Hello everyone,
Ok my last Traveller style campaign was a Alternate setting inwhich I set up a Battlestar Galatica Universe using the Traveller mechanics T20 with my own house rules.
In my setting the players were apart of the 98th Battle Group, one that had been assigned to a Long Range exploration duty, and had been returning from their one long year of exploration duty. The 98th had not gotten any of Baltar's new software upgrades so when they encountered Cylons, they had the advantage over them.
The 98th BG was commanded and lead by the Battlestar Oracle (pro-type Battlestar that had been designed at the same time that the Mercury class had been, but was determined to huge, to costly to build, thus it was the only one built). Now also in the 98th was (1) Heavy Cruiser, (1) Cruiser, (2) Destroyers, (10) Escorts, (1) Armed Troop Transport, (5) Armed Cargo Transports, (1) Science Explorer, (1) Agro Ship, (1) Refueler/Miner, (1) Repair/Wrecker.
They returned to Colonial space just after the attack on all the colonies, and engaged some Cylons. They heard the call of the BS Galatica, and arrived just the Battlestar Galactica plus RTF kicked in their FTL(Jump drives). They engaged the attacking Cylon Raiders and saved most of the non-FTL ships there. Then the Commander waited a while longer for any other ships to arive and after a few more including a few other Support Colonial Fleet (Combat Vessels) to arrive, they started moving to a different location. The Commander of the 98th sent out some of his Support vessels to some of the battle space areas and they began to rescue stranded crews on some of these battle regions. It was discovered if you whipped the computers and reloaded the old software that systems worked just fine. Thus 98th started to salvage the crippled floating virus infected support vessels that were mostly undamaged. Within time they had amased a group of these other Support Colonial Fleet vessels and a mass of FTL civilian vessels and went to a Moth-Ball ship storage site on a moon in a outer system. many of the ships moth-balled here were placed here after the last Cylon war, and kept service ready. The Cylons had not bothered with this site as it only had Escorts, Armed Troop Transports, Armed Cargo Transports, Shuttles Mk Is and Viper Mk IIs stored on station. It also had weapons, ammo and supplies stockpiled their as well but was felt no one would go there, and they would take it out after all the rest of the sites and targets were eliminated. Thus the 98th arrived, and plundered it for everything they could carry away. They also absorbed the survivors their into their ranks, and brought online many of those vessels and transferred many civilians onto those ships. After they had absorbed all that they could the 98th set off back the way they had explored, to search for a new place to settle and call home.
Ok so the players (5) were all trained Viper pilots, but assigned to a Exploration team on the Science Explorer. They flew a 400 ton Scout with two gunnery turrets, and forward firing weapons as well. The campaign lasted for 2.5 yrs until I shut it down to redesign the campaign in a different more tradionial Traveller type setting.
So what have others done?
Penn
Ok my last Traveller style campaign was a Alternate setting inwhich I set up a Battlestar Galatica Universe using the Traveller mechanics T20 with my own house rules.
In my setting the players were apart of the 98th Battle Group, one that had been assigned to a Long Range exploration duty, and had been returning from their one long year of exploration duty. The 98th had not gotten any of Baltar's new software upgrades so when they encountered Cylons, they had the advantage over them.
The 98th BG was commanded and lead by the Battlestar Oracle (pro-type Battlestar that had been designed at the same time that the Mercury class had been, but was determined to huge, to costly to build, thus it was the only one built). Now also in the 98th was (1) Heavy Cruiser, (1) Cruiser, (2) Destroyers, (10) Escorts, (1) Armed Troop Transport, (5) Armed Cargo Transports, (1) Science Explorer, (1) Agro Ship, (1) Refueler/Miner, (1) Repair/Wrecker.
They returned to Colonial space just after the attack on all the colonies, and engaged some Cylons. They heard the call of the BS Galatica, and arrived just the Battlestar Galactica plus RTF kicked in their FTL(Jump drives). They engaged the attacking Cylon Raiders and saved most of the non-FTL ships there. Then the Commander waited a while longer for any other ships to arive and after a few more including a few other Support Colonial Fleet (Combat Vessels) to arrive, they started moving to a different location. The Commander of the 98th sent out some of his Support vessels to some of the battle space areas and they began to rescue stranded crews on some of these battle regions. It was discovered if you whipped the computers and reloaded the old software that systems worked just fine. Thus 98th started to salvage the crippled floating virus infected support vessels that were mostly undamaged. Within time they had amased a group of these other Support Colonial Fleet vessels and a mass of FTL civilian vessels and went to a Moth-Ball ship storage site on a moon in a outer system. many of the ships moth-balled here were placed here after the last Cylon war, and kept service ready. The Cylons had not bothered with this site as it only had Escorts, Armed Troop Transports, Armed Cargo Transports, Shuttles Mk Is and Viper Mk IIs stored on station. It also had weapons, ammo and supplies stockpiled their as well but was felt no one would go there, and they would take it out after all the rest of the sites and targets were eliminated. Thus the 98th arrived, and plundered it for everything they could carry away. They also absorbed the survivors their into their ranks, and brought online many of those vessels and transferred many civilians onto those ships. After they had absorbed all that they could the 98th set off back the way they had explored, to search for a new place to settle and call home.
Ok so the players (5) were all trained Viper pilots, but assigned to a Exploration team on the Science Explorer. They flew a 400 ton Scout with two gunnery turrets, and forward firing weapons as well. The campaign lasted for 2.5 yrs until I shut it down to redesign the campaign in a different more tradionial Traveller type setting.
So what have others done?
Penn
