Okay here we go, forgot this one.

Hi everyone :)
This should be fun.

*gives T'risa a quick hug*  Heya T!  It is good to see you again!

And likewise, I am looking forward to RPing with everyone!

It's good to see people we know here :-)

I guess since this is traveller, both Elsbeth and I have a "connection"
W00t for free skills!

Hi! Looking forward to the game starting again.

Just wanted to say hello to everyone.  Hope you are all well.

Welcome to the game :)

Hi there
Another new guy here, I'm checking out all these races and trying to figure out what to do.

I'm not familiar with the world. What version of traveler are we using?

It's a homebrew universe.

And we're using mongoose traveller, 1st edition.

Guy the Third saying Hi. :)

I'm human, or at least I think I am.

Been working on my character.  So what kind of time frame we looking at to have those completed?  When does our gm plan to start?

I can start anytime you have a rough character in mind...or you can start RP at the local watering hole if you have the basics worked out...such as careers etc.

T'risa and crew are new arrivals on "vacation" to ay low and stay out of sight for a while..and assist locals with more frequent raids by Onai, and Q'sa raiders/pirates/slavers.

The system has a pretty solid self defense squadron,but several outling systems have been hardpressed to repell attacks in the past few months.

new players have arrived here by chance, or have gotten work with the local colonial assistance operations. An outfit named CASAR is always recruiting and with wardrums beating everyone is hiring new employees who can handle a gun or handle..other than normal work assignments.

and since Valkiir run the planet there are always some sort of mischief to get into...they are laid back like that...as long as you dont cause any trouble locally they dont care what your up to...

Incidentally....in Traveller Mongoose edition you can get free skills by establishing connections to other PCs....

Typically it's something we would have taught each other

Anyone wish to form a connection?

I'm fine with it. Lynn's been travelling around quite a bit so she could have met people in all sorts of places.

I'll start working on my character in about an hour from now, and will be better able to work connections in from there.

Although to be fair my character isn't finished yet either.

Well, for the benefit of anyone considering a connection T'risa is a social leader tactician type. She's a battle witch (In this setting that's someone who predicts battles and tactics using precognition and telepathy to make things go better for us).

She's been an agent which didn't go well and joined the Navy before being exiled from the Tau Imperium for trading in genetic material. She's been a Colonial Marshal now for a time.

TBH most of T'risa terms could be considered as having rolled the mishap table.

Well for the sake of finding new connections and making the most of this my character is a retired star marine and law enforcement.   Would have lots of exposure both in military and civilian life.

Think agent Gibbs from NCIS :)
This message was last edited by the player at 20:52, Tue 08 Sept 2015.

Wow this character generator takes you places you wouldn't expect.

I'm looking at mustering out of the Imperial navy as a legendary captain.

I started in engineering and my path just went kind of crazy. I might have served as a captain or senior officer on a drop ship and I was an aide to a senior admiral so I could easily have connections with military and agents if you were involved with some hush hush dealings with the navy. I'll hopefully finish my last tour tonight and ill post a full bio so people have spots to jump in if they want to make a connection.

Tell me about it! ;)

I was ejected from the Navy after one term and bad luck followed me to the Scouts!
I guess I can say that at least I survived all this.
I'm an ex-Fighter Pilot turned Explorer who has been here, there and everywhere, and have a Rival, an Alien Contact and an Enemy - hasn't been dull!

From a previous game, I've found it easier to make connections when everyone knows how many terms everybody has served and what Events they have had, and can then match up. For instance:-

1 Term ago - Scouts: Exploration
Your scout ship is one of the first on the scene to rescue survivors of a destroyed freighter. Gained an Enemy.

2 Terms ago - Scouts: Exploration
You spend a great deal of time on the fringes of known space. Gained Contact in an alien race and one level in any skill of choice.

3 Terms ago - Scouts: Exploration
Life Event. Betrayal. Gained a Rival.

4 Terms ago - Navy: Flight
Disaster! Mishap - you are blamed for the deaths of several crew members.

Perhaps the GM can set up a thread for discussions?
This message was last edited by the player at 08:44, Wed 09 Sept 2015.

Hi everyone!  Looking forward to RPing with you.

Elsbeth is also interested in connections (she has one with T'risa already, as they go back a number of years - the previous Pax Bellum game..:D).  She has the following (equivalent - since she is converted character) terms:

Last Term
Marine/Ground Assault (CMC)
Not sure - probably Black Ops or Planetary Assault or Trapped Behind Enemy lines...

2 Terms Ago
Marine/Ground Assault (CMC)
Improved Relationship - Romance (Balkiir)

3 Terms Ago
Rogue/Enforcer
Bloodsports and a Prison Escape

4 Terms Ago
Agent/Corporate (Bodyguard)
Mishap - Severely Injured (Incident on Enchoa Rhi/Jannissary Station, charge killed)

Have we decided on a campaign skill package?

to options here

Traveller package

Mercenary Package

Starship Package

Skill Packages
As a group, select one of the following skill packages, which are
collections of basic skills you will use while adventuring and
travelling. Taking a skill package ensures that your group will at
least have basic competency in the situations that will come up in
the game. When you have collectively decided which skill package is
most suitable for the campaign you want to play, each player takes
it in turns to select an item from the package. Keep going until all
skills have been selected.


Traveller Skill Package: This is an all-round skill package, good for
a campaign where the characters are trading one week and blowing
things up the next.
Pilot (any) 1, Sensors 1, Comms 1, Gunner (any) 1, Gun Combat
(any) 1, Persuade 1, Stealth 1, Medic 1.

Mercenary Skill Package: This skill package focuses on ground
combat, and is obviously aimed at combat-heavy games.
Sensors 1, Comms 1, Medic 1, Leadership 1, Heavy Weapons (any) 1,
Gun Combat (any) 1, Gun Combat (any) 1, Stealth 1.

Starship Skills Package: This is for campaigns where the characters
will spend almost all their time on their spacecraft.
Pilot (any) 1, Gunner (any) 1, Engineer (any) 1, Mechanic 1, Sensors
1, Medic 1, Comms 1, Astrogation 1.

My vote is for the Mercenary package :)

Do we actually have anyone that can fly a ship?
My own skills in said area despite a distinguished naval career are somewhat lacking.

Then maybe the Starship Package since my own are pretty well non-exhistant.  Hell I'm still trying to figure out where my is gonna fit in among all the other marines in the group :P

Cain
I can be your alien from two terms ago if you want.

I'll vote for starship package. I'll take pilot if no one else wants it. I have a good dex

Elsibeth I could help your prison escape if you want.

Prometheus - it says something about bonus points for random roll - how many can we get? I need to make up for aging ;)
This message was last edited by the player at 04:16, Wed 09 Sept 2015.

Alex: sounds good!

And I'm your pilot, don't worry about that. Might need someone to point me in the right direction and stuff, but I can fly small craft with the best of 'em!

G'day All!  I've just received word from Prometheus granting access to the game.  I'm going to play a Quetzl.  This being a Traveller game, I'll let you know what type of character when the dice have finished with me...

I look forward to loads of laughs as we "Do unto others before they can do unto us!"

From what the GM has told me I also have a connection with Balkiir, which will have to be either 1 term or 3 terms ago, from my PoV.

So I'm one of the Najuhlim. Do I basically look human?

Also, I used the Mongoose supplement "Book 4 - Psion" for rolling events and careers. Is that okay?

Najuhlim Expatriates look like stocky, heavy featured humans with a very distinctive set of proportions and facial features...It's noticeable, but not likely to be noticed across the street.

Psion shouldn't be an issue, although watch out there are some nasty Psions out there and most of them Ain't Naj.

Sorry Nephilum not Naj

ohhhh hehehe...well now lets see how that goes over.....

We'll just drop the anti matter from orbit.

I'm having a devil of a time trying to find myself a rule book to use. I thought I had one but apparently it wasn't what I thought it was. So still working on specifics right now. Sorry to slow things down.

unfortunately they are sometimes hard to find...and I cant recommend downloading one...that would be bad...the mods, and my employers would frown at me.

I'm also in the thick of a process right now to get a setting finalized and approved for publication, daily meetings with business partners, and after my move I didn't get a new doctor so my meds and such aren't right. And an active almost five year old to handle on top of it. I've been swamped...

Hey, we all need diversions at times... ;)

I feel yer pain working on a second supplement for Mongoose, and trying to figure out how the new addition rules are going to affect what I've already submitted. rewrites incoming no doubt.

but on the bright side I have a buttload of ships for the current rules.

well the neph who are beginning to crop up on their own, and not doing  the Osahdii's dirty work, are a bit different..but T'risa will defiantly recognize the facial features, body build..and innate sense of not quite right...other than that they look like tall, olive skinned dark haired humans with  striking features..as if they stepped out of a Babylonian wall painting or something.

Ok, barring any extra complications my background is:

Last term: Drifter
 Lynn has been moving from place to place, avoiding trouble as best she can.
 Complication: Attacked by enemies. Hired goons trying to drag her back to a place she'd rather not go again. She escaped, but took a beating that left her weakened. She gained an Ally during this time.

Term Previous: Navy Engineer
 Ranked up to an Able Space Hand. Gained Int and Edu. Got herself into a Gambling ring and walked away with an Air/Raft.

Term Previous: Navy Engineer
 Focused on Engineering and ship design. Received advanced training in ship design.

First term: Dilettante
 Daughter of Governor/General Winters, owner of a mining facility/asteroid base. Lived as heir to the empire for a while but never agreed with her father's militaristic ways. Ran away.

My last three terms were in law enforcement.  Could have helped you in that escape in your last term..

Mixtzin has spent 6 tours with the Quetzl Ilhuicac Yaotlahueliloque (Star Marines), much of it engaged in various actions.  He emerged from his career as a full colonel, highly skilled surgeon, with a sideline in piloting capital ships.

Tour 6: Front lines of planetary assault and occupation (Gained - Recon)
Tour 5: Trapped behind enemy lines (Gained - Survival)
Tour 4: Assigned to assault an enemy fortress (Gained - Tactics [Military])
Tour 3: Front lines of planetary assault and occupation (Gained - Gun Cbt [Slug Pistol])
Tour 2: Assigned to assault an enemy fortress (Gained - Tactics [Military])
Tour 1: Advanced training (Gained - Remote Operations)

He could use a couple of contacts, with a view towards boosting his skill in Battle Dress and Heavy Weapons.  If anyone is interested, I should be able to write a short story to explain each of the boosts, and how our characters met.

Have heavy weapons 1 if you want to be a contact, was in marines first 3 terms and law enforcement last 3 terms.

If you want to match up from there it's ok, but Lynn tends to avoid law enforcement. She may possibly be just a touch wanted...

Backstory I'd rather not reveal right now.

I've done 4 tours
1)Agent
Mishap-Captured by the enemy (they were O'maedan seperatists)
Event- prevented civil war
2)Navy officer
Event - gained contact Admiral J'nai
3)Navy officer
Event - sent for additional training
Mishap - falsely accused of a crime
4) CASAR Marshal (Law Enforcement)
And this is the IC thing from the last game
Event/Mishap - started intergalactic war
there's quite a lot going on there.

Quite an achievement how many characters have ..Started Intergalactic  war on their resume...

Anyone with military background has a chance to know one another....and anyone with Fleet, or nobility connections would know that someone from T'risa's family was involved in a major battle a few years back...it made the news....for a few weeks running...and her appearance before the Senate Select Committee was a highly rated special...

oh by the way unlike Traditional Traveller this world does have almost real time interstellar information systems...the lag time is measured in hours or days but it's fast enough for their to be interstellar news channels..and entertainment.

In reply to Kendrick Johnson (msg # 46):


Thanks Kendrik.  Mixtzin's Tour 2: Assigned to assault an enemy fortress, looks like a good place to do a little work with heavy weapons.  That would also be your 2nd tour.  I'll send you a little story tomorrow.

Thanks T'risa.  I'll form the contact from your 2nd tour, which is my 4th tour, another jolly jape at a fortress.  If I assume that the fortress was in space, using the Battle Dress for a prolonged period could explain the gain.  I'll send the story to you tomorrow.

Thanks Lynn.  I'll leave you to your own nefarious activities.

Brief career highlights of Commodore Kalaperna's career:

At 18 she won a coveted scholarship to the Imperial Naval Academy where she studied Engineering with the goal of becoming an Engineering officer.

