General This is the Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone…

[Spinward Scout]

Happy Traveller Day!

Mayday, Mayday I almost forgot!

 

[Enoki]

Kai opens an emergency comm channel. “This is LSP 25147 Daichi Kaisu, KKQM. PPPP we are under attack by pirates. We need assistance. Any ship within communication range please respond.”

From my Traveller based novel Hao's Luck

 

[Grav_Moped]

The navigation officer replies, "There's nothing else in sensor range, and no surveillance satellites. We should be able to neutralize them before they can reach jump limit."

I sigh with relief -- we can save them without being seen. They're liars like the rest of their kind, but in this they're innocent, and the aggressors are irredeemably broken. "Captain, please hail the merchant and let them know we're en route."

She opens a comms channel. "Beowulf, this is Patrol Frigate Cherenkov Radiation. Prioritize defensive fire, you have assistance inbound."

I lose myself in the strategic display, and become one with my fighter pilots.

We have a mission.



(Why, yes -- it is a Shivva-class Patrol Frigate.)

 

[kilemall]

The navigation officer replies, "There's nothing else in sensor range, and no surveillance satellites. We should be able to neutralize them before they can reach jump limit."

I sigh with relief -- we can save them without being seen. They're liars like the rest of their kind, but in this they're innocent, and the aggressors are irredeemably broken. "Captain, please hail the merchant and let them know we're en route."

She opens a comms channel. "Beowulf, this is Patrol Frigate Cherenkov Radiation. Prioritize defensive fire, you have assistance inbound."

I lose myself in the strategic display, and become one with my fighter pilots.

We have a mission.



(Why, yes -- it is a Shivva-class Patrol Frigate.)

Heh, what if the classic Beowulf message was a pirate lure/distract all this time?

 

[Deldarius]

It is a lure. Got us all playing Traveller, didn't it?

 

[Baroun Tardis]

She opens a comms channel. "Beowulf, this is Patrol Frigate Cherenkov Radiation. Prioritize defensive fire, you have assistance inbound."

I like that ship name
The updated version of "Sea Breeze" or somesuch

 

[Grav_Moped]

I like that ship name
The updated version of "Sea Breeze" or somesuch

The ship name is the literal translation of the somewhat more poetic phrase, "a dark star's light" -- which in Zdetl is a word with the -va suffix, meaning "light". That suffix is common to all Shivva-class frigates, in canon.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Heh, what if the classic Beowulf message was a pirate lure/distract all this time?

Heh.

I was going for the appearance of an "out of the frying pan, into the fire" situation (despite the Zhos' good intentions here!)

 

[Deldarius]

It could be some perverse Hiver manipulation.

Put out the distress call and see who comes a running.

When they arrive, they find the ship is emblazoned with Dreadnought MegaBurger livery.
They be like "Oh, sorry...yeah, we're good here, groat burger?"

The Vargr fall for it all the time. A case of Pavlov's Vargr. The drive thru is packed with corsair's.

 

[pshrynk]

See my signature line below...

 

[kilemall]

See my signature line below...

Ummm… none.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Ummm… none.

It's visible in the desktop version, not in the mobile version.

 

[kilemall]

It's visible in the desktop version, not in the mobile version.

Ahh, haven’t run across that feature. Hopefully I can override that in my profile.

 

[pshrynk]

Ummm… none.

Free Trader Beowulf - This is Private yacht Bun-Bun. Ummm... Sorry. Thought you were my brother in law.