Abbai Mystery

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I have just gotten my 2nd edition rules and was browsing through it's pages and stumbled upon the mentioning of a quarantined colony of the Abbai.
I found it right there in the beginning in the species discriptions of the Abbai. They have their Homeworld, one thriving colony and then one, that is mysteriously off-limits.

Has there been any mention of this in the series (a can't recall, so it most probably was shown in Crusade, there I'm lacking...) or is there any information in a Mongoose RPG book? How much information about the Abbai is given for example in the sourcebook about the League?

Anyone, please?

Anyway, I will be buidling an Abbai as my first 2nd edition sample character. What class would you assign him? I'm thinking about trader...

 

[Greg Smith]

It is detailed in the Guide to the Galaxy, IIRC.

The eccosysytem was badly disrupted both by Abbai colonisation and then mass driver attacks by the Centauri, so the Abbai keep it off-limits.

 

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It is detailed in the Guide to the Galaxy, IIRC.

The eccosysytem was badly disrupted both by Abbai colonisation and then mass driver attacks by the Centauri, so the Abbai keep it off-limits.

Ah thanks. Too bad, that doesn't necessarily make for a good mystery storyline at all I had hoped for something similar like this incident mentioned in the Romulan Boxed set by Last Unicorn Games in the Romulan Neutral Zone (what was it name, again? Tomed, maybe?) where the Romulans have bombed something on a seemingly empty planet before the Federation ships arrived on the spot and found traces of nothing all over the place

 

[Vortex]

Lucky! I happend to be reading my Galactic Guide these days and I just read this entry yesterday.

Actually, there is some mystery in the quarantine of Tirolus. Yes it was pretty much devastated by the Centauri but something seems to have made the Abbai overreact.

They quarantined the world, ok. But they seem to somehow concider what happend there is their fault and nothing seems to indicate why. They also put a lot of security in that system and will attack those who try to go there. This is an extremely unusual behaviour for the very defensive Abbai.

Something there is not exactly what it seems...

 

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Something there is not exactly what it seems...

That's great Thanks, Vortex.

Was there shed any light when and why the Centauri devestated that world or was this left open for our imagination?

Just as an idea, if it was open for interpretation: Might something have gone terribly wrong down there, maybe an experiment of biological or genetical background, so that the Abbai felt the need to get rid of it and lack the (now this is going to sound strange) "proper wapons of mass destruction" as they are more or less a pacifist society or did the two factions have been at war in the past? I don't own the Galactic Guide, so I have to rely on you guys! :wink:

Lucky! I happend to be reading my Galactic Guide these days and I just read this entry yesterday.

That was good timing indeed. I'm thankful and impressed all at the same time

 

[B_Steele]

Maybe I will look further into this for a future scenario...

...you have officially piqued my interest in dear little Tirolus. :twisted:

-Bry

 

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Maybe I will look further into this for a future scenario...

...you have officially piqued my interest in dear little Tirolus. :twisted:

-Bry

I did well! :lol:

Will I get a mention in the "Special Thanks" line in the credits then, please, maybe?!

Maybe I'll write something myself and hand in for publishing in Sings & Portents Shall we compare notes?! :wink:

 

[Vortex]

Was there shed any light when and why the Centauri devestated that world or was this left open for our imagination?

Quite simple! The Centauri wanted the resources. The Abbai fought back and held their end. So the Caunturi used the direct approach and threw a few asteroids.

 

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Quite simple! The Centauri wanted the resources. The Abbai fought back and held their end. So the Caunturi used the direct approach and threw a few asteroids.

That's said in the Galactic Guide?

 

[Vortex]

Yeah but I simplified it a bit

 

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Yeah but I simplified it a bit

That's quite alright. Thanks, Vortex

 

[Gabriel_Luna]

Well, bear in mind another theme of the show: nothing is exactly as it appears. If you want to make a scenario out of this, there's no reason you can't put some more going on under the surface. The reasons in the history books might just be what the public story is.

The Centauri react strongest when they have their pride wounded, and this is a big reaction. My vote is that it's part of a convoluted House conflict, but that's as far as I've gotten at the moment. Still it is an interesting event and worth exploring.