Commissioned Ensign, served on the anti-pirate sloop Agrasai.

Took command of a cutter during the famous suppression of the pirate nest in the Inasuk Nebula. Cited for bravery.

Transferred to Engineering upon promotion to Lieutenant.

Served as an Electronics officer aboard the destroyer Pedifer. Performed well under fire while her immediate superiors panicked. Gained a rival.

Tapped for leadership training.


Evacuated the Wreck of the Pedifer after it suffered catastrophic battle damage of Alaxis.

Recruited into command on the basis of her skill with small craft.

Commanded the Galatana, a small patrol sloop.

Transferred to the staff of Admiral Raxos

Lead the boarding action on the rebel cruiser Besserman. Gained an Ally

Recruited to High Command

Commanded the Cruiser Benjamin King

Abused position in some shady deal to gain an extra benefit

Commanded a major evac operation and gained a powerful ally.

Mustered out:

Gained an independent operation

--------------------------------------

Possible Connections:

Lynn is it possible that you pointed a senior fleet officer in the direction of something profitable, both for herself and the Empire?

Major Evacuation: Another possible contact point

Anyone with time in the navy might have run across me as a legendary captain. I mustered out as a commodore.

Gained an Independent operation: I'm hoping the older players can help me put something together here. I am thinking a mercenary operation, an experienced officer who grows frustrated with official channels might decide to make her Military Contractors go after Intel in a less conventional manor?

It's possible, Nera. I'm not really a shady character, I just have some issues. But I'm not averse to shady business. Really I'm just a mechanic who lately has been in a bit of trouble.

But yeah, I'd certainly point people in the direction of, hall we say, wholly legitimate business proposals.

Might Lynn have done any work for the Fleet? Even on a contract basis?

Also should be noted I do have 1 ship share available to me, my character will have some interest in putting that to use.

She was navy for two terms. So eight years she worked around various ships. And as a Drifter she's been hiking across the universe.

Cain - 2 terms ago I was scavenging between the edges of Terran space and wherever I come from. Trying to get by without notice. I have amnesia about the years immediately before. 'Someone' discovered me and realizing my Psionics connected me to Terran. Psionic institute for testing and training where I worked for the next term.

Since I am your Alien Contact, perhaps you are the guy who pushed me toward Psionic institute either to get me on the radar of Terran Psi Authorities or to harness my power for the greater good.

I never heard back from Elsibeth so still looking for a contact and this might be better:

Lynn I was a Marine and gained leadership for an Assault the term you led a boarding party - how about I was under your command? A simple Support Private who stepped up when needed to implement your tactical victory...

I just want to get the connections before entering the Bar.

Prometheus:
1)what skill package did we choose? How many skills do we get from it?

2)Is there still any further benefit as mentioned in char creation? I don't mind if not - after all I have a lot of terms but I'm asking to complete everything.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:22, Thu 10 Sept 2015.

Sounds good! I "spent a great deal of time on the fringes of known space, gained Contact in an alien race", so that would fit nicely. I like both ideas as to pushing you toward the Psionic Institute - maybe I pushed you there for your own good, recognising another troubled soul (like me), and if the 'greater good' was helped also then that's fine too.

Lynn - maybe you met/had a brief relationship with a handsome Navy fighter pilot after running away from home, and that sparked your interest in all things Naval/ships? Perhaps prior to said pilot's ejection from said service? So this would be end of Term 1 for both of us, or close to it. How it went or ended is entirely up to you, and feel free to ignore this suggestion!
This message was last edited by the player at 12:41, Thu 10 Sept 2015.

Balkiir and I have met previously, and as I said before this would have to be either 1 or 3 terms ago for me.

1 Term ago
Your scout ship is one of the first on the scene to rescue survivors of a destroyed freighter

I'd suggest this last term (the destroyed freighter idea was mine). Perhaps having hauled Balkiir's platoon out of that tight spot we passed this stricken vessel on the way, and - with no Medic or Engineer skill to hand - Cain opted to leave it be. Someone else on board could have taken umbrage at that, hence the Enemy gained.

I'll leave open my Connection for 3 terms ago for now. There are a number of possibilities there, including T'risa (falsely accused of a crime then while I was betrayed!) and Elsbeth even though we have just RP'd introductions.

Cain's background might be described as 'shady', but he's not very open on that subject. Could have connected with Nera through a bunch of channels, and might have been on the opposite side of Kendrick on more than one occasion!

I think it's fine. Likely as not it ended because Lynn up and left.

Thinking it over, no need for me to keep secrets OOC. Lynn left her home because she hated the way her father did things and she fled without permission from the Governor/General. And even now, years later, her father still has thugs out scouring the galaxy for her to drag her home. So there's investigators and hired goons out there hunting her down. So anyone who wants to know Lynn from her early Dilettante ways would know she fled from her father's little empire and has no intention of going back.

Works for me. Cain believes bad luck follows him everywhere, so a girl walking out on him without word of warning fits nicely. Likely thinks it was his fault!

Even if he gets word that hired goons were responsible he'll think they were after him - as I said before, Cain has something of a shady background, which tends to follow him around, even when he 'bettered himself' and made it into the Navy.

So it currently looks as though I have two connections.
1) Elsbeth
2) Mixtli

Nera looks like an obvious choice for me (what species is Nera?).
So who shall my last victim be MWAHAHAHAHA!

Lynn as a connection during my time as a detective we could have met as part of an investigation and after learning your reasoning let you go.

It is my understanding we can use up to two Contacts for skills.
I have
1) Cain

And have made ideas for Elsibeth and Lynn But I must have been confused, Sorry Lynn

And it seems they are getting multiple requests as well and may already have two.

My last suggestion should have been meant for Nera, the Legendary Captain
Would you like to have a connection from when you assaulted the Besserman?
This message was last edited by the player at 15:59, Thu 10 Sept 2015.

So far I just have Mixtli.

Now how do the contacts for skill work?

You're right the maximum contacts is 2.

Basically a connection is a link between you and another PC. It incentivizes everyone knowing each other and party cohesion.

You define a point in time when you make the connection and you learn a skill from each other.

"The connections between characters rule can give you bonus skills. At this stage, you may make (or finalise) a connection between your character and up to two other player characters. For each connection you make, you may gain one level in any skill, but you cannot bring a skill above level 3 using this rule nor may you take the Jack of all Trades skill."

For RP purposes this should be a skill the other person taught you or that you used while making the connection.

Optionally I could make a connection with Kendrick  Or anyone else who's interested for most recent terms I was
Psion Adept at school with special education

Drifter chosen for Psionics (already connected to Cain)

Drifter Betrayed by an old friend

Drifter with amnesia (don't know what happened)

Marine with leadership for successful assault on enemy

Before that I did something nepharious and secret

tsk tsk

I'll just have to rip it out of your mind ;-)

I like it Alex.

I was in charge of the assault boat that took you and your people over to the Basserman. We took heavy casualties in the first few seconds after we breached the hull and alot of the senior leadership of your squad was killed. You managed to rally your men and with my knowledge and your fighting skills we were able to pull it out of the fire.

What do you think?

Nera is human incidentally.

In reply to T'risa K'mahda (msg # 70):

You might have to do just that.

Sorry, I forgot it was just 2 connections for the purpose of gaining skills!
At least I've given a bunch of options.

Awesome Nera - I'll go with that.

As the commanding officer you would know that Alex is not human, not everyone can tell. Likely there would have been security clearance limits. But he performed well.

Hi All, just trying to get the Connection information straight in my mind.  Here is what I have (obviously, let me know if there is anything that I have misrepresented):

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With respect to specific Connection requests, I am sorry about the delay.  I am more than willing to connect (whether or not skills are involved - i.e., Prometheus willing, I'm willing to have more than two connections).  More specifically:

Alex:  I'd love to have some help with the prison break, it is part of Elsbeth's established backstory (she is a migrant from Prometheus' previous Pax Bellum game incarnation).  The prison has been previously established to be specifically on Enchoa Rhi.  What we know of Enchoa Rhi (via our illustrious GM) is:

Enchoa Rhi:  A Tae (terran) core colony that was taken over by Shiva, the Planetary AI, that governed the colony. Extensive eugenics were used by Shiva to breed bureaucrats, soldiers and bodyguards, often enhanced with cyberware or given completely cybernetic bodies.
    When Shiva was destroyed by the Terran AI known as Prometheus and six battalions of Tae marines, Enchoa Rhi was occupied by marines and the Colonial Authority admin for nearly 20 years.  Conditions went from bad to worse after the marines pulled out and the CA found bigger fish to fry.  Currently, the colony is violent, nearly lawless and a haven for criminal organizations, minor warlords, and less than reputable corporations.

If you are still interested in connecting, I'll draft up some additional detail for you to peruse.

Mixtlin:  Semper Fi, my friend.  Once a marine always a marine.  If you want to know Elsbeth (either through T'risa or Balkiir or separately), just let me know.  She was in the 359th Force Recon division before latching onto T'risa entourage/unit.  Any planetary assaults before or after she met T'risa would be fine with me.

Kendrick:  Similar to the Mix, but Elsbeth is much younger than you.  I am not sure what you did during your law enforcement days, but if you were on Enchoa Rhi (see Alex's blurb above) as a lawman in the wild west, perhaps we can work out a three-way connection (assuming that Alex is still amenable).

Lynn:  Could have met a long time ago - perhaps your father's mining colony supplied the Jannissary Station where Elsbeth was born and trained at that time.  Elsbeth is a product of eugenics and an accelerated adolescence training/cultivation program.  Perhaps one of the reasons that Lynn ran from her family business was when she saw the circumstances of some of the people working for some of the customers that your father was supplying.  Just a thought.

Cain:  Perhaps three terms ago you helped shuttle/smuggle one or more escaped prisoners off-planet (say... Enchoa Rhi)?  Could have earned you a Rival - perhaps one of your fellow explorers tried to rat you out?

Nera:  I'm actually not sure of the exact timing of your terms (I tried to parse your history post as best I could) - If your carried Elsbeth's unit on any of your carriers (probably especially two terms ago), that might be a great time to connect.  Plenty of planetary assaults, special ops and such all going on.  So, anywhere on the greyscale can probably be accommodated...

Looks good to me. I'm down with any connections. It's all good to me. :)

Awesome!

I kind of like the idea that Lynn and I have a connection. It looks like she served in Engineering immediately after I got promoted to command. If she was on the Galatana, she would have known me for making the life of the Engineering section hell. Nothing is worse than a CO who still thinks she is a power room tech.

Elspeth - We definitely might have crossed paths particularly later in my career.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:19, Fri 11 Sept 2015.

Elsbeth,

That's cool - yes I will take that connection.
I won't get an extra skill point for it but let's say my old friend turned enemy was a hacker rogue that turned you in to save his own hide. I helped you and your crew escape making it look like he had betrayed the cops he was trying to cozy up to and he never got his deal.

His name is Samuen Mahidi and he's pissed. I never understood why he tried to shoot me in the back or turn on you.

Even if it worked it wasn't good business. There must be something I don't know.

Nice work Elsbeth.  I'll make a connection with you, 4 terms ago, During Mixtzin's first planetary assault.  He could well have done the first aid for your injury.

Alex, Lynn and Elspeth can I have your last names please?

Lynn Winters.

Alejades PushK'Hal, was a  PFC in the Corps

By the way I would like you guys to know that Mixtlin has been doing some excellent background work on the Quetzl... I will be putting it up soon, so you can see what he hath Wrought.

ALSO if anyone wants to work up something to add to the game world Feel free. I love player additions..helps to make the game feel like something you are apart of.


Li''l Miss T'risa helped me work up the Concept of the Battle-witches...precog tactical, and strategic advisers....and something of a force in their own right in TAU and Valkiir circles.

We have a Neph player, which will be interesting. I've only recently decided to open up that race to play and I will love to see how it goes.

Soon I will be putting up a ship or two for purchase or use by team..And the great thing is these are ships I wrote up for Mongoose Publishing and are included in my to be released catalog for them....sadly they recently went into a revision cycle so I will have to rewrite them for the new rules..But you guys get to play with the versions I did already.

  Elsbeth Sinclair-Smythe

Named for her Batch (column) and Line (row) of the in-vitro fertilization pod (L-S Berth) of her particular eugenics clutch and lead technicians on project that spawned her ('Garland Sinclair' and 'Lorelei Smythe').

