Evil Doctors have standards.
Think of us as 'Lawful Evil', rather than 'Chaotic Evil'
I've discovered I have a policy. It's evolved over time but here it is:
Generally I try to answer questions. If, however, I find the question high-handed, canonista-inquisitorial or phrased in such a way that suggests hatred of a concept that I'm working with, or worst of all, written in such a way that it feels like someone is demanding that I answer for my actions, well, I don't answer.
I'm working with the Traveller cannon here. Whatever your personal axes may be regarding that cannon, if you grind them in front of me I tend to get all uncooperative.
That's been illustrated on certain mailing lists quite recently.
So, if there is something you want to know about the TNE or general OTU setting, do please ask. But keep it neutral, or I'll just ignore the question like I have in a certain other thread on this board.
Generally I try to answer questions. If, however, I find the question high-handed, canonista-inquisitorial or phrased in such a way that suggests hatred of a concept that I'm working with, or worst of all, written in such a way that it feels like someone is demanding that I answer for my actions, well, I don't answer.
I'm working with the Traveller cannon here. Whatever your personal axes may be regarding that cannon, if you grind them in front of me I tend to get all uncooperative.
That's been illustrated on certain mailing lists quite recently.
So, if there is something you want to know about the TNE or general OTU setting, do please ask. But keep it neutral, or I'll just ignore the question like I have in a certain other thread on this board.
MJD,
I certainly hope I haven't given offense by expressing (albeit flippantly) my dislike of the deus-ex-Cymbeline plot arc. That said, I was very intrigued by your references to the Solomani and Terrans and my post was directed toward inquiring after them further. If you feel comfortable expanding on your comments, I really would like to know if the Terrans are based at Earth, the Solomani at Home, and how the Vegans are getting on.
I certainly hope I haven't given offense by expressing (albeit flippantly) my dislike of the deus-ex-Cymbeline plot arc. That said, I was very intrigued by your references to the Solomani and Terrans and my post was directed toward inquiring after them further. If you feel comfortable expanding on your comments, I really would like to know if the Terrans are based at Earth, the Solomani at Home, and how the Vegans are getting on.
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EvilDrGanymede
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Well, since you basically said 'nuke the crap out of the chips', I noted last night that this did actually happen in Survival Margin... so you don't have to keep wishing for it to happen
That Black War strike was actually what got me thinking about the little guys in more humane terms and wonder what's become of them in the New Era. Did they survive and evolve into something different? What if they managed to network themselves or overcome their energy problems? I seem to recall they were working on solar so the nukes would pose a real problem unless the survivors adapted by synthesizing background radiation. I wonder if they could develop the wherewithal to contact the colonists or a passing ship? Perhaps more importantly, as the good Doctor G obliquely suggested, did anyone get a hold of them like the Imperium did?
Virus is part of the Traveller canon. I have to work with it whatever anyone may think. I sometimes get a bit tetchy when folks post disparaging things about it. By inference, they're having a go at my treatment of Virus, sight unseen.
Mind, I was a lot more annoyed at the tone of a question on a different thread....
Mind, I was a lot more annoyed at the tone of a question on a different thread....
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EvilDrGanymede
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I think the only thing that would annoy me is if you pretended that Virus didn't happen - everything else is fine in my books
. (BTW, that 4th Imperium vs 4th Republic thread wasn't what miffed you, was it? I certainly wasn't complaining about anything you were doing there).
Erik Boielle
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Nother virus fan here.
>>I want a rational, identifiablly 'terran/human/decent' group in the Rim region, with acess to the Rim for those exploration campaigns.<<
So why doesn't the Reformation Coalition fit that description?
>>I want a rational, identifiablly 'terran/human/decent' group in the Rim region, with acess to the Rim for those exploration campaigns.<<
So why doesn't the Reformation Coalition fit that description?
MJD,
I understand where you're coming from. Sometimes certain questions and observations can seem beligerent or demanding. You're a busy person and we can't take your generous participation in this forum for granted. Please accept my sincere apologies if anything I've written has given offence.
As far as virus is concerned, it just wouldn't be the New Era without it, would it? Some of the more interesting plot elements in TNE came from how people responded to viral intelligence: the scandal in RSAC and recruitment of Sandman especially (and the collision course it places the RC and Regency on.) I honestly look forward to what you make of it all and wouldn't change the canon for the world.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but can you tell us anything more about the Terran Federation and Solomani?
I understand where you're coming from. Sometimes certain questions and observations can seem beligerent or demanding. You're a busy person and we can't take your generous participation in this forum for granted. Please accept my sincere apologies if anything I've written has given offence.
As far as virus is concerned, it just wouldn't be the New Era without it, would it? Some of the more interesting plot elements in TNE came from how people responded to viral intelligence: the scandal in RSAC and recruitment of Sandman especially (and the collision course it places the RC and Regency on.) I honestly look forward to what you make of it all and wouldn't change the canon for the world.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but can you tell us anything more about the Terran Federation and Solomani?
The thread that annopyed me was about the Gateway book. There was more than a hint of 'inquisition' about the way the quesitons were put. You know, like I had to answer to these people.
As to the solomani, things are a little unclear just yet about that region. I'm doing the development work soon so I'll have some answers in a few weeeks.
The RC would be a candidate, but they're a bit fasr coreward. I meant I want decent successors tot eh SOllies in old Solomani space.
As to the solomani, things are a little unclear just yet about that region. I'm doing the development work soon so I'll have some answers in a few weeeks.
The RC would be a candidate, but they're a bit fasr coreward. I meant I want decent successors tot eh SOllies in old Solomani space.
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EvilDrGanymede
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Well, according to the TNS from 163-1127 (page 56 of SM), it appears that every last Cymbeline chip was destroyed in the barrage. There's possibly enough wiggle room to say that a scant few survived (I'm not sure if any turn up later on, I just got to that page), but it seems like the vast majority are dead and gone.
Assuming they understood what happened to them, I'd imagine the survivors are going to be rather pissed off -they'd probably be begging any Vampire ships that turn up to load 'em onto a Tigress so they can start dropping nukes on the humans and see how they like it...
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