Wrath Of The Ancients - Questions - SPOILERS

[PeterFdH]

So after receiving my hardback copy of Wrath I've started to work my way through it - around a quarter of the way in and it looks intriguing but there's one aspect of the start of this part of the campaign that's confusing me. Perhaps the forums can help?

The Cold Moon chapter relates how the Travellers have a dream experience that thrusts them into a situation on an alien spaceship. This allows the players some agency to investigate the situation and gives them access to a new ship.

And then next chapter...

Suddenly the Travellers have arrived in-system in their own ship having to dodge debris from a space battle.

I'm really confused on how these two situations hang together and how I'm supposed to run this.

Help...

 

[Alasdair090]

What I figured is when they fall unconscious and before they wake up on the cold moon, they have traveled a while just do not remember the part to where they are (as things were happening to them) and after they get access to the new ship, they have few more jumps to go get to where the debris is located at. I looked at where they were when they fall unconscious and where they needed to go and tried to find a location around halfway in between and that is where the cold moon was located.

On the cold moon they learn about the location with the debris as to where they should go to next.

 

[Space Smurf]

While preparing the session where we will start the Wrath of the Ancients part of the campaign I'm skimming the text to find in which system the "Cold Moon" section is taking place - and cannot find that information.
I've read the whole thing a while ago, but probably did not pay special attention to this deail then (as I did not have to look for possible routes leading there ).

While I have no qualms to just place it where I like, maybe someone can point me to the "official" starting location I seem to be overlooking?

 

[Alasdair090]

I have not been able to figure out the official location so when my group gets there I will just picking one, the one I will pick will be a random location with low to no population about midway between the ending of Secret of the Ancients and the debris field they end up at so they can hide and come back for the whatever ship they are using at the time if they want.

 

[Alasdair090]

Would just want to figure out how far away they were when they forget everything and depending on which ship they are using the time it would take to get to the frozen moon with refueling and resupply runs for food and such, cause they are going to ask what day shows on their computer systems.

 

[Space Smurf]

I was looking for a suitable planet close to Andor for Cold Moon, as I didn't want a long journey between the "Something terrible is/will be happening on Andor" moment and the arrival shortly after the incident there.

So I settled for 0533 Penelope:
It's a TL 4 world with a gas giant and one jump away (traveling with the Nameless Ship) from Andor.

 

[Alasdair090]

After thinking about it, that is probably a good planet, since what is taking place on Andor and there are people in the debris that need saving. So, 1 jump away with 2 jumps the longest you want them to be able to get there quick and the Imperial Navy probably has supply ships coming every 2-4 week.

 

[J. L. Brown]

Have you read / decided how the Ancients uplift paths will work? Wrath has two contradictory systems, neither of which is really complete.