She is currently a Sergeant in the Colonial Marine Corps on special detachment duty with CASAR via request of the Marshal T'risa K'mahda.  Only Prometheus knows if she's actually been promoted beyond Sergeant at this point (it has been a couple of years since she helped T'risa start that war...).

Yeah...I was only a Lieutenant at the beginning of that one....

you must be...a Master Chief ;-)

Not sure if the CMC goes with Sergeant Major or Master Sergeant or some other designation really (Lance Sergeant?  Gunnery Sergeant?).  Or maybe just plain Sergent... *shrug*

Nice, like the Enchoa Rhi connection, so let's do that. Cain was sold-out by an envious rat-faced associate with dubious connections to the Navy known as O'Kenzie Edwardson, but came out of it okay when his superiors secretly congratulated him on a job well-done, while publicly disciplining him. Seeing Cain walk away relatively unharmed only increased O'Kenzie's ire.

I'll expand on this a little from GM info...

Balkiir was with a unit that gave security to a scout operation Cain served on, one that went wrong and ended up with the Marines and scouts protecting a Human minor race stuck in a fort from an Onai raid.

Balkiir owes Cain a few beers for piloting the extraction boat that picked up his platoon - it was a classic scream in blow the hell out of the Onai raiders, drop onto the roof of a burning prefab building then get the hell out pickup. Cain opted to scream in by piloting his ship right through a row of houses across the way from the fort, taking out a whole bunch of Onai as he did so and buying just that little extra time to get everyone out.

The ship was pretty crowded after that and although they might have been able to squeeze a few more on-board Cain opted not to risk it. Someone back at base got wind of it, having heard their brother died on the freighter, and swore to get revenge.

Sorry, been preoccupied. Should I assume that Lynn got swept up as they were shoved into the other room? Otherwise I have an idea to get myself in there.

I would assume if I were you. :)

HI ALL, by way of introduction my character is a genetic experiment between Humans and CESTI, it's one of the pesky alien abduction experiences of long ago.   My kind are a new race to the Cesti.

Still in character creation and need some help I'm currently in my sixth term but it is my first term as a drifter/ wanderer.   What skills tables are there for basic training.   My one event for this career was a crime, I'm thinking my character was implicated in one.   I was just thinking that this prison break would work, partly because I have two contacts, one from my army days and another from my years in the navy.

basic training for scouts are taken from your chosen specilizaion

Hmmm... the previous prison break on Enchoa Rhi would have been a few terms back (three to be specific - as per the table in msg #77).  But, I am sure that we can organize some connection in this last term, Tal, if necessary.  If you have a previous connection, with any of the team that is assembling, I am sure that some arrangement can be made to get you out of prison (and thus connect with others along the way).

Was there a final decision on skill packages?

GM - can I choose to not muster from my last job? I would continue to be attached to the University on Sabbatical or Secondment to this organization. Mainly fluff to say I am still a Associate Adept or Professor and might have a way to use university as a contact or resource.

I got 2 ship shares and a contact from muster out but could give those up or keep them as an advance for the future muster or whatever you think ...

An excellent question.  I'd like to pick up Sensors 1, so the package doesn't matter to me.

Yeah I would take Comms 1

And maybe Gunner 1 if we take two.

So Comms is in all of them.

Lets vote on the three skill packages to confirm which one we want then we can see about diving up the skills available.

I vote for for the Traveller Skill Package.  I think it provides the best variety of the 3 available.

Starship package is number two on my list and only if we don't have good star ship skills in the group.

all are ok by me -abstain from voting

Kronos Performs....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...list=RDMMBQfvanrGDVc

nice I think Alex will enjoy this - people watching at this show must really be fun.

Here's a publicity Shot of Kronos :D



For those new to the game Krons is a slightly rougish AI who decided he was going to run off and explore the stars...And took his 200kton Dreadnought chassis with him. After a few years of roaming the stars on his own he got bored and took up songwriting....and then became a rock star...Heavy Metal of course.

He sings ead His human girlfriend/fiance sings backup and dances, and he has a pretty solid following among Cyberoids( synthetic life forms), and humans alike. He usually puts on his shows by Hyper-net relay since until recently he was on the TAE most wanted list, and had several dedicated bounty hunter task groups after him.

Of course him showing up to lend a hand during  a major battle and then paying the TAE Fleet for his slightly banged  up Dreadnought body , as well as interest, damages, and penalties...charges were dropped and he now OWNS his very own dreadnought.

Any risk we can convince Kronos to join us?

Hmmmmm It looks like he's booked solid until next October, but he will swing by for drinks, and impending death of the human race if the situation arises.

and really do you want to be followed around by a small flotilla of fanboys/girls..and guys who want hi to look at their songs...I mean with all that going on you might be motivated to let the world end :D

I'd say Starship or Traveller skill package, but I'm not really bothered. I'll find something useful in any of them.

He did join us.

For a little bit.

and helped us mug a large enemy fleet.

I'd be happy to pick from any skill list. I think we're tooled up in Mercenary skills though.

Character Sheets are now open and editable... please post your sheets to help yer poor GM

Lynn, Cain, Alex, Nera and Mixtzin - I will try to get some verbiage going for any connections brewing; sorry, about the delay.  It has been a hectic couple of days.

As for the campaign Skill Package, Elsbeth can probably find a skill in any of them, though the Merc Package probably has the least appeal to her (she has everything except Medic and Comms, though she actually has Comms/0.  Admittedly, she could take any of the cascade skills with a different specialty, but that is less useful than a new skill, which either other the other packages would offer...).

If Elsbeth has her druthers... Both Starship and Traveller packages have either Gunner or Medic (or possibly Pilot) which would be her choices for the skill from them.  It sounds as though we need Starship skills; so, nominally she would vote for that (though as noted above, either package has the skills she is looking to obtain).

EDIT:  Love Poppy's new avatar.  Just too cool...
This message was last edited by the player at 20:22, Sun 13 Sept 2015.

Hey guys a couple questions.

HEV vs Combat Armor. Am I correct in thinking the HEV protects against things the combat armor does not?
Corrosive atmo and heat.

Also when getting armor as a muster out bene we can get any TL available to us, is that right? What limits?

The armour and weapon benefits doesn't carry the same verbiage as the other types of benefits, but for pretty much everything else (Combat Implants, Scientific Equipment, &c.), it says that you take the lowest TL for that type of equipment with the first benefit (Traveller Core Rules, pp. 34-5).

I guess that Prometheus would have to make a ruling if Weapons and Armour should follow the same pattern (in which case, it is likely the Combat Armour - which starts at TL-12 might be the better choice, HEVs base level is TL-8 or 9, I believe).

The reverse - being allowed to choose any TL, might get abused a bit, though; the TL-14 HEV, Vacc Sui, Combat Armour, or Subdermal Armour would be an outstanding piece of equipment.

HEV protects against heat, cold, corrosive gases, toxins,biological agents, and low level radiation... however it does not protect against pressure, or vacuum.

Combat armor can be sealed and protects against everything but corrosie gasses.however it can be used as a VACC Suit at Higher TL..thats why they so expensive.

Now that said the HEV suit will take a lot more environmental damage before it looses integrity, or leaks. You do not want to wade through pools of corrosive sulfuric tainted  sludge/water substitute for long in combat armor.

if you can afford it a nice set of each would be a good investment...use the right tool for the job, due to the brief nature of write ups for most gear there are a lot of small details and advantages left to the GM/Players...I do reward players who take the extra effort to play out those unwritten perks/drawbacks :D such as not having to have your combat armor decontaminated the seals replaced, and the filters scrubbed to get rid of the rotten egg smell from wading through the swamps of Androzani IVc..or having our rubber boots melt while walking through glowing green goop....resulting in an extra toe.

50Cr reward to anyone who knows where that reference comes from.

For me and my special weapon, I doubled the cost of a laser rifle and then I doubled the ammo cost plus half again for ammo but added together to get the replacement cost of the weapon but took tl 16 for the complicacy of the weapon and for all the bells and whistles that it has.

I, THE PLAYER, like the introduction of Poppy, it made me laugh.

Fallout! I think it was fallout 2 in the caves but I will have to google to be sure.

Hey Tal I recome you pick up two connections to get your bonus skill points.
Check our history on post 77 if you're really old I can tell you my previous stuff too. I Think we all have 2 contacts but we can take extras and not get a benefit for us so you can get your benefit.

Alex my character is 42 in Human years and six in Cesti years, I looked at the connections between you all.   My character's last stint was with the scouts I might know in passing Cain just not formally and vice versa.    I was first of the scene of a disaster in space.   Four years prior to the SCOUTS, I was in the NAVY, where an unfortunate accident, which cause the death of 47 sailors happened on my watch in the engine room.   I was ultimately exonerated of all guilt but I felt responsible enough to leave the service.   And prior to the NAVY, I served in the ARMY for 16 years.

I acquired one contact while in the army, another in the navy and the last one while in the scouts from my rescuing people or it could be my criminal association with Sal the MOOK.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:19, Tue 15 Sept 2015.

Tal Atvar, seems you've been around a long time like my character.  With three stints in the marines during your time in the army we could have a connection I think?

I have 60,000Cr burning a hole in my pocket, unless I've already partied it away. :)

Tal - I was also first on the scene of a disaster in space last term in the Scouts, so maybe we were joint first? ;) Could be the same disaster, and you could have been crew on the ship I was piloting? If not Cain did serve 3 terms in the Scout Service, so plenty of opportunity for an association there. We could know each other as well or as little (face/name recognition only) as you like.

Tal it looks like you've got options.

If you have lots of cash, might want to check out ways to personalize your gear. You can make your weapon biometrically secured and +1 to Attacks - see Eric's Custom gun in the book.

Also - I really took advantage of the house rule to gain a bonus event by taking a bonus mishap. If you have money you can afford the medical bills for possible injury it is way worth it for many careers.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:05, Tue 15 Sept 2015.

I apparently have 6.15 mega credits ...

Battledress will use that up.

Legendary captain indeed!

I've already got a Mishap, a Rival and an Enemy, think I've stacked enough against me!
This message was last edited by the player at 09:10, Wed 16 Sept 2015.

This is the first Traveller character that I've created who managed an entire career in a single profession, without mishap, rival or enemy, and who has no ranks in steward (very common in LBB Traveller).

I have added a new quirk to my background.   What officially got me out of the NAVY was two very important events.   One a very powerful accident which cost the lives of 47 people.   I am not responsible perse but I am responsible because it occurred on my watch while in the engine room.   Two I caught my CO in some illegal activity and I cooperated with the MP's.   In short the official whitewash forced me out.

Tal and I have the same Event for last term, and although I have made my two connections for skill purposes we've agreed to be familiar with each other from this instance, as per my post above (and Tal's PMs). No idea what Tal's skills are but as I said before, could have been on the same ship Cain was piloting (and on which Balkiir was a passenger).
This message was last edited by the player at 13:52, Wed 16 Sept 2015.

6.5 wow...She can almost afford a down payment on one of these


http://wbyrd.deviantart.com/ar...-Destroyer-560604231

Of course you may need to take out an extended term loan, and perhaps sell a few of the current parties less vital organs..it's only 3.773 Billion credits
But it has six cup holders, AC, AM/FM radio, and the best wet bar Valkiir technology can provide.

It also comes in a sporty blue





This is one of my new ships, I have been working with blender to get to a point i can actually model my own ships now :D

In reply to Tal Atvar (msg # 124):

Hi Tal, 5 terms ago I was a Marine. During that short tour I had two major battles and was trapped behind enemy lines thanks to the bonus mishap and bonus event rule I mentioned earlier. One of the battles was ship boarding with Nera.

Would you like to know me from the assault on enemy fortress? Or would you be one of the Army Pukes that rescued my tough but from behind enemy lines after the assault?

We need 4 or 5 of those for our scouting force.

Wow that's a big boat.

Only SIX cup holders? I'm out, cheap rubbish...

;)

Actually it's Just a destroyer, the really big boats are in the 20K Displacement ton range...and don't even look a the price tag on a Dreadnought.

A 1% finders fee for recovering a Standard dreadnought is around 1 Billion credits...After the last adventure, and allowing for the group that didn't come over to the new story line..adjusting for their share  of the loot...The party could have a slightly Used Jelisi in the parking bay....but after the TAU Ministry of internal Finance  gets through you may be looking at a used ships boat..

