A Idea?

[JMISBEST]

Hi guys.

I have been rethinking my idea for my new race. Here is a new idea for 1st contact, by The Pcs, but The Third Imperium

The characters, at least 1 of whom is A Noble with almost no chance of inheritance, pick up a distress call after jumping to the wrong system when A Incompetent but Loyal Engineer types 18 instead of 81 as the last 2 digits of The Jump Code

They go to investigate and find A Life Support Pod that is clearly at least TL 18 near the wreck of a ship that was clearly A, light for the race that build it, Carrier of at least 282,900 tons that had been converted into A Very Heavily Armed and Armoured Diplomatic Ship

They approach, detect a survivor onboard, hopefully rescue her, she turns out to be The Super-Races Kings illegitimate half-human grand-daughter, her own kind turn up to rescue her, I reckon 74 ships ranging from 6,000 ton TL 17 Fairly Heavy Escorts to A 600,000 ton TL 22 Super-Heavy Carrier.

Just as the characters are about to be destroyed, but not before The Kings Grand-Daughter is beamed to their Flagship, she explains to the fleets leader what really happened, the Pcs are not killed or even harmed and using A Prototype TL 27 Jump Gate that if basically A Stargate SG1 rip-off and does in seconds what would otherwise take 104 years at Jump 6 and are rewared with whatever I think suits the campaign for them to return to The Imperium, buy a portfolio worth Cr 30+ million each and keep adventuring out of boredom, not a need to, and when The Imperium makes 1st contact the characters will be responsible for peace with this race, not a war that even a alliance of every other race in the setting could delay by more then a year or so

How does that sound for a great 1st contact by The Pcs

 

[JMISBEST]

Sorry should say Jump Gate that is basically A Space Based and Ship-Scale version of The Stargate from The Movie and TV Show/saga of The Same name

I also apologise for putting tgat, not that, in the original write, can you fine people please adjust the original

 

[JMISBEST]

Ooops. Forgot to add Pod after Life Support. Please change it

 

[-Daniel-]

Ooops. Forgot to add Pod after Life Support. Please change it

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[allanimal]

They approach, detect a survivor onboard, hopefully rescue her, she turns out to be The Super-Races Kings illegitimate half-human grand-daughter,

How does that sound for a great 1st contact by The Pcs

With a half-human on board the alien ship, it seems like there was already a 1st contact with that alien race...

It's really hard for me to make any other comments - your campaign seems to be so much more high powered than what I am used to playing. Such big numbers of everything. I don't even know what a TL22 ship would even be. It's not buildable in the rules, as far as I know, so have no basis to compare.

But if we compare a TL 7 delta with what we do have in the rules, take TL14 combat armor with protection 19 being shot at by an assault rifle TL7. It does 3D damage, which means no chance of penetration unless there is an effect, or burst fire. Even then, the damage roll needs to be quite high. Basically the TL14 guy is gonna laugh at the guy with the assault rifle.

That's how a TL15 ship from the imperium will be vs a TL22 super alien ship. No chance.

The characters will have to do whatever they do without violence, that's for sure....
so, the players will have to gear up for a social game. If they don't want that, they will have to where they can lie, cheat and steal some of that sweet, sweet high tech. But would they even be able to figure out how to use it?
Stealthing in or hacking would be near impossible... TL22 sensors and software would laugh at TL15 stealth gear and hacking attempts. And that assumes that the PCs even have access to the best the Imperium has to offer...

 

[JMISBEST]

I like the idea of their Human Subjects being bought from Slavers, cos their Empire has lasted 10,804.3 years but they only abolished slavery within the last 115 to 125 years, by their own Slavers using TL 20+ Disguise Devices, hence no official 1st contact or even know contact and that her ancestors were slaves to the royal family for almost 11 centuries and have since been well-paid, well treat servants to The Royals, with some of their children even being paid to be friends and companions to Royals from a very young age

I also like the idea that their are a couple of thousand half-breeds of common blood, maybe 2 to 3 dozen each of lesser, moderate and higher then moderate but less then high noble blood and maybe half to two-thirds of a dozen of high-nobility descent, but that, so far, she is the only, known, half-breed of royal blood