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[J. L. Brown]

Act One is 'Meet the Malcontents' -- all the disparate conflicting forces acting to tear the Third Imperium apart from within.
Act Two introduces several other CI's -- including the 'Deyo Chip' project.

This thing looks like 'Apocolypse In A Can'.
Rebellion Era in Act One; Virus in Act Two; all we need now is some sort of treatment of the 'Empress Wave' in Act Three.

I might relocate the action to the Spinward Frontier (Dostoevsky, maybe, or Sarage, or Froin, or Judice), and mix it into 'Pirates of Drinax'. Maybe create a Sindalian Empire connection, and tie it into the events of Makergod.

A 'luxury liner' service doing J-4: TOBIA -J-4- Fist -J-4- Cordan -J-4- Tech-World -J-4- TYOKH could work; if the passengers are 'the 1%' then there is a pool of ~400 million potential customers to draw from.

 

[Sigtrygg]

The thing is the Deyo chip is not an AI or CI. It is a silicon lifeform...

unless this is yet another retcon.

 

[Seffix]

Exactly, it seems pretty clear to me that this is the path we've been on since around 2018 or thereabouts — the OTU's "official timeline" terminates in 1105, where you then 'boot up' your copy of the OTU at your table and from there, it inevitably will diverge to one degree or another.

This line of reasoning also seems to agree with the views MWM himself has expressed as of late in regards to the timeline and different paths that meander and then re-join, so whilst as of yet unspoken, it seems to me safe to assume this is Mongoose's stance on it. Personally, I'm a big fan.

I am fond of Traveller & Hârn's story 'up to now' approaches.

 

[J. L. Brown]

The thing is the Deyo chip is not an AI or CI. It is a silicon lifeform...

unless this is yet another retcon.

It might be, but I am willing to allow for some degree of 'unreliable narrator' here. The 3I might well regard it as an intelligence created by 3I researchers, using exotic materials -- and (when they admit that it even exists at all) present it that way.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Is there any scope for PCs to all be A.I. themselves and maybe use the Robot construction rules?

 

[paltrysum]

Is there any scope for PCs to all be A.I. themselves and maybe use the Robot construction rules?

It isn't covered verbatim, but the campaign dances around the idea, especially in Act 2. The narrative as presented focuses on your biological Travellers as the central figures of the campaign.

 

[Sigtrygg]

If you can download a personality into a suit of battledress I would say robot PCs are on the cards...

by the way once the electronic personalities have done their mission what happens if the copy doesn't want to die?

 

[Sigtrygg]

Another thought, have you considered a way to skip the liner crew in the dark bit? I know this is a lot of the first act, but how many people will be unaware of the secret by the time this gets let loose in the wild?
Does Naalir have other copies of itself built into other ships.

How did it build its copy into the liner in the first place...

 

[paltrysum]

If you can download a personality into a suit of battledress I would say robot PCs are on the cards...

by the way once the electronic personalities have done their mission what happens if the copy doesn't want to die?

That scenario is discussed in the Embodiments stretch goal. Yeah, all kinds of uncharted territory to explore with your Travellers.

 

[Sigtrygg]

And another another thought.

As it is presented at the moment the PCs will aid Naalir and an era of Utopian nectar and honey will begin - anyone else think this is unlikely...

are we being set up for every Traveller future (and past) era and even setting being a simulation...

it would certainly put an end to canon conflicts and contradictions... Naalir did it

 

[paltrysum]

Another thought, have you considered a way to skip the liner crew in the dark bit? I know this is a lot of the first act, but how many people will be unaware of the secret by the time this gets let loose in the wild?
Does Naalir have other copies of itself built into other ships.

How did it build its copy into the liner in the first place...

You have the leisure to cut to the chase. I realize it can be hard to keep such secrets from players. The bunch I ran through Pirates of Drinax ran from completely clueless to the secrets of the campaign to those whom I suspected read it beforehand in secret. I encouraged the latter to please suspend their 'prophecies' from polluting everyone's immersion.

I don't want to go too meta about Naalir copying itself to other locations, but yes, that could conceivably happen. It is discussed in the Counter Campaigns stretch goal. Also, the narrative gets into its original implantation in the Ventura Fortuna in some degree of detail; hopefully it meets your expectations.

 

[Sigtrygg]

It's been a long time since a Traveller adventure or campaign has interested me as much as Singularity has. From what I havs seen so far I think, as you have put it, "it meets your expectations."

 

[Vormaerin]

Yeah. I liked reading the other Traveller campaigns and adventures, but the Project Bayern for 2300 is the only one until now that made me go "I want to run this" (as opposed to cannibalizing it for parts). This is definitely giving me that same vibe. Very much looking forward to getting the full material.

 

[Sheelba]

It feels like an appropriate next step for the travellers who emerged from the Ancients campaign. I wonder if they will make room for that.

 

[Nadia Grell]

From "When Empires Fall (Part 2)" in Challenge Magazine
I do not know what I feel right now...

 

[Sigtrygg]

It feels like an appropriate next step for the travellers who emerged from the Ancients campaign. I wonder if they will make room for that.

I don't think those supermen would be interested in such a triviality.

 

[Sigtrygg]

From "When Empires Fall (Part 2)" in Challenge Magazine
I do not know what I feel right now...

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This weaponised version was built on tech based on the Deyo chip which has been researched for decades by the Imperium. The Imperium first obtained Cymberline chips in the 1067 and developed them into the Deyo transponder by 1086, the whole of Imperial ship transponder tech was then based around them. Some have even suggested an early version may be what tipped the Kinunir computer over the edge...

I should add that on Cyberline the silicon based life forms were not all sentient like the one that would be found by the PCs during the events of Signal GK. The Imperium discovered the sub-sentient strains. The sentient ones were the result of Cymberline chips scavenging the electronics of the crashed Terran ISW era cruiser.