However a few of you have enough money to pool and purchase a nice commercial vessel, corsair, or low end cutter/Barque ( basically a civilian armed vessel about 300-400 tons.) or if your feeling ambitious something along the line of a Merchantman. 700-1000 tons heavily armed and rigged for both commercial and combat use...lots of room for labs workshops, vehicles....but then you would have to hustle to make the upkeep on that puppy...and wages for the larger crew...unless you sweet talk T'risa out of some of her share  of the reward money

a big difference here is that these ships do not have to carry tons of jump fuel since I use the alternate Hyperdrives for this game..so you have more room to play with when you go fixing up your ships..That's whats taking so long have to go back and tweak my Mongoose designs to work with Hyperdrives.

How much money I'll have for a ship depends on how well S'viim is managing my investment portfolio and what else is broken on my dreadnought.

You have a dreadnought!?  Bought and paid for?  If so, why are we looking at itty little things like a destroyer, unless we can fit it in the hold of the dreadnought and use it for a run-around....

Yeah, what she said...:D  Well, actually, how much Elsbeth has is really more a function of T'rias's largess...

We have a salvaged dreadnought, but it is in the shop...;)

Its in the shop for years, it was buried under the sand of a dead world and got the ever loving hell shot out of it by Kronos.

---

Kronos Kicking ass in Atmo...Q'sa Zero Kronos one

---

the crew went and recovered the hulk and restored enough systems to manage one good shot from it's spinal mounts..into the ass of  an unsuspecting Q'sa dreadnought which was Happily blowing the crap out of the Dreadnought "Prometheus, and Kronos at teh same time....result is the Q'sa god queen "SHE" too off like a bat out of hell before she could manage to kill Prometheus....his chassis/dreadnought crashed but he lived...which is why SHE wants T'risa dead, dead, oh so frikking dead.

as it is the Dreadnought will be in the yard for years, and T'risa has a small...cough cough stipend from the TAE, and YAU Imperium to pay for them being able to research the ancient tech aboard the ship...and incorporate it into their own systems...

The Valkiir just shrugged, we have some ships we can sell you at a discount...trade you for those nifty alien thigamabons...Technically Balkiir, Elspeth, and Poppy also have a healthy paycheck coming, as does anyone who signs on to the team...


The way the trust is set up is that any crewman on her team gets paid out of the rewward funds...so once you are officialy apart of the team money and goodies are easy to find....stayingg alive whie playing with them is gonna be a Biscotti

I'm in

S'viim is our trust fund manager.

Our research stipend also stipulates they have to repair our dreadnought too ;-)
Which T'risa is planning to use to create House T'risa as she's kinda fed up of the internal house politics.

T'risa's stipulations for buying a ship.
It has to have a powerful computer.
And a decent tactical station.
And be agile/quick

Nice to haves
Passenger berths (we ended up pulling a lot of sentients off Char in the end)
Weaponry and Shielding (for yay, we will have a scrap or two).

In reply to Alex (msg # 136):

I'm in as well.

In reply to T'risa K'mahda (msg # 137):

T'risa you may have my 17,000 cr. to help with the purchase of a ship all I want is ship shares for investment purposes.   Tal tries to live frugally so he doesn't need much in the way of stuff.

In reply to T'risa K'mahda (msg # 137):

T'risa you may have my 17,000 cr. to help with the purchase of a ship all I want is ship shares for investment purposes.   Tal tries to live frugally so he doesn't need much in the way of stuff.

I have 3 ship shares to contribute

Currently available:
Details forthcoming.
300 ton Barque, Fast, armored,good computer, armored Expensive...poor cargo capacity...set up as a mercenary vessel,

Civilian model Hunter killer/Pirate hunter( expensive as hell, but lethal in a fight)

500 Ton armed Merchantman: basically a well armed commercial vessel with lots of room for cargo passengers

600 Ton Surplus corvette. Well armed and armored, cargo capacity, and room for facilities...medium speed, and agility. Main weapons  rail guns, particle beams, missile bay.  bit of an ammo hog..

several 200 ton fast transports, 200 ton haulers. 200 ton Armed escort

Boat loads of 100 ton scouts, light transports, and gunships.( independently capable of Hyperspace travel)

Now available
Quetzl manufactured fighter 20 tons
Valkiir 75 ton patrol fighters
10 ton Tau swarm fighters

shuttles, boats, and gunskiffs ( not Hyperspace capable on their own need to be transfered to hyperspace by another vessel)

Prometheus..(the AI) has arranged for newly decanted Cyberoids in need of a sponsor to be available..."young" quirky, loyal as hell. Immune to Psionics, and mental manipulation...can be fast talked, or conned rather easily though.

I'd go for the 600 tonner personally.
Round off the crew with poppy, tiny and their siblings :-)

We can always hire a cargo ship to bring us more ammunition and resupply.

600 sounds like a good ship.   Can we afford it? I have two shares to invest

What is the price on the corvette? Also can it carry my cutter?

That is what I was wondering, can we afford it, maybe if all of us pitch in we might have enough for 1/10 the price of the 600 tonne ship.   I might get some extra funds from Sal the MOOK, but the repayment plan is steep, and Tal really wouldn't recommend money from a loan shark, he/ she would probably want a favor or two for that type of cred.   Just how much money is the cost for one ship share anyway?   Like I said I have 17000 cr. after purchasing all my gear.

Wouldn't an old beat-up old freighter work just as well, that way we can modify it to our heart's content and the enemy wouldn't believe that we were a Q-ship.   Reference to WWII merchant raiders used by the Nazi's.    Aren't we starting this adventure on a shoestring anyway, most of us, if not all have very little funds to purchase a new or used ship, being that we either just mustered out of our various professions and into CASAR's lap, as it were.   What can CASAR give us for this endeavor or are there any other assets that either the Alliance or anyone else can supply for that matter.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:41, Wed 16 Sept 2015.

Sorry mate a ship share is 1% of the cost so between 270,000 and 5 million C.

So by rights, the cost of a basic bare bones ships is 270,000,000 cr..   Alex, you have three and Kendrick has two shares of ship stock and either elsbeth, Nera or T'risa have 6.54 mega cr., that isn't even enough to buy a laser torpedo as it were.   I knew Alex that my 17k wouldn't go very far, Cain said in a post that he had 60k and that amt. wouldn't even help our predicament.

How did you and Kendrick get the shares anyway, were you officers or such within your careers?

I can have either 6mega credits or 20 ship shares, but im technically supposed to use it to set up a defense contracting bussiness. 20 ship shares might be more economical I guess

Wow that must be from one of the expansion books 20% of the ship is frigging amazing!

I got 1 from drifter and 2 from psion.

A lot of the classes have ship shares as muster benefits.

There are a lot of cool add-ons to your weapons or armor you could spend that 17k on. A wafer Jack and some software could give you new skills in a limited way. There's other stuff too.

I still haven't finished my equipment, so I have no idea how much I have.

Its is from the High Guard book, but it only available to High Command which is kind of a long shot. I was kind of hoping for Imperial Consort :(

I also rolled a cutter or 5 ship shares so technically I suppose I could get 25% of a ship. I am thinking of keeping the cutter though, give us a little more flexibility.

Nera if you take the 5 ship shares I think that puts us at 30% unless anyone else has ship shares.

Just as an example if we Gazelle Close Escort which is 217,800,000 - 30% puts the new cost at 152,460,000.

Mortgaged from the book at 1/240th of the cash price each month for 480 months puts us at 635,250 Cr a month.

Not sure what the minimum down payment would need to be but subtract that and the monthly would be less obviously.

So the really question is, how much can we expect to bring in monthly and pay the crew and the upkeep of the ship?  Considering were being billed as hero's there isn't much heroism in treasure hunting, merchant shipping, or mercenary work :P

I guess it comes down to how we expect to be getting paid?

I think you guys are focusing too much on the minutae. The gm would not offer us these ships if they were not available and outside our budget. It just means the threats we face will be bigger.

I like this kinda minutae...way to ruin it :P

Hell with it, lets get the best damn ship in the game and we'll worry about selling our kidneys later ;)

Worst case scenario we end up on Operation Repo lol.

Some thoughts on ship:

I liked the sound of the barque. Is your experience that bigger is better than fast from the previous game?

To make sure the game is fun I think having lots of robots around to do everything diminishes the hero aspect.

Will we pick up a few fighters?

The ship choice directly connects to the skills package.

So I have a few ideas on allocating skills since we seem to be more people than skills and we are not sitting at a table so it's hard to be fair.
1) To each according to need: let the person with fewest sp pick, then next and so on
2) everybody gets 1 - let everyone pick 1 skill if any are not picked offer them out individually.
3) everyone gets 2 - why would I even say that? What a go away.
There are lots of other ways I'm just considering.

If we pick a really big ship with lots of guns and fighters then we can keep everyone engaged by making sure several people can fly and or shoot.

If we go with a smaller ship with less crew then among the players we will need not only a mechanic engineer but also an assistant for dealing with 2 problems or getting bonus from aid another.

Same with sensor operator and gunnery and maybe astrogation or even pilot.

These are all connected. I vote for smaller fast ship unless size is really needed and picking traveler or starship package and make sure we have any fighter/shuttle pilots as well as primary and potential extras for each combat station.s
This message was last edited by the player at 10:09, Thu 17 Sept 2015.

For Space skills I've got: Astrogation-1, Sensors-1, Comms-0, Gunnery-0, Mechanic-0 and Pilot (spacecraft)-0.

My specialty is Pilot (small craft), ie. Fighters.

Mixtzin has: Medic 4, Pilot (Capital Ships) 2, Zero-G 2, Tactics (Military) 2, Comms 0 and Computers 0.  Great medic, OK pilot, and can lead a boarding party.  Otherwise, not much good on a ship.

I'd like a ship with good jump capability (2 or better), very good manoeuvrability, a very good computer (or even 2?), and plentiful hard points with top notch weaponry (even if we have to retro-fit it).  Lots of cryo berths would be better for carrying rescued folk: no life support or food and water, and with a good medic and a hospital/sickbay, little likelihood of death.

We might be able to buy decommissioned weapons to augment/upgrade those with which the ship is originally equipped.

A few spare staterooms would be useful, but not necessarily essential.

Wow Mix you are amazing too!

My best skill is telekineses 3 not always useful in spaceship battles unless you put me in my Cameleon combat armor and have me fly psionically to the enemy ship and telekinetically disable their engines or use machine symbiosis to mess with Thier life support sensors and what not.

I am mainly a stealthy streetwise pistol and energy sword warrior.

On ship I have computer 1, mechanic 1, engineering 0, all science 0, astrogation 0

I have a wafer Jack and get a couple new 1 skills for INT and EDU only for 1k each and can psionically add skill points for a round or three in extremis.

I could be assistant engineer especially with engineering wafers.
I could take pilot and be a fighter guy +2 on Dex ...
Or take gunnery and assist in shooting
or both pilot and gunnery if 2 skills
Or stick with sciences and take something like sensors 1 from the list.

I am glad to let T'risa or anyone give advice for direction to be useful on crew.p
This message was last edited by the player at 18:08, Thu 17 Sept 2015.

To be honest, I don't have a roundup of your characters skill levels. It might be best for the GM to decide where we'd all best be suited.
T'risa doesn't have any directly applicable starship skills.
Leadership and tactics (naval) and tactics (ground) might be her forte.

Given events of the last game, she'd probably look at the roughest, toughest ship available that has enough cargo capacity to allow storage of mecha and fighters.

My character isn't a pilot, he can drive that's about it.  Rest of his skills have more to do with covert ops type recon work or over-watch.  he's quite specialized in his abilities however he would be a definite asset in boarding parties.

I'm a mechanic. If it has parts, I can bre...fix it. Yes, fix it.

I have pilot (starship), Tactics (Naval), Comms, and a bunch of other mechanic/electronic type skills. I also have one 'pick any skill' I haven't decided on yet

Hey I don't know if having a share of the ship provides any benefits but if it does I'll gladly sell one of my ship shares to you Tal (GM permitting) for your extra cash. I could buy some software and a Medkit for my armor.

If the benefit is only pride I'll give it to you for nothing. (: cause they're all going the same place. I won't take your money if that's the case.
I doubt we can trade but I'm open.



