My experience with people serving in isolated conditions (cultural isolation typically) is that you see a dramatic increase in personal idiosyncrasies and some extreme behavior.  Some people rise to the occasion and some fall apart.

Given how unforgiving working in a vacuum would be, I would think they would either be fairly dysfunctional and dialing it in (familiarity breeds contempt), or something akin to LRRP/Ranger/SEAL team - high functioning, cocky, unwelcoming of outsiders, and tightly integrated.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:03, Wed 06 Aug 2014.

Looking this over, we may need two or three forged manifests, but either way, being one jump away from the system we want to go to is defiantly in our favor, as is dropping these guys off at Perseus with its six independent states.

The first challenge is jumping to the target system and perhaps getting inspected.  We use forgery #1 (inbound crew) and claim a misjump if asked.  The key if this happens is to lose the cops/navy and make it to the site undetected - lost on the way to refueling or something along those lines.

On the way out, we use forgery #2 (outbound crew) if checked.  Same excuses if needed.

Jumping into Perseus, it's possible that a Jump-3 courier could have made it from Tupolev in time to provide a copy of our manifests and flight plans.  That presumes there's any level of cooperation between the Halowon empire and all of the six polities on Perseus.  We just need one who doesn’t have an law enforcement information sharing agreement with Halowon – that would be our port of call for these belters.  Otherwise we need a third forgery.

A bit of research on this before we leave Halowon space could be in order.  Who wants to pour through all titles in the H.E.C. (Hallowon Empire Code) and review all of their treaty obligations, commitments, and agreements?  :P
This message was last edited by the player at 16:28, Mon 11 Aug 2014.

Cover story sounds reasonable to Dany (and her player).


*looks innocently at the guy with JoAT/3*  Dany has Investigate/1, but no Admin or Advocate skill to speak of.  So, she can likely aid another in researching, but I suspect would not be the best to take the lead on such matters...

Still, just let me know if you want to her try and roll something.

Jacques is in the same boat as Dani, Investigate but no Admin or Advocate. Willing to do the work, tho. He does have Deception and Persuade so that may help if we do get questioned.

@Ref: before we pick up the miners, Jacques will hit the Tupolev shops, try to find a nice Cr100 bottle of wine, something a bit hard to get hold of out here but not too extravagant. That might help too ;)

Uh... nothing to see here!
This message was last edited by the player at 00:16, Thu 14 Aug 2014.

Qorom seems like a good bet to me for a destination, what do you guys think?

Qorom sounds fine to me.  Danica has been to Perseus before - though that was during a pacification campaign almost 20 years ago.  We may even see Newell there...:)

+1 for Qorom

It'll do for me.

In reply to Thera Santorini (msg # 698):

Busy week with travel recently.  Expect to have something up tomorrow night.

T minus 4 days to the release of Interstellar.  I'm pretty stoked for a movie where Matthew McConaughey pilots a Lincoln through a wormhole in order to find a new world.  Hope you are all doing well!


This message was last updated by the player at 01:01, Tue 04 Nov 2014.

Agreed, can't wait! Cheers, all!

I saw it today at the IMAX at Udvar-Hazy.  I really enjoyed it and thought the visuals were just incredible.  My take was that the tech is just a bit short of 2300 AD.  A must see for Sci-Fi aficionados.

No matter what you celebrate, have a good one!  Best wishes from my family to yours!

And perhaps we might even get a chance to see the Gypsy Moth fly again next year!  *fingers crossed*

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!  Not sure how many of you follow MM on Facebook, so I'll repost this bit of holiday Traveller eye-candy.

Happy Holidays everyone! Best wishes for health, wealth and happiness in the new year.

Cheers!!

All the best for the new year, folks.

At this time of thinking of absent friends, has anyone heard from Doc's player? He dropped out of a game with worrying suddenness in July and I've not seen nor heard anything since...

No word from Doc on my end.

Hope everyone (including Doc) is doing well (RL and online).  Have a happy, fun and safe New Years.  And I hope to RP with all of you in the coming year (and beyond)!

Thinking of all of you and hoping everyone is safe.  I can't tell if Covid more or less dangerous than Trills, but for now, just avoid both.  Take care Travellers!
This message was last updated by the player at 17:00, Fri 10 Apr 2020.

