Deneb Sector

BFalcon said:
GypsyComet said:
Liam Devlin said:
I would also like to thank the members here on these Mongoose Boards for allowing me to finish without major interruptions and questions.
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We recognize manic momentum when we see it.
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Yeah, and probably a little worried that the insanity is catching... :)

Liam: any chance of the whole thing available as a PDF sometime? For some reason the forum version does my eyes in... (strangely).
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Mssr BFalcon,

Sorry for the eye-strain, the format here is okay, and I did all of the pre-posting on my laptop, complete with all the li'l symbols for italis, underlines, and bold texting. I did this for the purpose of highlighting the important stuff as I saw it.

Yeah, it gets busy to read & look at. :oops:

PDF? :shock: I'd have to learn how to do one. I could edit and make this a more rtf document though, and email it off. I don't keep a website anymore. I'm a privately subcontracted writer for Traveller, nothing more, not a high-speed layout guy.
 
Rikki-Tikki-Traveller wrote:
I think your Technology block makes a lot of sense and can be used in just about any campaign. There are bound to be a lot of worlds that feel their technology is "good enough" once they hit TL11-13. Gravitics are developed enough to be in common use and J2-4 lets you get just about anywhere you want to go. Meson weapons probably scare the CRAP out of most people and might be enough for a large group to go "we shouldn't go any farther in that direction." Oppose them with the New-Shiney-Widget crowd and you have a good political split in any society.
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There is a LOT to be said of what a planetary government thinks is "this far & no further" along the TL scale. There, one could make a larger analysis of the Law Levels in the TMB vis-a-vis the planet's TL in the UWP. The devil, I was taught, is always in the details!

I prefer when world-building to take in the astrography of a region in to task. If there are a lot of scattered clusters J-2 apart, TL-B becomes a common denominator as a baseline, sparser regions may have to achieve TL-C for Jump-3 capability (at least for the colonization effort where they began)

Really sparse regions tend to find TL-D, Jump-4 their zenith, but as always, there are exceptions to the rules: It is upon the burden of plausibility to the writer to make it so, and make it work for the reader's imagination. Failure to do so makes the player's comprehension & GM's ability to relate it that much more difficult.

I am not a fan of handwaviums when good writing can bridge those chasms in the conceptual phase of good idea for a campaign.

As to the Blocs, yes, there is the sense in Deneb Sector that certain worlds championed their drive to certain Tech levels and said, here's our niche, and we own it--simply in population of workers and so on. In a sense, this tends to erect monolithic monopolistic worlds for tech level specific items, and assure their place in the galactic market as Merchant Prince calls it.

But this becomes simplistic and repetitious, so I look towards other reasons for this technology stagnation/ stratification wherever I can, so its not "ho-hum, another mega-pop hive world with High law and opperessive government"...
 
Liam Devlin said:
Yeah, it gets busy to read & look at. :oops:

PDF? :shock: I'd have to learn how to do one. I could edit and make this a more rtf document though, and email it off. I don't keep a website anymore. I'm a privately subcontracted writer for Traveller, nothing more, not a high-speed layout guy.
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Easy answer if you're using Linux or a PC - Open Office - it can export from a word document or a spreadsheet as a PDF file and it's free.

And don't worry - it might be a combination of the text size, my monitor and my weird eyesight... if you're using a laptop, your screen will almost certainly be smaller and that may be where the difference is (I'm using a 22" monitor, so things probably look bigger).
 
I always wondered what Alien technology actually meant, is that non-human tech, so stuff from Aslan and Vargr count, or is it for more extreme non-humans like Hivers? Or is it for stuff thats potentially dangerous and unknown, like Ancient Relics? :?

An answer to this would be great.
 
Personally, I've always held Alien Technology to be contemporary alien tech, like the Vargr or Aslan... and Alien Artefacts to be ancient technology from dead or regressed cultures.
 
It could be any or all of the above.

If the world is near the Vargr border, maybe it DOES prohibit Vargr tech, as a way to keep it's own markets vibrant.

Some worlds might even go as far as to ban SOLOMANI tech (or Vilani tech). The definition of alien is in the eye of the beholder.

Organically, you could use the Cultural Differences Table in the TMB (page 177). That might give you some ideas of what is considered Alien on certain worlds.

You can also look at the worlds around it; if there is a nearby alien race, maybe it is just goods from that world that are banned.

You know, after the Jonkereen Rebellions, maybe all Jonkereen tech is banned, another way to keep them down.

Unfortunately, I can't give you a definitive answer, but I hope this helps.
 
