Gary--
> By others, I mean other "cosmic fires." Events to incite player
reflections if not in-game reality checks.
My first thoughts include, "Hmm, not sure if I remember any," and "I tried
to keep that compass front-and-center as much as possible."
Follow-on thoughts include, "Well, there would have been the Black
Curtain, where "in order to save the village, we had to destroy it," and
the little Greek Chorus of later historical accounts of how the SVs were
remembered.
I'll try to think of more.
> I'm speaking more in generalities wrt "left hooks" and thinking psi and
the Empress Wave, AI with Virus, etc. IOW, reaffirming core concepts of
Traveller, but with a fresh perspective.
Whether a lot of people see it or not, I was very committed to the notion
that everything officially published for Traveller was true, and trying to
return to some of those and give them more attention, such as psi with EW,
Cymbeline chips, etc. And as I've remarked before, although some saw me as
the anti-Marc, in my mind I was being very Marc-ian in taking stuff that
was established, and then showing different aspects or truths behind it.
Marc might not have always gone the way I did, but the principle that
there is more behind these established "facts" than meets the eye was very
Marc-ian.
Dave