James--
Yes, you definitely should, I think he would appreciate that. And make
sure he knows it is also in tribute to him, as well as to the actual
absent friends that you will all be remembering. I know there are several
that Frank will think of. Winston Hamilton, Bill and Andy Keith, Gary
Gygax....
Where is Celesticon?
Loren was working on them at GDW. My understanding was that shortly after
the Traveller license went back to Marc that was supposed to be a
non-starter, as Marc didn't want to pursue TNE concepts, but since then I
think it is a possibility again. However, Loren's health issues complicate
that, and there are other projects he is trying to work on as well.
Much of Loren's deckplans (he would show them to me at GDW, we were
next-door neighbors on the back hallway) were of all of the individual
modules. And of course, he would just barely get started on one module
when that would make him think of another one, and another, and another,
which would cause him/us to go back to FF&S to design them.
Dave
> We shall have to make sure we hold our roughly annual Toast to Absent
> Friends at Celesticon this year, then, since Frank is scheduled to be
> there.
>
> I know Loren was working on deckplans for the Clipper at one point. He
> made it sound like a matter of pride to complete. Not sure how far he's
> gotten, but my attempt stopped (well before hearing of his) when I did the
> tonnage breakdown for the Clipper and realized just how much of the bare
> Clipper is behind the Engineering firewall.