In the MgT scale effect of cumulative Law level penalties, Mssr Zero, I would side on the Ancient's/ or Unknown technology, as the Imperium does trade with both Aslan, & Vargr along the frontiers of Deneb/ Spinward Marches/ Trojan Reaches/ Reft Sectors. Below that is LL-3, banning TL15 technologies.

The average Vargr Stellar Tech is placed at TL13, whereas average Stellar Tech for Aslan is TL14; Droyne Tech varies from a baseline of TL7-TL15 on their worlds. Zhodani tech zeniths at TL14, and the Darrians at TL16 (though much of that is NOT for sale!)
 
Liam Devlin said:
PDF? :shock: I'd have to learn how to do one. I could edit and make this a more rtf document though, and email it off. I don't keep a website anymore. I'm a privately subcontracted writer for Traveller, nothing more, not a high-speed layout guy.
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Actually, if you consider it complete, I can peel it off the forum and format it up myself, and turn it into Freelance Traveller Special Supplement 2: Deneb Sector Sourcebook, for publication with the October 2011 issue of the magazine. Before that happens, though, I'd need an email from you (to editor@freelancetraveller.com) that contains:

1. The name under which to credit it - and if you want to credit it under a handle, please send me your real name so that I have it to match to the handle if needed;

2. An explicit statement of permission to go ahead and build the Special Supplement;

3. [optional, but very desirable] A short article discussing why you undertook the project originally. If this was in prefatory material in the thread, I can pull it from there instead. This would be used as a mini-article in the body of the main issue to "introduce" the Special Supplement.
 
FreeTrav said:
Actually, if you consider it complete, I can peel it off the forum and format it up myself, and turn it into Freelance Traveller Special Supplement 2: Deneb Sector Sourcebook, for publication with the October 2011 issue of the magazine.
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That would be very cool, and would save me a lot of cut+paste+format work. :)
 
zero said:
I always wondered what Alien technology actually meant, is that non-human tech, so stuff from Aslan and Vargr count, or is it for more extreme non-humans like Hivers? Or is it for stuff thats potentially dangerous and unknown, like Ancient Relics? :?

An answer to this would be great.
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Fundamentally, it means equipment is designed with a different body and brain than humans.
 
FreeTrav said:
Liam Devlin said:
PDF? :shock: I'd have to learn how to do one. I could edit and make this a more rtf document though, and email it off. I don't keep a website anymore. I'm a privately subcontracted writer for Traveller, nothing more, not a high-speed layout guy.
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Actually, if you consider it complete, I can peel it off the forum and format it up myself, and turn it into Freelance Traveller Special Supplement 2: Deneb Sector Sourcebook, for publication with the October 2011 issue of the magazine. Before that happens, though, I'd need an email from you (to editor@freelancetraveller.com) that contains:

1. The name under which to credit it - and if you want to credit it under a handle, please send me your real name so that I have it to match to the handle if needed;

2. An explicit statement of permission to go ahead and build the Special Supplement;

3. [optional, but very desirable] A short article discussing why you undertook the project originally. If this was in prefatory material in the thread, I can pull it from there instead. This would be used as a mini-article in the body of the main issue to "introduce" the Special Supplement.
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Mssr Zeitlin,

I would be honored that something I wrote for the game we all here on these boards love, play, and tinker at would end up in your publication. As I wrote this here in on a public forum, I do not expect, (nor did I expect) any remuneration. I am nearly done, for I wish to make a comparison of a subsector to the above last two pieces of an early statement I made within. Then it will be finished.

Your terms are quite honorable, & explicit. I will endeavor to complete this in time for your October 2011 issue. I will e-mail you my preferences for authorship, and can duly meet your third criteria of an explanatory forwarding piece as well.

Thank you sir.
 
This concludes my research & Thesis into a spotlight in time of 1105-era Deneb Sector using the Mongoose Traveller Books & Supplements:

:arrow: Core Rule Book
:arrow: Library Data
:arrow: Starports
:arrow: Dilettante
:arrow: Aliens: Aslan
:arrow: Aliens: Darrians
:arrow: Aliens: Vargr
:arrow: Aliens: Zhodani
:arrow: Reft Sector
:arrow: Sector Fleets.

and especially GDW's Regency Sourcebook (RSB), without which the ownership of some of the Govt6 worlds from Sunbane's CT-era UWP's could not have been ascertained for purposes of Nobles' & "estates" research.

PS: Mssr Zeitlin, I will have your letter of permission shortly, and the forward piece as to *why* I undertook to do this work.

Gentlemen of the Traveller Boards,

enjoy.
 
Data has been edited, collated, formatted into rtf. for Mr. Zeitlin's pdf. Free Lance traveller fanzine & been sent off as of fifteen minutes ago. See ya'll in the October! issue!

sincerely,

Daniel W. Hammersley
US Army Infantry (Retired)
 
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