Sheltering in place here!  Spousal unit is an ICU nurse - so, always a touch stressed about the job, but thankfully (*fingers crossed*) supplies are currently adequate (we are not in NYC).  Our 12-year old (7th grade now... zoinks!) is distance learning - although this week was Spring Break (which just means no classes... go figure).

A month into the sheltering and we are finally starting to run low on paper products.  The run on TP all around the country (here as well, is just crazy)... though I guess it is more a reallocation of consumer versus commercial paper products (the latter of which are usually slightly lower in comfort/quality) is the bottleneck.  Apparently, single ply napkins and TP are abundant (if you can find a distributor)...

Travel on!  Er... Shelter in Place for now - then travel on!  Stay safe everyone (and wash your hands and continue to socially distance for now, it really is working.  Oh, and cover your face in public, at least where you cannot maintain at least six feet of distance - like inside any stores)!

Oh, and my vote is that Covid-19 is more dangerous than Trills (especially to old guys like Hayden ...:D).  Just saying.

ICU nursing these days is the front line of this craziness.  Please thank your spouse for me.  I was an EMT-Paramedic for two years after I left the Army and the whole HIPAA thing drove me to a career in IT (wait, what?  A patient spits on me and now I have to get tested for hepatitis for the next six months because you can't tell me about their blood-borne pathogens?  Screw that).  I'm happy to report that no keyboard or monitor has ever bled on me.  Though in Warsaw we did have a Marine Security Guard discharge his Beretta into an HP Monitor and CPU at point blank range (he was bored at Post One and practicing 'fast drawing' late one night - can you say tinnitus?  Can you spell NJP?  I knew you could!).  Still, no blood in that PC either - which was not the case with all the people I picked up in Fayettenam who got shot. :(  Anyway, I have a lot respect for people who still deal with.. ahem... humans... I was really hoping to be working with more robots by 2020 myself.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:15, Mon 13 Apr 2020.

Cheers, Team! Glad to hear others are taking this seriously but also keeping spirits up and getting on as best as can be. I need to check this board more often ;)

Here in New Orleans today is the first day of Phase 1, which for us means certain businesses reopen at 25% capacity, masks and social distancing required, contact tracing implemented and a looming threat by the mayor to shut everything down if people don’t behave. I expect the next few days to be rough as people push the limits but generally everyone has taken this very seriously and we never hit our max hospital capacity (if you count the converted convention center’s 1000+ beds and so forth as “capacity”).

Danica please do thank the spousal unit. One of my closest friends of some 30 odd years is a VA nurse in Chicago and well, please just say thanks. And don’t forget to do something nice for yourself every once in a while!

Man, I can’t wait to get back to work but my industry is currently considered Phase 4 (late July/early August). As a cinematographer I am blessed to have the coolest job in the world but of course my last project was a film that had a lot of making out and action fight scenes. Can’t really social distance our way through that so we’ll see. Le sigh...

It’s nice to see some life in these threads. Hopefully others will take a spin thru and chime in as well.

Stay strong everyone. And heed Danica’s advice!

Just submitted my retirement papers.  Will muster out with:

Admin-2
Advocate-0
Carouse-0
Deception-1
Diplomat-1
Drive (Wheeled)-1
Electronics (Computer)-3
Electronics (Comms)-2
Gun Combat-0
Investigate-0
Jack of All Trades-1
Language-0
Leadership-1
Mechanic-1
Medic-1
Recon-0
Steward-1
Streetwise-1
Survival-0

Now the adventures can begin!

Woot!  Congrats, Hayden!  That is awesome news.  Still a fair few years here before I can muster (assuming I am not forcefully severed).

So, Arlington will be the home base from now on?  I presume that there is still a lot of travelling to be done (where to first.. er ... next?); so ...

Stay safe (everyone), unfortunately, a fall surge is still on the horizon!  Be careful out there amongst them English!

We'll stay in Arlington for another year or two.  Wife would like to get another overseas gig, so we'll see if that works out.  I'll run the household and let her work since that's what she wants... :)

After that, who knows.  We've got some family in Oklahoma, so we might retire to the midwest somewhere, where we can reach them in a day.  We don't want to be too close though... ha!