Yup sounds like the 600 - So I'm looking forward to the details on the choices.  But would like to assume we can put everything together in one loan - fighters, ships boats, ship, ammo, extras. We know we have 1 solid fighter pilot. A driver - for our ATV, a solid mechanic plus Poppy. More than enough leadership a witch(bridge) a backup pilot senior officer captain comm person. A rennaissance doctor .... Any gunners?
This message was last edited by the player at 01:10, Fri 18 Sept 2015.

I thought I'd take a moment to explain a few points of interest. I never planned of this to be a typical Traveller campaign, gear, money, moneymaking etc.... were not the primary focus.  You'll have pretty liberal access to all the nice toys. and making money is not a real issue...what ever you have for your character is yours to customize gear, pick up things that the Quartermaster.(poppy) overlooked. Or to use for your own private purposes.
as art of the operation, S'viim and Poppy came up with a standard gear package for players.

In short one of the features o this game is you get to play with all the toys you may never have gotten to play with before. You guys are going to find money and support easy to come by by the typical Traveller scheme.

Ya wanta fighter, Battle dress, phased plasma rifle in the 40 Kilo-watt range...Odds are you can get it..without weeks of game pay, jumping through hoops or dealing with shady loan sharks who will happily repossess your frontal lobe should you miss a payment.


Uniform
cloth Armor (Tl-10) Protection 5, Smart cloth, Eye protection ( snazzy shades) Ship Patch, Cap,magnetic boots, and com dot, and comm(Tl-8 with computer/0),breather mask.



Personal weapon(chosen by character)   1000
Tool Kit                              1,000
Vac-suit              Tl-8   24kg     7,000
Medi-kit              Tl-8    8kg     1,000   can monitor blood pressure, vital statistics.
Personal computer     Tl-12             500
Comm                  Tl-10             500   Multiple forms of data,Computer/1

Survival Pack
Rescue Bubble
Breather mask                           150
Enviro Suit                             500
Combo Ir/Lo-lite goggles               1250
Binoculars           Tl-8               750

Total Cost                            13,150
group gear
Six Sets  Standard gear               79,400
2 Air rafts
4 Grav Bikes
4 Grav Floaters                        2,000
2 Thruster packs                       4,000
Habitat Module                        20,000  Pressurized, powered, life support for 1 week.
Total common gear                    105,400


Ship Shares: instead of using them to buy the ship once you have decided on what ship you want I will figure up how much all available ship shares are worth and let you buy upgrades, and extra vehicles/small craft to use on missions. if you don't have a ship share, hold onto your cash, or let me know how much you are giving poppy/S'viim to invest, or use for equipment purchases.

From experience I know that T'risa is not one to say.."no shares..no part in decision making" in effect if I know T'risa all of you are in on the command decision process and will probably be tapped on occasion to take charge of your own little niche in the game...after four years of playing with her I noticed a few trends...

I will assure you if a character spends money oh his own gear I will make sure that that expenditure makes his toys better than standard issue gear...

Such as "Mix" who gets a spiffy set of specially fitted Battle dress for his use, and Alex who has Nephilum manufactured gear when he pays for it...Tal on the other hand can through his contacts secure untraceable off the books hardware..etc...

I have astrogation, vacc suit, zero gee and gunner at level 0, mechanic at level 2  along with pilot small craft i.e shuttle craft at second level.   Jack of all trades is at level three.    I had thought the rest of you had picked a group skill set already, hence my taking carouse, but if not, I really don't care which package set is chosen.

When are we going to pick a Skills package? Also need to finalise skills from our connections, too.

Cain- you pick any skill you want for connections. Can't boost higher than 3

Tal- JOAT at 3 is awesome - you can do anything -

Wow! Is all I've got to say for the GM. what fun.

So far nobody is a gunner 'cept Tal who can do anything. Pilot small craft could make Tal our second fighter pilot if he wants.

This will certainly help me think through where I want to be.

So on the bridge is Nera who may be the best starship pilot and Comms. T'risa as witch.

In engineering is Lynn

Fighter pilots; Cain, and Tal - if he wants to do that

Boarding party with stealth bonus Kendrick and Alex of course I'm sure we will all do it sometimes.

Medic Mix has skills that can move him anywhere and he can fly capital ships if we ever steal one.

Gunnery: ? Nobody yet.

Bridge crew: Sensors, astrogation, Comms: who's Mr Spock?

Am I understanding? If no one steps into those roles I could support gunnery or mr Spock when not sneaking and boarding.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:59, Fri 18 Sept 2015.

Tal,could be, the gunner or weapons officer as well as the second fighter pilot when something happens to Cain, like when Cain needs a break, is in the hospital with appendicitis or something like it, you know we all could catch a cold or the flu, who know what Prometheus will throw at us.   Or happens to be in the latrine when the fight starts, in short anything can happen to our small command crew so it behooves us to be cross trained in many functions,

the Corvette up for sale has been posted..The image is one of my new models so I hope you like it....

The ship needs more crew than you currently have so NPC crewmen will fill in when players are not available..they are currently not detailed, but You can ask for details as you wish, recruit better NPCs, or create secondary characters to take over those slots :D

as soon as you guys are ready I will progress the game briefly to allow you to purchase a second ship....this one wil cost the party real credits, not virtual credits earned form the last game series...

By the way your ships shares are worth about 3 million per share in upgrades or auxiliary craft/fighters for the ship.

Awesome, but image is a little dark for my phone.

I would love to create a secondary character for those slots. Just not sure if I would likely make one worse that the one you would use.
  Are we better off not trying to use a Broker roll on this stuff? I did buy Broker expert software and can emulate broker 1 on my water Jack or use all my psi points and maybe get a strong broker skill for a short time ...

By second ship do you mean fighters and ships boat type things or another main craft?

Are all these weapons Gunnery? Or are some Capitol Weapons?

Can we finalize the package skill selection ?
I think people were leaning toward Starship skill package vs Traveler.
Both have Pilot, Gunnery, Sensors, Comms, Medic
Starship has enginering, mechanic, Astrogation.
Traveler has persuade, gun combat, and stealth.

There are 8 skills in one package and 10 of us.
Do we each just pick one?, or start with greenest person or youngest or whatever let them choose then go person to person until all are gone? Do skills get chosen twice? Or maybe include both packages 11 seperate skills and we each get to take one in some order?
We need final say from GM.

I have a copy of the Rules and Central Supply Catalogue.  Which other book/s are worth having in terms of personal weapons and equipment?

Let's just use the starship skill package and move on.   FYI I having nothing in starship skills.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:08, Sun 20 Sept 2015.

Since there are 10 people, teach person gets one skill even if the skill has been picked already.

a second Ship would be a Starship. But this one would be up to the players to financed and pay for. The primary ship is paid for by the group trust  fund, with busy little goblins doing the paperwork and making payments on schedule...

fighters and shuttles are also available...especially Valkiir fighters...The Valkiir love to fly, and love to fly fast agile dangerous as hell toys.

I think I would like to do the fighter pilot thing, if possible.
Is it Gunner (Turret) one uses to shoot from a small craft?
I will take that if so - can use it in fighter and in big ship combat.


Question - Why are we getting a second starship? If we spend our ship shares upgrading this one and buying fighters and whatnot I don't know how we would expect to self finance another ship.

Second Ship:I Mentioned it as an option only

Gunner turret is the proper skill for fighter gunnery..

Another starship works better than a set of fighters because some of us are more lovers than fighters.

Although I could love a fighter I guess...

The corvette is rigged to carry two 30 ton craft...either fighters or shuttle/boats.

you could knock out the separating walls of the bays, and carry one 50-60 ton craft if you wanted to.

If we are going to do a starship, how about something small 100T or less with stealth coating and the most advanced electronics suite you can get?

Our Corvette has 100T max capacity hookups for external Fuel pods - we get our stealth ship at 100T with the right hookup and we can fill one of the fighter bays or some of the cargo area with fuel bladders or something.

I'm sure you guys have better resources but if we take a police cutter
55,692,000
ADD stealth 10MC
TL 12 Electronics +3MC
Model 4 computer  5MC -30k
It's

73,662,000
This message was last edited by the player at 18:39, Sat 19 Sept 2015.

I guess if we're going for a second ship we better get busy making some money, I have gambler at 0 but it's still a skill I have, but I do like the idea of a 100t craft.   I like the idea of a runned down freighter, a police cutter, would do just fine, also known as a Q-SHIP, luring in our prey.   All of sudden, instead of one ship, the bad guys have to battle now there is two.   The key word is runned down, the second ship has to look like it is barely hanging together.    Due the fact, that we are going to have to spend our real funds for this ship, it would be ours and not somebody else' toy.

Maybe we could have the second ship in drydock and we use the CASAR ship for now until either we make enough money or we buy the ship from them.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:10, Sat 19 Sept 2015.

Each Shipshares is 3MCr Kendrick and I have 5 - that's 15mcr
Nera has what 20? 25? That's 75Mcr+15= 90MCr. Could buy that cutter outright and add a Fusion gun or something. I wouldn't just buy the second ship. But pay enought down to keep the payment reasonable for those who have cash and use the rest to get better weapons, ammo and whatever.

In reply to Alex (msg # 182):

That could work.

Of course an older ship will be 1d6% cheaper per 10yrs and you roll on that table for effects 3/12 of the rolls are good (:

If we all paid 4k/month it would only cover 1MCr so I think we won't be making enough money to make a mortgage worthwhile just on salary.  We might want to pay outright for the starship a fighter and any other upgrades with our 90+MCr. And that's assuming Nera wants to put all her shares into it.

--break-break--

I just discovered the skill replacements and will be replacing a science and a leadership with instruction.

That means I will have instruction 2 and will be able to teach stuff I know when we start playing.
Might be fun and it fits the background.

Mixtzin That's what I used
This message was last edited by the player at 01:15, Sun 20 Sept 2015.

Prometheus has allowed me a little back-tracking.  Mixtzin can now contribute about 5.9MCR towards stuff for the ship.

Wow, well arent I the selfish Git. I spent all my money buying really cool gear.

I've been bouncing back and forth between working on stuff and dealing with a 2 week migraine, so I still don't have a full list yet.

I do have a hydrospanner with three settings. Low, High, and Who Needs A Man

15MCR on personal gear?  Must be some pretty spiffy stuff!

15 MCR, more like 9MCR.  The other 6MCR I believe are my ship shares which I thought would go to the ship but now I guess I can come up with something else to do with it :P

I thought I was rich with 102k
87k after medical expenses
This message was lightly edited by the player at 21:17, Sun 20 Sept 2015.

I asked Prometheus for permission to spend up to 100kCR from 6MCR (2 Ship Shares).  I propose to spend a significant chunk of the rest on stocking the sick bay.

I was wondering during ship boarding actions are they boarding pods that you can launch and have bury into the side of a ship breaching the hull so that troops can get in?

Most small craft can be fitted with breaching tubes that cna cut into a ship...the draw back is they are really crunchy and most other ships have weapons that can pop them like balloons.

So - does Nera want to spend her ship shares on a starship? Or do you have other priorities? How many ship shares?

Does anyone want something particular with this starship? Does anyone have any basic designs we can start from? I can move forward and do something if it's what y'all want.

Kendrick, are there particular thing you want to spend ship shares on.

GM are the Shipshares and boats from the NPCs available?

I'd advocate one bay for a fighter, one for a shuttle of some description.

I'd keep the hardpoints for extra fuel.

I shall be sleeping in the engine room. Because I can.

I call dibs then on Lynn's bunk so that I can get a room to myself :)

In reply to T'risa K'mahda (msg # 195):

So ... No extra star ship?

Spend money to improve this ship?

If we do 10T fighters we can have 3 in a bay. Then a ships boat with laser and missiles in the other bay. We can make the ships boat stealth. And or the fighters.

I would like to set up a science lab.

I'm all about a stealth boat for boarding actions

The engine room is very cozy, just watch back near that primary buffer panel it's been shaky for weeks now.

NPCs may have their own vehicles, but they wont be contributing ship shares right off the bat...

also I will be handling the ships financial paperwork at my end since you guys are being sponsored and most of the ships finances are being..quietly paid for by higher level powers.

Basically tell me what you want added, and role play out a short discussion with the yard boss, and we'll get on with the game...

Pfft, we can always hire local merchants to bring us more ammunition, provide lift capacity if we need it. In the worst case scenario we can always do what we did in the last game, it amounted to us hijacking an arms shipment together with the freighter carrying it to Her forces.

