[TML] When the Lights Go Out

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/1/07 2:00 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote:

> Ob Traveller: A backwater Imperial system might not often have
> starships drop by, how long would absence of a ship showing up
> would it take before the locals started getting worried? Long
> Night, Rebellion, being cut off by a war...that you might not
> have even heard of yet? And if that ship *never* came what
> would the locals do about it?

This sounds like an interesting campaign hook.  What if the PCs are on such
a "cut off" world, without (at least to start) their own starship?



On 8/1/07 2:00 PM, Evyn MacDude wrote:

> All depends on how self suficent that world is, that is one of my
> favorite
> things about TNE, the Rebellion cleared out a lot of deadwood systems.

Well, by your definition, Capital would be "deadwood".  It doesn't have the
farmland to feed all those people.  In fact, all major population centers
are like that.  Yet the major population centers are pretty much the
defining characteristic of "civilization!

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