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What Is The Highest Level of Power Anyone In Your Games Reached?

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3rd Officer on a run-down Merchant or commanding a fleet?
Messengers for the lowest bit of the Imperium food chain or becoming high nobility?
Failed Far Trader captain or successful trade magnate?
Lowly, anonymous grunt or famous war hero?
Running from the law or running a planet (perhaps both)?

What's the highest level of power/fame/nobility/notoriety anyone in one of your Trav campaigns has achieved, canon or IYTU?
 
In a group I was playing with online at one point we were overseeing about two subsectors of Imperial space, trying to hold the line as the Aslan were advancing into the Marches and Imperial forces were withdrawing to shore up a stronger defensive line further to the rear.
 
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Well, we had an entire sector of Barrakai Technum (sp?) looking for us at one point. And, it wasn't even our fault, really.... :file_28:
 
Well I recall one of the players in our group once rolling an 8 or 9 term Navy character in High Guard. Ended up as a Sector or Grand Admiral and a Duke.

I don't recall the character ever being played though. He was so far beyond the social realm of the rest of the group I don't think we could figure out any reason for him to be adventuring with us (ex-Merc, ex-Merch, and DD Scout).
 
In a game which is now (finally) returning to life after a long hiatus, I'm playing the captain of a 1,200 dton Solomani System Re-Enforcement Carrier in the Hinterworlds.
 
At their height of power, my players had a fleet of three Gazelles, all modified. They owned a Spacers Bar on Promise, (Promise/Diaspora) and an 800 Dtonne Wilds Trader that did the Promise to Aubaine trip as often as possible. All up their company numbered about 100 members.
 
Lets see...

A serving Subsector Duke

A young Crown Prince Strephon's GF

Board members of a sectorwide megacorp
 
Played a few Generals and Squadron Commanders, but the best was a T4 game set in a pocket empire about to be absorbed by the newly minted 3I. Probably the only time I'll have a PC who gets to be called a "Lord" (and probably the only time I'll have a PC marry off his daughter to a scout to prevent a survey report from being filed).
 
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Well I recall one of the players in our group once rolling an 8 or 9 term Navy character in High Guard. Ended up as a Sector or Grand Admiral and a Duke.

I don't recall the character ever being played though. He was so far beyond the social realm of the rest of the group I don't think we could figure out any reason for him to be adventuring with us (ex-Merc, ex-Merch, and DD Scout).
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That's funny, because the exact thing happened to me. I rolled up a Rear Admiral for one campaign I was going to be in, but it turned out the campaign was going to be aboard the March Harier. The GM decided that that character would in no way end up aboard a fat trader...



In the campaign I'm running now, ongoing for about fifteen years game time, the main character has been knighted and is now a personal aide and messenger for Archduke Norris. Right now he is carrying a message (the "Dear Fellow Imperial Leader" letter that he sent out in 1123 to the other Archdukes - see Survival Margin) to Duchess Margaret.

If he only knew what was waiting for him there...
 
In my CT game, I eventually reached the status of Knight and Peer of the Realm...a very high honour seeing that we did not what the frick the Imperium was all about and that titles could be awarded just because you went to the right school.

In MegaTraveller reached the status of a Subsector Admiral who charged with leading Black War raids deep into Lucan's strongholds.

In TNE, well, it was the often repeated story of a Star Viking who said F*ck it all, and became King.

Need to play a decent T4 or T20 game but for me it was never about advancement into ever greater levels of power and glory, it was always about exploring a frontier. If anything, fame was a hindrance getting the job done with rolling up one's sleeve's and just doing it.
 
I made it to Squadron Commander of a Starmerc outfit in 5FW. The Swordies learned to hate the phrase 'Particle Accelerator Bay' :)

Squadron was made up of Starmerc odds and sods and since my unit had a) the largest number of ships and b) owned BOTH of the capital ships involved (just a couple of 4FW era destroyers from a TCS game), I got to be commander of the commerce raiding squadron. Ended up executing an entire ship crew for slave running, sold their ship, and paid the price to the families of the victims.

Log Entry:
"Docked Ship. Executed slavers. Won SEH." :P

I'm telling you, 2300's Lone Wolf and Three Blind Mice were EASIER than this one.
 
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