this one came through okay ... amazing! color me confuzzled
Tim
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 7:30 AM, Eamon Watters <> wrote:
>I wasn't running a campaign, more trying to flesh out how the Covenant operated.
>
>I got the feeling, from the folio adventure with the Ref's Screen and the Challenge 76 piece, that their overwhelming effort was focused on securing the approaches to the Covenant. I thought the jump naval assets they had were not enough on their own to do this. I used the references to extensive use of outposts to craft weapon-controlling variants as a major part of interdicting fuel sources. So in a system with 3 gas giants there might be an outpost at each one - each outpost controlling missile packs in close orbit of the giant. Outposts would be small, probably based on modular cutter pods, and as stealthy as possible. Each system in the cluster containing Sufren and Haze would probably have a jump-capable ship on station, either to provide back-up, or to courier a warning if a large incursion was in progress.
>
>To support such ventures I thought many of the Covenant Scout/Couriers would have been modified to carry a cutter module (a big modification when you consider the internal layout), and ships like the Donosevs and the Broadswords not only assisting with their cutter capabilities, but also using grapples to carry more outpost material at reduced jump.
>
>Talking of outposts, how did you see the Covenant using them? Listening stations were mentioned as being extensive, and I figured they dumped data to ships running sweeps, with the data transferred back down the line to the Covenant. I'm not even sure if the stations were supposed to be manned, but in the NE I guess that could be seen as essential.
>
>Also mentioned were Scout Service outposts, to aid recontact with the wilds. I saw these as staging posts, and probably not located in target systems, but if you have any recollections on them, I'm all ears.
>
>I did do a little bit of expansion of the RC/Covenant storyline, but in a very hazy way. I reckoned that once they saw what the RC had done, albeit with help from the Hivers, they would start to pursue an aggressive shipbuilding strategy, and so some smash & grabbing. However, the latter would be tempered a little by the fact that the Covenant seems less dogmatic with regards to government types, having two charismatic dictatorships and one democracy. People the RC would have no problem hitting hard might get diplomatic approaches from the Covenant.
>
>I disliked the way the Covenant was toasted in the Avenger timeline, so I ignored that. However, I didn't really do any solid timelining. I did however do a draft of the Belladonna's mission to Sufren, hitting lots of the interesting systems in Thoezzent and Promise L, H, and D on the way.
>
>How did you see things going? The Covenant absorbed? The RC morphing into an alliance of states? Something else?
>
>Eamon
>--------------------------------------------
>On Tue, 18/3/14, <> wrote:
>
>Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Jump route maps (was Re: Since Dave N is feeling talkative)
>To:
>Date: Tuesday, 18 March, 2014, 13:10
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Eamon--
>
>
>
>I agree, that is another significant consideration, and one
>which my
>
>described maps would only capture if you did that in
>advance, or did it
>
>carefully, looking for those indicators. But you are
>correct, that is the
>
>way you SHOULD do them to be perfectly accurate. While most
>ships can
>
>easily do a gas giant, having to bust up ice asteroids or
>land in a water
>
>ocean is different.
>
>
>
>How did things work out for the Covenant in your campaign? I
>recently saw
>
>that Avenger did a New Era adventure on the RC heading out
>to meet them.
>
>
>
>> On a slightly related note, during my intensive phase
>of obsession with
>
>> the Covenant of Sufren, I made a map with systems
>having difficult
>
>> frontier refuelling partially shaded, as I felt that
>would affect the flow
>
>> of vampire ships and the Covenant's posture against
>them. For some reason
>
>> I've never really needed route maps, but I can be
>fooled by a system that
>
>> seems to provide a nice link on a route, but which is
>bone-dry(-ish).
>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Tim
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 7:30 AM, Eamon Watters <> wrote:
>I wasn't running a campaign, more trying to flesh out how the Covenant operated.
>
>I got the feeling, from the folio adventure with the Ref's Screen and the Challenge 76 piece, that their overwhelming effort was focused on securing the approaches to the Covenant. I thought the jump naval assets they had were not enough on their own to do this. I used the references to extensive use of outposts to craft weapon-controlling variants as a major part of interdicting fuel sources. So in a system with 3 gas giants there might be an outpost at each one - each outpost controlling missile packs in close orbit of the giant. Outposts would be small, probably based on modular cutter pods, and as stealthy as possible. Each system in the cluster containing Sufren and Haze would probably have a jump-capable ship on station, either to provide back-up, or to courier a warning if a large incursion was in progress.
>
>To support such ventures I thought many of the Covenant Scout/Couriers would have been modified to carry a cutter module (a big modification when you consider the internal layout), and ships like the Donosevs and the Broadswords not only assisting with their cutter capabilities, but also using grapples to carry more outpost material at reduced jump.
>
>Talking of outposts, how did you see the Covenant using them? Listening stations were mentioned as being extensive, and I figured they dumped data to ships running sweeps, with the data transferred back down the line to the Covenant. I'm not even sure if the stations were supposed to be manned, but in the NE I guess that could be seen as essential.
>
>Also mentioned were Scout Service outposts, to aid recontact with the wilds. I saw these as staging posts, and probably not located in target systems, but if you have any recollections on them, I'm all ears.
>
>I did do a little bit of expansion of the RC/Covenant storyline, but in a very hazy way. I reckoned that once they saw what the RC had done, albeit with help from the Hivers, they would start to pursue an aggressive shipbuilding strategy, and so some smash & grabbing. However, the latter would be tempered a little by the fact that the Covenant seems less dogmatic with regards to government types, having two charismatic dictatorships and one democracy. People the RC would have no problem hitting hard might get diplomatic approaches from the Covenant.
>
>I disliked the way the Covenant was toasted in the Avenger timeline, so I ignored that. However, I didn't really do any solid timelining. I did however do a draft of the Belladonna's mission to Sufren, hitting lots of the interesting systems in Thoezzent and Promise L, H, and D on the way.
>
>How did you see things going? The Covenant absorbed? The RC morphing into an alliance of states? Something else?
>
>Eamon
>--------------------------------------------
>On Tue, 18/3/14, <> wrote:
>
>Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Jump route maps (was Re: Since Dave N is feeling talkative)
>To:
>Date: Tuesday, 18 March, 2014, 13:10
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Eamon--
>
>
>
>I agree, that is another significant consideration, and one
>which my
>
>described maps would only capture if you did that in
>advance, or did it
>
>carefully, looking for those indicators. But you are
>correct, that is the
>
>way you SHOULD do them to be perfectly accurate. While most
>ships can
>
>easily do a gas giant, having to bust up ice asteroids or
>land in a water
>
>ocean is different.
>
>
>
>How did things work out for the Covenant in your campaign? I
>recently saw
>
>that Avenger did a New Era adventure on the RC heading out
>to meet them.
>
>
>
>> On a slightly related note, during my intensive phase
>of obsession with
>
>> the Covenant of Sufren, I made a map with systems
>having difficult
>
>> frontier refuelling partially shaded, as I felt that
>would affect the flow
>
>> of vampire ships and the Covenant's posture against
>them. For some reason
>
>> I've never really needed route maps, but I can be
>fooled by a system that
>
>> seems to provide a nice link on a route, but which is
>bone-dry(-ish).
>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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