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.
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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