Stealth boat sounds reasonable, although I'd expect it only to work against Tae/Tau forces with stealth. Given our experiences T'risa would go with rugged over stealthy every time, althuogh rugged and stealthy provided cost is not prohibitive would be better

As for improving the ship, we already have some proposals.
Upgrading the sick bay sounds perfect
Upgrading science lab, I'm also good with.
I have matters in hand for upgrading the shipboard computer.
I'd possibly make her quicker, but as our cargo space is limited I'll leave it as is. We need enough room for all of our mecha/low berths/salvage. I'd rather have the space to grow what we need into it.

I'd probably take most of the spare crew slots we need filled as cyberoids but with one or two seasoned vets to oversee them (T'risa has a strong connection to artificial sentients). We make up most of the crew in any case. Not that many spare slots left over.

Allow me to introduce myself I am Serana Operating number 22-159-SRN-997 C. Formerly on Indenture to the Terran Unified Defense fleet.... The ships core is sufficient for my needs. If you would like I can pop over to the shipyard and incorporate myself into your ship ...for a small fee, and certain arrangements to allow for my personal time.

Not sure I'm keen on having a ship AI with overhead expenses :P

Look DaveKendrick, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

At least, I am pretty sure that is what Serana would say...

First time I hear "I can't do that Dave" I go attempt a reprogramming with a fire axe.

Good idea.

[1] Even better idea.

[2] I like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xO9Vr_nBE8

I feel that is a far more accurate description of my Personality matrix. Hides her collection of Andromeda videos, and life size hologram of Cortana.....

And emergency protocol seven.."Hit it with and Axe" is reserved for Hecate class Warframes who have forgotten that humans made us :D

I'm liking the idea of two armed armored fast stealthy ship's boats better than fighters.

Need more discussion. Of our goals for deciding how to modify the labs. I do have some thoughts on it. But ... Is there something we need to figure out scientifically about HER? Or is it all tactical?
My first question: is she a member of a known race and community or unknown or unique organism? Also does she have organic physical body or something else? As a combined corollary. Are these things we need to figure out. Will there be forensic studies to be done? Etc.

I might not need two labs if it's limited.

Stealth pods could be acquired..you would need to make a short trip to a HUB colony, or Main naval Yard for them though...no problem there ..consider it a test rive.

Cyberoids are standing by, and several organic veterans are interested n a job as well.


SHE, which is the actual name the "Witch queen of the bug-lizards" goes by. is a memebr of an extinct caste of the Q'sa. A high queen which at one time ruled a large portion of Osahdii space.

According to a witness and data files found on the same world as SHE, they are psionic, tech savvy, and instinctive strategists. Up until about 100-50 thousand years ago they were  at war with the O'sahdii and the first wave of humans taken off world and resettled..And for the most part the Queens  are why none of the first wave colonies and races exist today....it was after all a war between to groups equally as powerful, and ten generations ahead of current technology...even the Osahdii lost ground Tech Level wise during the Great war.

What humans know as the Q'sa are survivors of a domestic servant caste of the Original Q'sa, basically their chambermaids., cooks, and garbage collectors.A Q'sa warrior, or warrior queen Q'sa is stronger faster, and smarter than any Q'sa met before...You can ask Elspeth and Balkiir about those..they are the only humans who have fought them face to face in 50,000 years.

So yeah your gonna need labs, fortunately Modern labs are designed  to be multi-functional and compact with nano-machine based manufacturing devices to supply any particular device you need...You can fit a modern CSI lab into a broom closet with he tech available for A Pax universe Ship.

Actually when it comes to scientific, and computer gear the average tech level for common use is around TL 15-17 compared to Typical Imperium standards, AI assist is common, psuedo intelect computers are everywhere..

your frikking kitchen can have it's own personality..it's not sentient but it is a very good imitation of a living personality.Kids have Virtual Intelligent toys, that act as health monitors, and security systems..up to the pint of being armed.

 Holographic systems are hi res full color, near perfect...at least in stationary entertainment systems. The field units are monochrome high res, and tend to glitch a bit when shaken or subjected to rough treatment.

So in effect a single lab is fine, TWO labs is great!!! It's the equivalent of a typical hospital, or major city crime lab.

In the last game, the GM allowed situational bonuses based on what we'd uncovered about our opponents.

BTW EMP grenades should be considered mandatory equipment for everyone.

Wow very interesting history. I love the depth of backstory.

So for the lab all I need to do is define what software (expert systems) I want the AI to run? Do I have a funding limit?

Regarding the Heavily armored weaponized stealth ships boat assault vehicles...that's what you mean by stealth pods? And we can get them?
Let's go ... Maybe I should've asked for more. - oh yeah computer and evasion software upgrades!

Thanks, had some help wit that forma friend who supplied me with the idea for an ancient war that the Osahdii had ot cheat like hell to win...so that should tell you how bad having that Queen around could be...She Knows things the Osahdii have forgotten.

Yeah by pod I am referring to the armored assault boats..

the budget for a Lab is about 100k for programs that come with the system...it's covered under the total cost of the lab...which is around  1 MCr...since you have two labs you can tailor one for one set of skills, and the other for a second

This message was deleted by the player at 21:10, Tue 22 Sept 2015.

Okay looking at this for labs outside all the tech ability please give me any reccomendations

Considerations for lab:
Sciences Lab and an Analysis Simulation and xenotechnology lab
So one section of the lab is focus on physical and biological samples analyzing a materials and microorganisms and anything on along the physical and biological vine the other lab is focused on analysis strategy it looks at the history battles the known strategies of the QSAR I and helps to analyze what their goals might be whereresources are and specifically how Q so Teknowledge he works so that we can develop strategic I intercepts


 Engineer (specialized in Qsa engineering +1)
1   Electronics
1   J-Drive
2   Life Support
1   M-Drive
    Naval
2   Power
    Small Ship Systems
 Physical Sciences
2   Chemistry
1   Electronics
2   Physics
 Social Sciences
2   Archeology
1   Economics
1   History
2   Linguistics
1   Philosophy
1   Psychology
2   Sophontology
 Space Sciences
1   Planetology
1   Robotics
2   Xenology
 Life Sciences
2   Biology
1   Cybernetics
1   Genetics
2   Psionicology

102k
Intellect 2 50k
AutoScientist 28k based on the autodoc with software stripped out. Edu 12 int 9 physical body able to interact with both labs
Repair Robot 10k extra physical body under AI control.

Databases:
  Physical sciences 1k
  Life sciences 1k
  Social sciences 1k
  Space sciences 2k
  Q'sa and Oshahadii all known data supplemented by Nephilum 5k
This message was last edited by the player at 21:21, Tue 22 Sept 2015.

okay programs wont be a problem and you cna swap them out as needed..the rating of a computer is a measure of how much you have active at once..not whats stored on the drive....which is a lot..you could put the library of congress and the imperial archives on most hard drives.

If you want a mobile assistant, Might  I suggest paying a visit to the Cyberoid Daycare...The fee for sponsoring a cyberoid fresh from the tanks is not that much, and for the next seven years you have a boy/girl Friday...that gets a nice allowance each month...and insurance, and requires it's own little area..which is why they take up 1.5 tons..they need a recharge and "sleeping" berth for the first few years..till they get a full sized room.

Investment for a Basic cyberoid is 50K for a stock standard mechanical frame...just don't let poppy see it she'll cry..and rush the poor thing off to the boutique with YOUR credit card. Then give you a very hard look for not seeing that the youngin' was properly "dressed" for polite society.

Its the same stats as a Drone control unit from Highguard...with varying abilities the same as the TL of the Drone unit..only these fellas have human bodies, and personalities

Okay so instead of spending 50k for expert and 28k for robot body stuck in lab I need to spend 50k for cyberoid and 10-15k for wafer Jack or neural comm and I get more functionality because he gets starting 0 skills and can leave the lab and be my shiny pal that's always fun to be around!

Is that right?

First one I looked at didnt cut my examination standards, second one was awesome. Can I take him or her? Should I make up the quirks?

By the way - those crew I rolled up- were they not supposed to all be cyberoid? I could fiddle and make them other species for fun.

The Comms officer could be Foo...

19:47, Today: Alex rolled 10,11,9,7,3,12 using 2d6,2d6,2d6,2d6,2d6,2d6.  Attribute.
EDU10,Soc11,Dex9,STR7,END3,INT12


Marvin - Brain the size of a planet and this is how they use me...

Quirks - Everything hurts needs lots of pillows - wears an HEV suit for any opportunity, but it hurts...
This message was last edited by the player at 09:14, Wed 23 Sept 2015.

If y want to generate NPCs for me, feel free to use any race..this goes for anyone else as well.
That would be a lot of fun for the GM by the way..
Coms officer : 23^*^% Fizzzikt squueeeeeee
Race: Foo
Nickname: Fitz McSparks

and yes any NPC you create you canput quirk...and the GM will add one or two surprises. Poppy started out as a one off NPC and look where she has gotten to.....on second thought lets not..she's a little crazy....<ducks phantom head slap by fictional character> see what I mean she is not at all  well behaved figment of my imagination :P

While AI cyberoids are cheaper in the base model..they are independent and may not always operate quite like you want..your getting a multi-million dollar piece of kit for pennies on the dollar...the idea is that you are the final stage of their creation/assimilation into society...

If you want to pop over to the Inception Center ad RP the meeting Ill set it up.

Yes, I would like that - is it another alternate timeline?

we can do it after the meeting at the ship yard.

You and Tal will be having fun over at the entertainment center off and on for the next couple of days. It may take that long to get any real info...but since it's something you can do in your down time it's not going to cause any continuity problems.

as a not eon AI they aren't programmed instead they are created by placing a seed program in a virtual reality sim..and giving them a few million cycles to gather experience and data...at some point they awaken as fully sentient synthetic life forms..or fail to develop sentience...

annnndddddd occasionally one goes batty during the  final stages after they become sentient and is shipped off to the AI version of the funny farm....yeah there's a giant server full of psychopathic AI out there somewhere....hidden in a sealed habitat somewhere unlivable to both synthetics and organics, protected by a small army of non sentient war machines, and  a squadron of AI operated fighters...just hope the AI version of the Joker/Hannibal never escapes.....hmmm well now there  is a scenario I hadn't thought of yet....

Had those boats and pods on the back burner for months, well since last October when i wrote them up for a ship catalog for mongoose....dern thing is still on the editors desk since they started a revision of the rules.

Have most of  the second catalog worked out and waiting for the go ahead..military vessels this time

In reply to Prometheus (msg # 222):

Sound like you are pretty close to Mongoose and their game of traveller, designing ships and all.

Did you notice in my post yesterday in the entertainment ctr. that I invented a game for the Cesti?   It's called Baklec.   When it is done right, it puts Klingons playing with their batleths to shame.

Unfortunately I am just a free lance writer they had do a book for them....they don't let me in on the secret meetings and company vacations :P

Yep saw the post, and Baklec is a great way to work off some energy, and loose a limb or two if your not careful :D

If there are to be lots of EMPs around, is it possible to make all kit proof against them?  Central Supply Catalogue (p188) allows for Ruggedized augments.  Can this be applied to other kit?  Mixtzin would be more than a little miffed if his Battle Dress, Gauss weapons and other useful bits ceased functioning just for the lack of this precaution.
This message was last edited by the player at 08:58, Thu 24 Sept 2015.

Here's some silliness.
I rolled up a Foo for the fun of it. My initial attributes made me think it would be lame. But meet Sol, maybe ze (not sure if Foo have male and female) can be our lawyer. Former navy captain O5 in the core rules and an experienced Broker R6. Ze can come find us anywhere no need for a ship and for an appropriate emergency fee ze can even fix a broken ship.

Be careful Sol is a good lawyer and frequent liar. If there's no need for an NPC maybe I'll make zem my Ally when T'rissa throws me in the brig I can "Just call Sol".

Edu 8, +1111 = 12
End 6, +111 =9
Str 3, -2 +1 =2
Soc 2, -2 = Soc 10 for being Navy Captain
Dex 5,+1 = 6
Int 7 +11111 +3 =15

Comms 0, computer 0, Astrogation 1
Pilot 0, Vacc Suit 0, Zero G 0, Gunner 0, Mechanic 0, Gun Cmbt 0, trade 0,
Engineer (Electronics) 3, Engineer (Power) 1, (naval) 1, (small craft) 1
Melee Blade 1, Leadership 1, deception 1, Admin 1
Diplomacy 1, Tactics (Naval) 1, Carouse 1, Streetwise 2, Broker 2, Advocate 3
Gear: Ship's Boat, 8 Ship Shares, weapon, blade
This message was last edited by the player at 00:08, Fri 25 Sept 2015.

