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The PC's of my Traveller game have accumulated enough raw materials to get the Droyne to build them a starship, likely the first non-Droyne Jump 3 vessel in their region of space in the era they're playing in.
This ... isn't their ship. This is just the small craft that will be attached to the back of their merchanter. Although unarmed, at 5G's and with stealth capabilities, the Miskri class launch makes an excellent spyship, blockade runner, or inter-orbital transit craft.
With only one bunk, its not recommended that more than 1 or 2 actually use the ship for interplanetary jaunts. In a pinch, its 5 tons of cargo and 10 passenger seats do make it a pretty pimped out lifeboat for the craft carrying it.
This ... isn't their ship. This is just the small craft that will be attached to the back of their merchanter. Although unarmed, at 5G's and with stealth capabilities, the Miskri class launch makes an excellent spyship, blockade runner, or inter-orbital transit craft.
With only one bunk, its not recommended that more than 1 or 2 actually use the ship for interplanetary jaunts. In a pinch, its 5 tons of cargo and 10 passenger seats do make it a pretty pimped out lifeboat for the craft carrying it.
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Thankies. S'interesting - still most of the gaming action's been taking place on this outer balkanized Droyne moon of a gas giant.
The system's odd, obviously 'tweaked' ancients style. The habitable zone is really right around orbit 2 to 2.5 or so for the main star.
Mainworld's in orbit 2 - Droyne prime habitable - with a Droyne habitable moon. But there's also a captured gas giant in orbit 2.3, with several more habitable Droyne worlds orbiting it. A few are claimed by the main world, and a couple are droyne 'balkanized' - multiple independent oytrips.
The Minsk PC's are all living with a Deathless colony on one of these moons, stationed in the end-towers over a giant hydro-electric damn no one can remember who built - getting their high-school/college graduate kits that have tested for psionic potential trained by the deathless there.
They're having to cope with the whole Droyne community concept of 'everyone pulls his own weight', (fishing, hunting, patrolling the area, repairing computers, repairing fishing nets, etc.) despite pumping lots of resources and money into refurbishing the place. And it can be disconcerting to wake up and have bury/cremate a Drone or Sport you were having a friendly conversation the night before - because they gave up, or they finished their 'deathless purpose' task.
Another subplot behind this is a 20 year malaria like plague outbreak that decimates the moon's population that's on the cusp of occurring again. One fo the deathless Sports nearly has a cure, but all communication has to be done through the player characters as the alien intermediaries - the local deathless are seen in that bad of a light.
One of the more paranoid Oytrips has even moved to exterminate a farming Oytrip that had a partial outbreak early - only 20 deaths from the disease, but the paraoid Oytrip wiped out nearly 6,000 of their neighbors to try to prevent it spreading. Obviously the Droyne here are a little ... different.
The system's odd, obviously 'tweaked' ancients style. The habitable zone is really right around orbit 2 to 2.5 or so for the main star.
Mainworld's in orbit 2 - Droyne prime habitable - with a Droyne habitable moon. But there's also a captured gas giant in orbit 2.3, with several more habitable Droyne worlds orbiting it. A few are claimed by the main world, and a couple are droyne 'balkanized' - multiple independent oytrips.
The Minsk PC's are all living with a Deathless colony on one of these moons, stationed in the end-towers over a giant hydro-electric damn no one can remember who built - getting their high-school/college graduate kits that have tested for psionic potential trained by the deathless there.
They're having to cope with the whole Droyne community concept of 'everyone pulls his own weight', (fishing, hunting, patrolling the area, repairing computers, repairing fishing nets, etc.) despite pumping lots of resources and money into refurbishing the place. And it can be disconcerting to wake up and have bury/cremate a Drone or Sport you were having a friendly conversation the night before - because they gave up, or they finished their 'deathless purpose' task.
Another subplot behind this is a 20 year malaria like plague outbreak that decimates the moon's population that's on the cusp of occurring again. One fo the deathless Sports nearly has a cure, but all communication has to be done through the player characters as the alien intermediaries - the local deathless are seen in that bad of a light.
One of the more paranoid Oytrips has even moved to exterminate a farming Oytrip that had a partial outbreak early - only 20 deaths from the disease, but the paraoid Oytrip wiped out nearly 6,000 of their neighbors to try to prevent it spreading. Obviously the Droyne here are a little ... different.
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