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| + | ==Introduction== | ||
| + | Beyond Reach will be a SF/space opera style game set in the Trojan Reaches sector of the Traveller series Imperium. It will be run using the Mongoose Traveller [hereafter referred to as MGT] system. | ||
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| + | '''Setting''' is the Trojan Reaches as outlined in MGT's Aslan module, circa 1108. | ||
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| + | Jump drives will be faster [based on the warp drives in the starship construction section of the core book - no house rules, I promise!]. Expect a wild frontier filled with Aslan clans, scheming megacorps, independent worlds, mad emperors, raiders, pirate systems and a corrupt Imperium trying to keep a lid on it all. Overhanging this is the sure knowledge of a war to come... | ||
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| + | '''Tone.''' I want space opera! Some could argue that Traveller is space opera already, But I'm talking Babylon5 meets Firefly as a baseline. Aslan will be kzinti-klingon-samurai pastiches, Vargr will mimic intelligent hounds, etc. The Imperium will be at once a noble ideal and a corrupt reality. Also, Big Things will be on the boil, waiting for PC's to knock the pot... | ||
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| + | ==Characters== | ||
| + | * [[Henryk Jensen]], Intelligence agent and Scholar. | ||
| + | * [[Wu]], Aslan Imperial Marine and Hradur Envoy/Spy. | ||
| + | * [[Axander Li]] Scholar, Merchant broker and smuggler. | ||
| + | * [[Jan Chersky]] Noted Scout commander. | ||
| + | * [[Marava Anders]] | ||
Revision as of 06:22, 10 July 2010
Beyond Reach: A Mongoose Traveller adventure of pirates, politics and derring do, in the vein of Space Opera.
Introduction
Beyond Reach will be a SF/space opera style game set in the Trojan Reaches sector of the Traveller series Imperium. It will be run using the Mongoose Traveller [hereafter referred to as MGT] system.
Setting is the Trojan Reaches as outlined in MGT's Aslan module, circa 1108.
Jump drives will be faster [based on the warp drives in the starship construction section of the core book - no house rules, I promise!]. Expect a wild frontier filled with Aslan clans, scheming megacorps, independent worlds, mad emperors, raiders, pirate systems and a corrupt Imperium trying to keep a lid on it all. Overhanging this is the sure knowledge of a war to come...
Tone. I want space opera! Some could argue that Traveller is space opera already, But I'm talking Babylon5 meets Firefly as a baseline. Aslan will be kzinti-klingon-samurai pastiches, Vargr will mimic intelligent hounds, etc. The Imperium will be at once a noble ideal and a corrupt reality. Also, Big Things will be on the boil, waiting for PC's to knock the pot...
Characters
- Henryk Jensen, Intelligence agent and Scholar.
- Wu, Aslan Imperial Marine and Hradur Envoy/Spy.
- Axander Li Scholar, Merchant broker and smuggler.
- Jan Chersky Noted Scout commander.
- Marava Anders