Since Tal and I are working together can he roll edu or int streetwise to give a bonus to my streetwise that will contribute its effect to my gambling?

Also can he similarly to aid another with gambling?

What are the difficulty DM s ?
How much does Tal want to bet?

I could use some help from someone with a very good understanding of the computer/human/weapon interfaces.  I'd like to have Mixtzin's equipment list checked to be certain that I've set things up properly.  Advice on software could be useful, too.

Thanks

Updated the design after figuring out how to get the textures right. This is the ship you guys just bought.

Getting the paint job, and turrets, right was a pain in the tookus......

sorry for the delays, but i had to put some serious effort into an RL issue, and trying t learn this modelling thing on my own is a pain....But with this skill added to my bag of tricks I can do more of my own work..so I guess you can call it work related delay.

That's a very nice toy we've got.  Thanks for your efforts.

Thanks for the support

On the bright side, I can claim it as a work related study project....this is going in the book I am working on .... you guys get to play with it and break it before anyone else...

In reply to Prometheus (msg # 231):

You're doing a great job so far, just keep it up and keep a stiff upper lip as it were and it will all work its self in the wash as it were.   And yeah we get to break something in new before anyone else.   No really it's really great that you are putting so much effort into the game for us.

Thanks Rick, the player

In reply to Prometheus (msg # 229):

What no battle scarring? I MEAN JUST HOW ARE WE TO KNOW ITS BATTLE WORTHINESS, I mean really.   LOL, great color scheme and thanks for the work you're putting in.

Nice! Looks kickass to me.

Been a busy week, next week should be more of the same. :(

Does this suit the battle tested and weather worn look.

sad thing is that is a few button clicks, and a prefab texture to make the change..it took me a week to figure out textures now its down to button clicks and artistic taste

oh yeah, I like that

Of course it should be green/black when seen from above, and blue when seen from below, like WWII fighter planes.

;)

It should be black, 'coz it's high tech, with red pin striping, to make it go faster, and some fuzzy dice...

Can we get an SEP field for it?

My vote would be for purple.
Just because it's the best colour ever.

What's that?

Somebody else's problem.

Ok

My favorite color is, like, clear.

I disagree, but only in degree.  Violet is the bestest colour.

Then we'd have Wonder Woman's spaceship...

"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye."

Somebody Else's Problem field, or SEP, is a cheap, easy, and staggeringly useful way of safely protecting something from unwanted eyes. It can run almost indefinitely on a torch (flashlight)/9 volt battery, and is able to do so because it utilises a person's natural tendency to ignore things they don't easily accept, like, for example, aliens at a cricket match. Any object around which an S.E.P. is applied will cease to be noticed, because any problems one may have understanding it (and therefore accepting its existence) become Somebody Else's. An object becomes not so much invisible as unnoticed.

A perfect example of this would be a ship covered in an SEP field at a cricket match. A starship taking the appearance of a large pink elephant is ideal, because you can see it, but because it is so inconceivable, your mind can't accept it. Therefore it can't exist, thus ignoring it comes naturally.

An S.E.P. can work in much the same way in dangerous or uninhabitable environments. Any problem which may present itself to a person inside an S.E.P. (such as not being able to breathe, due to a lack of atmosphere) will become Somebody Else's.

An S.E.P. can be seen if caught by surprise, or out of the corner of one's eye.

Slartibartfast's ship, Bistromath, is covered in an SEP field.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:05, Mon 28 Sept 2015.

The barbarian sneak thief..

Thud..thud..thud...guard looks up as Massive  barbarian with battle axe and belt of severed heads trudges up....

"You see me?"
"Uh..yeah..."
Whumpppp gisssshhh, guard goes down in a spray of blood...barbarian looks at second  guard "You see me?"

"Nope...."

Sub-tull barbarians, thats what we like...

Now Tal and Alex get to meet a Valkiir Goodfella......

can ya imagine how rough that game  is...Cops who have access to psionics, and crooks...erm businessmen, who have access to precogs......and both can lay hands on heavy weapons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNuL8cVxXMA

Batou the big guy, is a good example of the more..direct.... Valkiir cops....that's why they like Hiring Tae trained cops. Like the kid in the clip...they put them together.

It wasn't your wife or daughter you saw...

Sorry for the delay, had to deal with an issue...my girlfriends best friend was killed so had to be around for her, and attend the funeral and such. will resume in the morning....sorry...Murphy has been a real pain in the ass...two deaths at my girlfriends business...in three days...I need an adult beverage, of considerable potency.

Very tough.  My condolences to both of you.

wow that must be very difficult.

Yeah, shes trying t get over having a friend murdered....

I've never dealt with murder I imagine the emotions must be intense. I hope she is not at risk and is able to grieve.

no further risk of violence....the cowardly little twerp is no longer among us...it'snot party most of the people that work at he place of employment are in their early 20s absolutely no experience with this sort of thing....most of them it's the first time they have lost a friend.

I lost my fiancee and my unborn son when I was still in college, so I can relate somewhat. It's a pain that never goes away. For whatever it's worth, my condolences to both of you.

I'm more  mad than anything..she was a really sweet girl....and he was stereotypical "little big man"  a little piece of crap who could only beat up on his girlfriends. I worked security for years, I have had to stand outside of places just in case little twerps like this  showed up to make a ruckus...they piss me off....If I had my way I'd beat them senseless once a week whether they needed it or not....yeah a little bitter about these sort of things.

the sweet demure lady Alex and Tal are about to meet :D...what did you expect, black pinstripe suit and fedora???

Cool

In reply to Prometheus (msg # 255):

Yes I expected a suit and fedora but okay, not really but still a godmuther, yes I am at camp grenada, why do you think it took me so long to write my post.   LOL, no seriously though nice pic and I was trying to figure a way to incorporate the party post by Mixtzin into my post is all.

On the RL front, I'm sorry for your lose.

Yeah, we can be the only ones at the party with dates! Hopefully they don't rob the place, or us.

Hey IUOU here, not sure how to integrate. I can show up in response to a wanted sign or meet one of my buds on the street, Guys?

Hi IUOU, you could lurk around the ship?

I'm kinda sitting around waiting for something to happen, too. So if you want to lurk around the ship, or the hotel, passing the time with me you are more than welcome! Do dolphin-kin play cards? Drink? Talk about the old times?!

She does have a neural interface but communication is very limited. She will drink and wreak havoc and get around if you want. She may perform to entertain the public or get food. She will never turn down a race, sporting event or contest, Accademic or physical as participant or spectator. It's important to make sure she knows if a contest is meant to be nonlethal before it starts.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:24, Mon 19 Oct 2015.

Some thoughts on M'nKuhl culture. Just ideas to see if GM agrees

M'nKuhl tend to live in specific feeding grounds which are pockets of hyperspace with plentiful flora and fauna. In any given feeding ground the adults spend most of their time away. They explore far reaches of real and hyperspace looking for new potential feeding grounds and allies. This leaves all the food for the young and adolescents. Adults may return durring holidays and the mating run which is a very special, celebratory time when all adults return, they challenge each other to friendly (sometimes unfriendly) competition and tell stories and show signs of their prowess. Adults will seek to mate with equally ranked adults at one run every 2-4 years. Pups will be born one year later.

Females will return to feeding grounds for delivery. Each feeding ground supports several pods made up of matrilineal families. Males mate outside their pod, within the feeding ground. Males identify with Thier pod but also spend time with fathers whenever the father is visiting on holiday. Parents tend to spend more time with same sex offspring although they do check on and visit oposite sex children whenever they can. Mothers will remain with newly born pups a few months at most. Barring congenital malformation there is very little mortality for young M'nKuhl. All adults in a feeding ground will protect all pups and support their education. Mortality occurs in adolescence when young M'nKuhl venture out to explore beyond the safe feeding grounds or experiment with switching to real-space. Adults also suffer high mortality for risk taking behavior in order to increase status. This behavior grows overtime making elderly M'nKuhl some of the riskiest sentient creatures.

Holidays are different for different pods so that adults from two pods will usually not interact except for the mating run. This makes it very difficult for humans to predict when individual M'nKuhl will be coming and going.

Adults on holiday will strictly forbid other adults to be in the feeding ground unless there is dire need of for females to deliver. Any adult returning at the wrong time is likely to be killed for it.

Life events on the life events table can be reinterpreted in light of the culture, in general with no special life event assume a normal mating and birth every term served.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:55, Mon 19 Oct 2015.

Those ideas are fine, at least for the large region of space this group travels in...since hyperspace is vast and M'n'Kuhl are widely spread traditions and behavior may change as groups form around in different regions.

alright if no one objects I will begin the reception tomorrow morning... if you have any loose ends to tie up go right ahead.

Hey Tal,

I'm burning through all my psi abilities with the social stuff. If we have a fight later I will be vulnerable.

I used the dice roller to help my creativity in creating an outfit. I thought the result was funny.

08:32, Today: Alex rolled 3,4 using D6,d6. Teenager ethnic out of date showman.
08:31, Today: Alex rolled 2,6 using D6,d6. Teenager Ethnic plus 2
08:31, Today: Alex rolled 5,6 using D6,d6. Teenager plus 2
08:29, Today: Alex rolled 6 using 1d6.  Any two roll again
Formalwear 1: high fashion, 2: ethnic fashion, 3 showman, 4: out of date, 5: teenager, 6: any two .

Apologies for my silence, RL has been consuming all my time recently.  I expect to be back to an approximation of normal on Wednesday.

RL has failed to settle down to a dull roar.  Consequently I feel I must withdraw from the game, as I see no likelihood of it doing son in the near to medium term.  Apologies to all, and have fun.

I understand, I'll leave your character in place, and your seat at the table open....

Thanks Prometheus.

Had some major issues at work, gonna be several days before I can post.  Sorry for the absence.

Sorry for the lack of follow up, I'm gonna be out until the beginning of December.  My work fired a bunch of people and now I'm working a ton of overtime.  I will try to pop in when I can and get updates done.

I'm back in town now and my work schedule has been settled and such so I will try to get up to date and post something as soon as I can.

Geez, I could swear I'd posted earlier...

Whatever and however you choose to celebrate this time of year ... Happy Holidays, everyone!  Best wishes from my family to yours, this holiday time.  I hope that you are all doing well and I look forward to RPing with you in the new year and beyond.

Happy Yuliszakah to us all.

Poppy dances into the room n naughty elf garb, dragging Balkiir in his Santa outfit...Merry Christmas!!!!

I probably forgot to mention this earlier but my holiday wishes are echoed by Elsbeth and others, happy holidays to one and all and you gamers located in the severe weather areas of the US, TAKE CARE

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.

Looking forward to picking this up again in the new year :)

sorry everyone, I was away from a computer for the longest time.

a Bit more explanation required I think


A few months ago my mother passed away unexpectedly due to preventable, and predictable causes. Causes that I had  warned my sisters, and brothers about..and causes that had caused a great deal of alienation between my mother and myself in the last couple of years.

Shortly afterward a young lady who was good friends with my girlfriend, and who I was fond of as well.....was murdered by her boyfriend after a breakup...leaving her son an orphan when the bastard shot himself.

these events were aggravated by the financial issues I had been dealing with since nearly loosing my foot and the three months of daily infusions, and wound care that were required to deal with infections after the fact.


over the months as more "stuff" piled on my mood, and my ability to focus on my more enjoyable pastimes has degraded progressively until it his rock bottom when I had go through December..which is my mothers, birthday, and my first Christmas I was not able to at least say hi to mom and catch up on things with her.

I had assumed in the past couple of weeks that I was in a good enough state of mind to return to my more enjoyable pastimes, wit at least enough creativity available to allow me to do a decent jobs at GMing, and storytelling. Unfortunately every time I attempt to do so I stare at a blank screen suffering from complete paralysis of my imagination, creative centers.


as you can tell by my complete absence for quite some time....about the only things I  have been able to focus  on are completely devoid of human interaction, or even the internalized imagined  interactions between people.

Honestly I never realized how much of the same mental, and emotional, wiring was involved with writing out an interaction, rather than actually participating in it.

