MGT Only: The Crew and Adventures of the Imperial Patrol Cruiser Boxing Kangaroo

[MThompson016]

Well, I've got all my 'speaking part' characters all cast and ready for my soloplay on the Solomani Rim campaign about a Type T Patrol Cruiser, the Boxing Kangaroo.

The crew mans the newly built Patrol Cruiser INS Boxing Kangaroo (PC-1589234), a typical, if newly built, 400 displacement ton member of it's class at the Imperial Naval Yard, Light Craft Section at Perth, Australia at Terra/Sol (SR 1827). The deckplans from Mongoose Publishing's Supplement 2: Traders and Gunboats are used for a reference on the ship.

Crew profiled to date:

LT Ian Brickley, IN, http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-captain.html

SUBLT Eneri Mohammed Hassan, IN, http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-xo.html

MM1 Juliana Brand, IN, http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-engineer-and-ships-lpo.html

GMT2 Tsang Chishan and BM3 Rogier Zabiyah: http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-leading-gunner-and-pilot.html

Up relatively soon should be the Imperial Marine NCO's, and notes about the NPC's (extras) who fill out the crew list.

 

[MThompson016]

Here's the first of my Marine NCO's, SGT Guy Valdez, Detachment Leader and Grunt.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2016/08/sending-in-marines-sgt-guy-valdez.html

 

[MThompson016]

Well, here's my Imperial Marine Ship's Boat pilot, and the crew of the Patrol Cruiser Boxing Kangaroo.

This is the last of the character posts, and hopefully I'll have the first incident written soon.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2016/09/cpl-bartlemo-afari-marine-ships-boat.html

 

[MThompson016]

Here's how the crew got together.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2016/10/putting-crew-together.html

 

[MThompson016]

Oh, here's my solo play written over far too long. I threw out an early draft at one point.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2017/04/events-of-202-1119.html

 

[MThompson016]

So in writing up my second session last night, I had this extended excursion come up. I wrote watchbills for the ship.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2017/07/watchbills.html

 

[MThompson016]

So here's the second solo play session. A quick jump, target practice, and a run home was the plan, but something intervenes.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2017/07/a-quiet-shakedown.html

 

[Ulsyus]

Are you going to explain why a Kangaroo would put things in boxes? Is it uplifted so it can tie a bow on the box? In the uplifting was it given longer arms as well as opposable digits so it can tie the bow in a relatively short time without excessive swearing?

 

[Ulsyus]

PS: For a more visual analogy, try to imagine a T-Rex trying to hold onto a toothbrush and clean its teeth!?!

 

[AsenRG]

For a visual analogy, kangaroos look like boxers when they fight, to the point that human-kangaroo boxing matches have been conducted at least for decades, and probably for centuries now.

 

[Barrel]

Apparently, kangaroos don't follow Marquess of Queensbury rules at all, but they do have glass jaws...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRT7lf8byw

 

[Lycanorukke]

I have wondered how long it took kangaroo boxers/promoters to realise that a kangaroo doesn't 'box' as such, but is trying to get a grip so it can kick your stomach out your nose or slice you open from neck to groin.

Could have been rather messy for the first few 'matches'.

 

[MThompson016]

I like this video about boxing kangaroos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCcLMNcWZOc

 

[MThompson016]

Like most patrol missions, it starts off as a whole lot of boring, but at least the first liberty day ends up with out a real incident.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2017/09/on-patrol-part-i.html

 

[MThompson016]

More time on the patrol, but this time a patron shows up and gives them a lead on a terrorist cell network.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2017/10/on-patrol-part-ii.html

 

[MThompson016]

This time was pretty routine, but I ended it on a cliffhanger.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2018/04/wasting-away-over-peraspera.html

 

[MThompson016]

Finally did another session after over a year. Shooting at professional pirates for International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2019/09/shooting-up-professional-pirates.html

 

[MThompson016]

Another cliff hanger! However, this adventure write up almost a year in the making. Starting a solo run of Death Station. https://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2020/10/death-station-part-i.html

 

[MThompson016]

Quite possibly my shortest time between major campaign installments. Finally complete, my solitaire play of Death Station. Basically, this is what happens when you put a group of prepared military types into a horror scenario. Running a classic scenario was different from free-form adventures. I don't think many people would try to have two separate groups in a simultaneous dungeon crawl as well. http://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2020/11/death-station-part-ii.html

 

[MThompson016]

From last night, I ran through a SAR mission. The hard part was giving there some conflict and making it seem appropriate.

https://travellersandbox.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-dismal-place-for-search-and-rescue.html