Project Hyperion

locarno24

Cosmic Mongoose
Have just had a look at the new S&P - specifically the Hyperion Project brief.

I realise that B5-related stuff is not now a possibility, but I think the idea looks awesome.....One could always use Traveller's Imperial Navy, or Starship Troopers Federal Fleet (does the SST license still hold?), or something else entirely that the company happens to have or create a license for (Mongoose has made several frustratingly vague* hints about ACTA v3).


As noted, it would take some planning to get it right, but it could be superb if it was.


An emphasis on the ship operations rather than the trading bit makes an interesting idea, and simplifies things a lot**, and if you've only got one PC ship, then simply an A4/A3 glossy picture with range bands and fire arcs does fine, and as noted 'contact' counters (either ship images, or some future equivalent of NATO APP-6A icons) or miniatures can be moved about on it.

With the 'military' tag making mission generation a lot less difficult (since you have the reliable option of 'your orders are' and they can't just womble off in the opposite direction to what the GM wants***).




* Waves fist in a not-especially-threatening manner at Msprange and hopes it comes soon....

**Although it would make things interesting come breaching pod full of annoyed marines clamps on to the flank.....


*** Tends to happen - a lot - in traveller, since if the PCs have a big enough ship to take on missions like this, it's hard to stop them doing what they want short of having a bigger ship ride herd on them....
 
...oh.

Have just found the reference to it in the planet mongoose blog, dating back to early 2007.

Didn't realise it'd been abandoned that long.
 
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