I am deeply sorry for the delay, and the unfair treatment of my players. But I am going to ask you indulgence  while I deal with the anger, grief, and depression that these events have  left me floundering in. I have a story to tell in the game, and ideas supplied by you players that I really want to see play out..but right now my brain is not cooperating...even writing out this letter has been a major effort and felt like pulling barbwire out through my....ears....

If you chose not to stick around I understand, but if you do..Thank you I will do my best to ensure you are not disappointed.

I'm here for the long haul. You take care of you first.

hey GM, I truly do understand especially the depression part given that that is one of the things I deal with on a daily basis.   Even my meds don't work sometimes on my mood.   Take care of yourself and if you wish to talk just rmail me or something.   I will be going back to school here pretty quickly, in will be online but I've enjoyed the interactions so far so I guess I'm here for the long haul.   SERIOUSLY IF YOU WANT TO TALK JUST LET ME KNOW AND WE'LL WORK SOMETHING OUT.

Take all the time you need to heal up mentally and physically, Prometheus.  RL always takes precedence.  Come back to us if and when you can.  But, don't worry about us; take care of you and yours first and foremost.  Godspeed.

I appreciate the challenges you are suffering and enduring. Even normal boring stuff can cause delays I really like the creativity and openness you built this world with and look forward to your return even if slow and sporadic and imperfect at first. It's okay.

I'm fairly sure we will all be here when you get back.
Our thoughts are all with you and we hope that things get better for you.

In reply to T'risa K'mahda (msg # 287):

Thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.   I have no plans to bail and hope thing get for in the future.

The loyalty of my players never ceases to amaze...and warm my icy three size too small heart.

I'll be trying to get back to you guys soon. it's just my usual methods of dealing with depression, anxiety, and pure anger haven't helped much...and I don't like to dope myself up to avoid dealing with stuff...so I have to work through it the old fashioned way....

friends, family, a little quiet time, and an occasional guttural curse, shouted at the top of my lungs somewhere private.

Okay feelig the creative juices flowing again...If everyone can check in so i know who is still around I would be really happy.

Been busy, with a couple of projects here in RL, but I have had some time to do a bit of plotting.

One Praetorian Colonial Marine present and accounted for, sir!

Bad Ass number one accounted for...

Still tinkering around. :)

Eeee! Eeeeee!

I'm here too :-)

I'm still around

Hey

Sir.  Yes, sir!  Glad to have you back, Prometheus.  I hope that RL is treating you better.

still here

Glad I'm not the only one patiently waiting and hoping this game would start back up

alright ready to restart. I have a small issue to deal with concerning the events I had planned for the evening. But nothing that can't be fixed with some careful GM wizardry.

I have been busy wth the new revision of the rules. We'll be staying with the ones we are currently using.

The new rules are pretty solid, but the first edition of mongoose rules is solid enough for our needs.

The only changes I'll be making are on my side and have to do with how ships are put together..so unless anyone wants to take a course in starshp design 101 I don't see the new revisions impacting the game for you guys.

You will notice is the artwork will be better than MSpaint scribbles I have done before.

During my sabbatical, I have been working on my modeling, and design abilities connected with my seriously delayed book for Mongoose.


So if you see this....You might want to go back and get a bigger ship...It's a Q'sa battleship...and if you remember from the previous storyline...they Q'sa don't like you guys so much.



Yeah its ugly as a mudbrick and looks like it's been through hell, and half of Georgia.But I am pretty happy that I got it to look this good :D :P

Alas...it appears as though my dance is merely acceptable.

08:15, Today: T'risa K'mahda rolled 8 using 2d6+3.  dance.

congrats on the model. I see you've been busy in the other thread you posted :-)
I think I can safely say we'll do our utmost to avoid battleships until our dreadnought comes back online.

Well, Hell. So got news from mongoose today, due to workload and projected scheduling they are not going to be able to do my book....guess how happy I was t hear that.


But, the good news as that using a new licencing agreement, I can now self-publish my material with some support from mongoose.

I am not a happy camper about losing out on a proper publishing contract...but hell, most of the work is already done, and I have art of my own now. So now all I have to do is get the book formatted and laid out properly and I am good to go.

anyone know anybody with experience doing book layouts and publishing software???? I have a 150 page book to put together.

I think your art is awesome and will gladly buy your book. Hopefully you can find some resource to self make it.

I've done a lot of proof reading in my time, and I worked with Adobe Framemaker a long time ago when I was a technical author, but that was a very long time ago. I honestly think I've forgotten everything I knew about it.

PMd in other game

as a matter of interest...who s in attendance at the reception?

I'm there. Looking pretty and not of much use otherwise. :)

Still there

In reply to Alex (msg # 309):

Still there as well amd pretty useless at this point.  I'll try to get an update in later today
This message was last edited by the player at 15:51, Thu 05 May 2016.

right now it's a peacock parade, feathers include...just looking pretty has it's advantages. Unfortunately, one of the individuals who chose to drop had a key part to play in the proceeding...so i am trying to get you guys back into the ship and off the planet as smoothly as possible.

By the way Elspeth was there, Balkiir..and poppy is Looking on waiting to meet the guy with the pretty feathers ...nd scars...lots of scars....( smacks Poppy i the hand and puts her back in her box...) Geesh some NPC just push their wy forward without warning

As duly noted, Elsbeth is there.  She was staring down some of the honor guard apparently for a bit (darned those high rolls..:D).  I'll try to post getting out of that situation as soon as I can...

Or Balkiir can come and save me.

sorry for not posting sooner but just couldn't think of a ending post for my character but I am still here.

So if Poppy is there than so am I but of course I don't rate an introduction.

Oh most certainly, Alex could introduce you if he wished. At this point, you are his personal assistant.

Even as Cyberoids who haven't been emancipated yet are considered Sentient and are treated as sentient, at most social events...The O'maeda are still a little behind the curve as are a few other Human factions..but at TAE, Valkkiir, and  official Imperial Functions they are considered guests, or personal staff...not hardware.

QUic question: does anyone have anything they would like to add to T'risas comments to the Quetzl If not I will respond in the morning or afternoon.

There has been a slight hiccup in my ISP they are really good at canceling accounts but not so hot at setting up new ones SSheeshhhh, or fixing billing errors...

sorry everyone, my car died last week and I've been out shopping for a new one.

and now I'm in possession of a new one....and the consultants left work, so I have some free time again.

yeah I know the transportation issues, due to a complete failure of the front end of my truck I am a pedestrian right now...

Also, I would like to pick up the pace a little before everyone drops off the map due to lengthy delays...does anyone have issues with that?

my attention hs been diverted a bit due to trying to land two jobs doing art for actual published games...but I am more than willing/able to pick up my pace if you guys  are.

I'm still lurking but can pick up the pace as needed.  Been kinda quiet since the Qutzl reception has lasted far longer then I thought it would.

I don't have anything to add if anything I say has already been thought of and the boss has her own plan.

Ready to move forward and try executing boss' plan.

The reception was part of a nice little scenario suggested by a player..who had a part to play in it..who then quit the game... and dumped it all in my lap..so I got derailed and sort of lost focus for a bit

There is some information the Admiral can give you, and then your off.

In reply to Prometheus (msg # 322):

Seems that's pretty much the number two reason for games on this site not lasting.   Number one being real life is a bitch tends get in the way.

For me tis number one. Everything goes well.....until it doesn't and I get sidetracked for a while. Then I finally get things back on track and can post again.

The reception adds to our situation I think. Diplomacy and deals are part of my...*cough* our plan to stabilise this sector.

Still here!  Summer has been undeniably hectic - but, am willing to try and get back into the swing of things here.

Elsbeth is a fish out of water with respect to the politics.  But that won't stop me from posting ... :D  It just won't be much more than naval contemplation ... ;)

lol

Naval contemplation...so we have a dreadnought and a couple of fighters and the Audacious Rose of course

as apposed to navel contemplation?

You have a dreadnought..yes...operational No...

that one is gonna take some time to get the bugs out of...literally and figuratively

by the way there is an Illustration of the Q'sa dreadnought up now :D.

Hmm I had a spinal mount charging....OH Yes and of course a Glamour shot of Prometheus and Kronos...Note to self: never annoy someone with a spinal mount available...

I know...tis busy being ripped apart by Tau and Tae peoples anyway, so they can reverse engineer it.

That's how the TAE got their first warships..ripping apart and rebuilding captured Najuhlim ships.
http://wbyrd.deviantart.com/ar...nderchilde-623440130

warships...and how the Valkiir are getting their hands on old Mohljaniir tech...
http://wbyrd.deviantart.com/ar...gmar-Class-625838309

cool

hey not sure if you want to continue or end the dolphin thread buth this is a ping

In reply to IooOoo'NackhAa (msg # 330):



thanks for the ping..I thought I  had replied to it...will repost asap.

By the way have new build for yer micro fighter to look at...

Cool look forward to seeing it.

Not many people look forward to fighting a plasma-spitting critter with armor as thick as heavy battle dress :D

If anyone who does not have a character with skills suited for combat or operating a starship wishes to. they can either take control of a pre generated NPC, or create one.

I will allow people to have several so that they can be involved when the story veers off into an area they ae not specialized in.

anyone who wishes to tremain planet-side and begin investigations can do so. the confusion of a planet-wide alert may offer opportunities to gain access to locations and individuals that might not be available during regular situations.

we have  a new player. She's coming over from one of my other games Say hello to Val'Danath. She has a really, unusual, smile by the way :D

Welcome, Val!  Looking forward to RPing with you!

Thanks :)

Got a small blurb up with racial information, still need to finalize prety much the entire character sheet but as a relatively new arrival in the hyperspace lanes it should at least mention a couple of things that would have been in the news.

Also, Aquans... They tried to colonize my planet and kind of... well, let's just say we've been learning to control the tech they left behind. They weren't using it anymore...

Hmmm... I think that her teeth look very nice, indeed.  It is a shame that Val never got to meet Aziza!

welcome to the game!

Awesome hey welcome!

So - I'm happy to be on the ship but also I could start the investigation. Being that my skills for space are limited to gunnery 1 and pilot small craft and Vacc suit zero g fighting and we don't have our small craft yet I think others can cover gunnery or it may be automated. But I don't know - if I'm the only gunner I will gladly be on ship.

In reply to Alex (msg # 341):

Kinda in the same boat though I'd be good in a boarding partyou.  Have gunnery 1 and pilot space ships 1

So.. Since we aren't able to do boarding parties does Audacious Rose require two gunners? Or are we better use investigating?

Yeah I'm more of sneaker and sniper.   Stealth 4 and slug rifle 5.  My investigate is only a 2.

lol, those skill levels are far higher than any I have.

In fact, I've no real applicable shipboard skills either.

My only claim to fame is the leader skill and Tactics(naval).

*whispers to Kendrick* in fact you might be a better investigator than me and I am the Marshal!

The rose can handle several gunners. Each system can be taen over by a single person or linked together so that one gune can fre every weapon on a single target.

Piot 1 means you have about the same skill as an Airforce pilot who has been in the service for a few years.

0 = raw recruit with training
1 = Serviceman with training and a few years service
2 = Senor serviceman with training and limited combat experience
3 = Ace pilot
4 = Baron Von Richthofen tips his hat when you come into the room

with a 4 in sniper you are on par with the best of the best.

Since this is a shipyard, they will always have more ships than pilots anyone who thinks they can handle a fighter could probably find one on the ramp. Paperwork is sure to follow the engagement of course.

Against Kraken the odds of boarding a living techno-organic warship full of crawlers and larvae are slim to none...but the odds of being boarded are very high. they launch swarms of larvae, and other bioweapons in close combat and those critters will attack turrets and antenna, as well as breach airlocks and cargo hatches if they can.

standard drill is to have people suited up and ready for EVA combat anytime Kraken or their brood creatures are suspected.

And as I mentioned if someone wants to stay ground side and poke around while the majority of the population is busy hiding under their beds or grabbing a rifle it might lead to chances that are not available normally.

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More ship combat oriented NPCs are available for use if a player desires...

Gunner
Pilot
Ship commander

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T'risa is actually very useful in a combat such as this...tactics and leadership are in short supply among commercial crews...which is why The Admiral tapped her to lead the Merchant reserve.

with your psionic voice, you can ignore jamming and electronic warfare when communicating with the other captains as well...and trust me there will be jamming...Teacher can cheat a bit and link you to the other captains in a temporary network.