Always liked the idea of a campaign on a returning Rim
expedition. They wouldn't have bothered to put Imperial
transponders on those ships, though likely had Solomani IFF. I
had also considered a Fleet or two might have a muted, if not
deviant Party evolution due to the time away. I was leaning on a
fleet influenced by the timeless ideals of the Turin
Consolidation coming back in the New Era.Their forebears had been
caught up either in jump space phenomena and/or local affairs and
left the legacy of return to their descendants. Wary of what they
knew of the Confederation, they disabled and removed Solomani IFF
and would come with some alt tech, as well, including their own
AI...
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from my T989
Eamon Watters wrote:
I think Rats & Cats gives the Iouo as overdue for return from the
next spiral arm. Could be a nice thing to drop into the mix in
Banners, or perhaps some state in the area decides to send out
ships to try and find the vessel.
Of course, if the ship gets hit by a hobbyist virus, perhaps it
goes on an 'ongoing mission of exploration'.
Eamon
>From: Antony Farrell <
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>Another thought occurred to me. When were the Solomani Rimward
exploration vessels supposed to return? I picture
>them arriving years after the virus devastation. These ships
would have been loaded with the then state of the art
>Solomani technology but still vulnerable to infection. The ship
or ships become infected but the Sols are able to fight it off
>– they were also huge research vessels with again much
redundancy and possibly some alien tech which helps fend off
>the virus. (Did they run into something similar in the far
reaches, Cylons;))