Geir
Emperor Mongoose
I'm pretty sure I voted at least once for The Beyond to be tackled in a future Mongoose project, but it wasn't a big deal before Deepnight Revelation. Probably still isn't a "Big Deal", but it is an annoyance.
The "official" "Under Review" version on travellermaps.com is kind of awful. I object less to giant furry spiders than to flying humans, but for the purpose of transit, the star systems themselves are an issue, not just the symmetrical star patterns, but the gas giant population.
I've taken it upon myself to play with the admittedly early and raw version of Deepnight Revelation from the Kickstarter as an admittedly overly ambitious solo project with the goal of providing useful feedback (I've pretty much had to redesign every ship, some because they were wrong, others because I wanted to go in a slightly different way, but that's something I'll post on Kickstarter after the release of the next version).
But anyway, I got the expedition to Tobia in more detail than necessary as a "shakedown cruise" and a way to learn all the rules. Now comes a nearly two-year transit to the edge of Charted Space. I could drive along the Rift through Aslan space, using the Great Rift sectors, but it makes more sense to cut through Florian space and into The Beyond.
There's barely any gas giants! The system layout is goofy! The system names are silly and even the Aslan worlds have inappropriate names!
Fortunately, travellermaps also has an Apocryphal and an Unofficial version of The Beyond (you can search for them to find out where they're stashed), both appearing to use the same, much more "normal" star layout and gas giant frequency. I think I'm going to go with that layout. Not sure what I want to do about the political layout, so there might be a lot of fast transits using gas giant refueling and not a lot of social calls.
But seriously, somebody, whether the T5SS or a future product from Mongoose should take a look at The Beyond, especially given all the material for the adjacent Trojan Reach. Beyond the Beyond, the Vanguard Reaches doesn't look so bad…
The "official" "Under Review" version on travellermaps.com is kind of awful. I object less to giant furry spiders than to flying humans, but for the purpose of transit, the star systems themselves are an issue, not just the symmetrical star patterns, but the gas giant population.
I've taken it upon myself to play with the admittedly early and raw version of Deepnight Revelation from the Kickstarter as an admittedly overly ambitious solo project with the goal of providing useful feedback (I've pretty much had to redesign every ship, some because they were wrong, others because I wanted to go in a slightly different way, but that's something I'll post on Kickstarter after the release of the next version).
But anyway, I got the expedition to Tobia in more detail than necessary as a "shakedown cruise" and a way to learn all the rules. Now comes a nearly two-year transit to the edge of Charted Space. I could drive along the Rift through Aslan space, using the Great Rift sectors, but it makes more sense to cut through Florian space and into The Beyond.
There's barely any gas giants! The system layout is goofy! The system names are silly and even the Aslan worlds have inappropriate names!
Fortunately, travellermaps also has an Apocryphal and an Unofficial version of The Beyond (you can search for them to find out where they're stashed), both appearing to use the same, much more "normal" star layout and gas giant frequency. I think I'm going to go with that layout. Not sure what I want to do about the political layout, so there might be a lot of fast transits using gas giant refueling and not a lot of social calls.
But seriously, somebody, whether the T5SS or a future product from Mongoose should take a look at The Beyond, especially given all the material for the adjacent Trojan Reach. Beyond the Beyond, the Vanguard Reaches doesn't look so bad…