[TML] UFO ( was Re: Trade Tables [SEC=UNOFFICIAL])

[Garry Ward]

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Subject: [TML] UFO ( was Re: Trade Tables [SEC=UNOFFICIAL])


> On 2 Oct 2007 at 13:36, david.d.jaques-watson at centrel wrote:
>
>> Dear Folks -
>>
>> Leonard replied to Stuart:
>> >>But the best was UFO, of Shadow fame.
>> >
>> >SHADO actually.
>>
>> "10 years...I've given 10 years of sweat and sacrifice to get SHADO
>> running the way I want it. And I won't let some young punk like you mess
>> things up!"
>> - Lt. Col. Straker
>>
>> Cool show!
>
> Occurs to me that UFO could be reworked into an "interesting"
> Traveller adventure.
>
> Instead of Earth, have a world outside the Imperial borders. They
> haven't been contacted by anybody but the organlegger "pirates" that
> have been raiding them for years (a higher TL world nearby).
>
Why not Earth? If I recall correctly, there is some mystery as to why the 
first extra solar trip via Jump drive went to Barnard's star instead of 
Alpha Centuri. One theory was that there were those in the government that 
knew about the aliens.

My own sketchy notes on a Traveller: UFO game involved some clandestine 
raiding by Vilani seeking exotic ... entertainers .... for the wealthy and 
powerful. It involved a game starting out as a Twilight:2000 based Merc 
adventure (PCs would be police, FBI or DEA) that lead the PCs to finding out 
that fly saucers were real and putting them in the position of Colonel 
Straker.

Garry
> The players misjump into the system and have to deal with SHADO....
>
> --
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> shadow at shadowgard dot com
>
>
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