The first session of the Classic
Traveller mini-campaign (the admittedly clumsily-titled Coup Box)
kicked off last week and I had a splendid time keeping up with the
machinations of the players. An hour into the session they were
already scheming to double-cross their patrons and install a
pro-Dogoid (really Vargr is such a loaded racist term) rights regime
after their coup.
In my usual fit of over-doing it I
added a few more elements to liven it up. The first was recruiting
old homegroup standby, Mack of Super Galactic Dreadnought, to play the
part of Admiral Mahkson, a former Cantonment Navy ensign turned
Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kral (the coup target). Over three matches of X-Wing Saturday, he has
already injected a few devious notes into the mix.
Knowing that some large-scale battles
were coming down the pike, I spent sometime this weekend marrying
Deep Evan and I's much-tested pen-and-paper skirmish rules for Feudal
Anarchy with some elements of that old Traveller minis warhorse
Striker. If you'd like to see the draft version (and promise to give
me some feedback) drop me a line.
But now the news.
Tonight on Raving Foxoid Holostem
News...
Monglocorp has wrapped up its
aggressive acquisition of the intellectual rights of Logsoph and now
holds exclusive rights to the concept of Ontology. In
newly-issued generous licensing terms, personages uttering or
expressing an inquiry into the nature of Being are now obliged to
post or state a trademarked statement and to pay a modest 10CR
royalty to the conglom.
Two-Hour War hero Colonel Zog
has been abducted by “men foul and rough” from his tower-flat
according to his beloved niece Kocka. Missing since yesterday, the
Novo Marlank police have promised a “full and thorough
investigation into the matter just after they clear off the current
caseload.”
The civil war on Freedonia
continues to have everything change and stay the same. Three
firefights this week “timed out” when the 20-percent casualty
caps were reached leaving front lines much the same. In this
ever-fracturing war a fifth grouplet, the Polar Autonome
Commonwealth, a minority, northen-based splinter from the radical
decentralist Microbalkanizers, has thrown its own factional hat into
the ring.
In other news on the moon, in a
holo-press release from the Kral state new service, the
government of that isolated city-state has declared that the southern
town of Zumhaa has been renamed to Autokratorstad in order to
best honor the “30th jubilee-year of our most beloved
Maximum Leader's reign.” Hysterical tears of joy were expressed
around the ceremonial bark-tea and mollusk-cookies tables by the
rounded-up crowd.
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