What New Setting Would You Most Like to See?
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Civil War/Barracks Emperors mileau for me. It's what MT's Rebellion should have been.
If you include the 1st Frontier War (and you should) we're looking at a 30-plus year period with lots of room for lots of varied campaign/adventure themes.
There are two large foreign wars, plus whatever political maneuvers, skirmishes, and battles the Barracks Emperors are up to around the Core. While the Barracks Emperors fight it out around Sylea, the bureaucracy in other parts of the Imperium keep things almost normal.
The Marches are in a huge state of flux with battles, sieges, refugees, "loyaltists" vs. "rebels", and lots of other stuff. The Rim might as well an open frontier. The Old Earth Union hasn't been part of the Imperium for a generation yet and there are scads of worlds rimward which haven't been contacted officially or unofficially.
You can run a standard tramp trader campaign in part of the Imperium where all the "interesting times" are sectors away. You can fight in several different wars in several different ways. You can "boldly go" rimward contacting never-before-contacted worlds or exploring completely new ones. You can engage in high level politics among the real movers & shakers. The Civil War mileau really can offer it all.
If you include the 1st Frontier War (and you should) we're looking at a 30-plus year period with lots of room for lots of varied campaign/adventure themes.
There are two large foreign wars, plus whatever political maneuvers, skirmishes, and battles the Barracks Emperors are up to around the Core. While the Barracks Emperors fight it out around Sylea, the bureaucracy in other parts of the Imperium keep things almost normal.
The Marches are in a huge state of flux with battles, sieges, refugees, "loyaltists" vs. "rebels", and lots of other stuff. The Rim might as well an open frontier. The Old Earth Union hasn't been part of the Imperium for a generation yet and there are scads of worlds rimward which haven't been contacted officially or unofficially.
You can run a standard tramp trader campaign in part of the Imperium where all the "interesting times" are sectors away. You can fight in several different wars in several different ways. You can "boldly go" rimward contacting never-before-contacted worlds or exploring completely new ones. You can engage in high level politics among the real movers & shakers. The Civil War mileau really can offer it all.
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mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
The one I want isn't on the list - the Galaxiad.
I have written campaigns for MTU for:
300000BC War of the Ancients
2600AD The fall of the rules of man (rise of the machines)
2900ADish Long Night Adventures
I am currently writing stuff for 7500AD Galactic Imperium
I have written campaigns for MTU for:
300000BC War of the Ancients
2600AD The fall of the rules of man (rise of the machines)
2900ADish Long Night Adventures
I am currently writing stuff for 7500AD Galactic Imperium
Funny you should say that ...
I've been working on a setting around the collapse of the Rule of Man, based in the area around the Daibei, Reaver's Deep, Magyar and Dark Nebula sectors. This could roll forward into the predecessors of the Aslan Border wars and the Reaver wars between the various Reaver states of this region and the Sylean Federation.
This was something I originally came up with back in the 1990s, and I've picked it back up as something to amuse myself with. I'm pretty sure I can see how to build it without having to significantly bastardise any existing canon.
The idea here is that this region was somewhat isolated in the Ziru Sirka period and was largely out of the way of the worst of the Terran-Vilani wars. It was a somewhat distant frontier region during the Ziru Sirka and was quasi-independent anyway, although somewhat under-developed.
Thus, the 2744 (whatever this is P.I.) banking crisis that brought down the Rule of Man had less of an effect on this region, and the presence of the Aslan to the spinward gave a significant impetus to maintain a working naval capability.
The core could collapse into introspection and infighting in relative safety as it was 50+ parsecs from potential aggressors in any direction. The spinward regions bordering the Aslan couldn't afford that. Thus, this region forms various states capable of maintaining a naval capability, who consider themselves to be as legitimate as the Syleans - if not more so.
This setting could go from the late 2700s (~1,700 P.I.) through to a Milieu 0 era, telling the story of the rise of what would come to be known as the Reaver states and the subsequent Reaver wars. You could tell it from the perspective of the Syleans bringing order back to the universe. Alternatively, you could tell it from the perspective of the Reaver states, who are quite happy with the status quo and are of the view that Cleon can stick his Imperium where the stars don't shine.
There are several periods that you could do, for example:
I've been working on a setting around the collapse of the Rule of Man, based in the area around the Daibei, Reaver's Deep, Magyar and Dark Nebula sectors. This could roll forward into the predecessors of the Aslan Border wars and the Reaver wars between the various Reaver states of this region and the Sylean Federation.
