Always loved the Clipper design. Reminds me of the ship from Star Control
2. I would love to see these module designs and deckplans.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:45 PM, <> wrote:
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> James--
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> 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....
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> Where is Celesticon?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Dave
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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