Recent content by Hoplite

You could also use it to mess with the players - For example - they have retrieved the item and are in hiding from a searching, heavily armoured security squad. Just as the squad is passing close by the device decides to emit a piercingly high whistle and begin flashing through a sequence of...

Yeah, I think you'd need to be in sensor range and get enough information from them to determine vector etc to have a chance. If all your saw was the flash of the ship with your naked eye as it jumped then you wouldn't stand a chance. I think that if you had good enough data, you might be...

Is it possible to trace a jumped ship if you 'see' it jump. Can you tell from its entry vector, power surge at the time of Jump etc, where its destination is going to be, or once a ship has jumped is it untraceable? As far as I can remember there's nothing about this mentioned in the book (I...

So it seems the District is the 'popular choice'. I had originally thought of Jewel due to the presence of the Arden Confederacy and the Zhodani, and all the possibilities that opened up. But having a think about it, i think the District will provide the same possibilities but with a little...

A simple question - what SM dubsector would you lot advise starting a campaign in that would allow the widest scope for different types of adventures? I'm about to start a campaign, but I'm not sure what kind of adventures I need to setup for - and if things go as usual, my players won't know...