This was something I originally came up with back in the 1990s, and I've picked it back up as something to amuse myself with. I'm pretty sure I can see how to build it without having to significantly bastardise any existing canon.
The idea here is that this region was somewhat isolated in the Ziru Sirka period and was largely out of the way of the worst of the Terran-Vilani wars. It was a somewhat distant frontier region during the Ziru Sirka and was quasi-independent anyway, although somewhat under-developed.
Thus, the 2744 (whatever this is P.I.) banking crisis that brought down the Rule of Man had less of an effect on this region, and the presence of the Aslan to the spinward gave a significant impetus to maintain a working naval capability.
The core could collapse into introspection and infighting in relative safety as it was 50+ parsecs from potential aggressors in any direction. The spinward regions bordering the Aslan couldn't afford that. Thus, this region forms various states capable of maintaining a naval capability, who consider themselves to be as legitimate as the Syleans - if not more so.
This setting could go from the late 2700s (~1,700 P.I.) through to a Milieu 0 era, telling the story of the rise of what would come to be known as the Reaver states and the subsequent Reaver wars. You could tell it from the perspective of the Syleans bringing order back to the universe. Alternatively, you could tell it from the perspective of the Reaver states, who are quite happy with the status quo and are of the view that Cleon can stick his Imperium where the stars don't shine.
There are several periods that you could do, for example:
- Collapse of the rule of man - with a slightly post-apocalyptic feel. Parts of the old ROM forming regional coalitions, collapse of the Ramshackle Empire and rise of piracy and warlords in the absence of interstellar power "That sucking you hear is the sound of the biggest power vacuum in recorded history."
- Rise of the Reaver States (i.e. what would subsequently come to be known as such in Imperial history texts), surrounded by a post-apocalyptic wilderness to the Trailing side and by the growing Aslan threat to the Spinward. This setting would be maybe 2900-3000AD - a couple of hundred years after the collapse of the ROM. This might be a space viking type campaign, exploring, conquering, colonising and plundering worlds, something more like a traditional 3I campaign with a bunch of adventurers freebooting around the place.
- Reaver wars - Around Milieu 0. Conflict between the Sylean Federation/Third Imperium and the Reaver states. This might be good for Trillion Credit Squadron type games.
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Or a more in-depth development of the Islands Cluster from Trillion Credit Squadron, from a more conventional role play perspective.
(Yes, you could probably run it as given in TCS, but more details would be fun.)
Procopius
SOC-9
Ditto!
I voted for Wanderer, but this is my second choice.
Back in the day, there was an RPG called Psiworld (IIRC it was by FGU) about emerging psions. One neat aspect, from a gaming perspective, was that the adventures supported either emerging psions being persecuted, or dangerous/criminal psions needing to be contained. Opposites sides of the same coin. I always thought that would make a great way to treat the Psionic Suppressions in the OTU.
On the large list of things I have started but will never finish is setting material for a -300k setting. That "Grandfather's Children" as a name for the milieu is misleading is the crux of my thesis, when the vast majority of the trillions of sophonts during that era are not the godlike offspring of Yaskoydray but Droyne, Human, and many, many "other" living comfortably in a cosmopolitan TL-25+ interstellar civilization. Of course, occasionally they are roped into the unfathomable schemes of inscrutable superbeings much as the ancient Greeks wrote that they were subject to the whims of their gods, but that's part of the fun...
Based on a comment once made by Marc Miller that he imagined an Ancients-Era setting to be somewhat "Barsoomian", I think this could be a really interesting Milieu if it focused on the transplanted Humans (or possibly proto-Vargr and/or "others" now extinct) of various worlds, with the Droyne as "Overlords" and the Grandchildren of Yaskoydray as distant "godlike" figures. I could imagine a setting very much like Jack Vance's "Tschai" Novels, or something like John Carter of Mars, but with a more grounded and modern technical backdrop.
It could be populated by Humans of varying degrees of technical knowledge (from "wild" humans in their transplanted enclaves to those who were hand-picked by the Droyne to assist with various servitor tasks). Depending on the particular world setting and focus, it could almost be a "swords-and-blasters" style of campaign.
(Yes, I am a fan of the "Planetary Romance" genre of Speculative Fiction.
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And that sounds compelling to me.
Joshua, is this similar to what you were envisioning?
Let's sync up and do it.
1900 / Galaxiad line item added to the poll list.
