It's TRUE!
You can start playing now. Try to wake up and take off from where you
went to sleep. :-)
Here's a quick synopsis of Season One:
Several people have volunteered to undertake an exploration of a
newly-discovered, intact, ringworld. This is a largely scientific
mission, underwritten by a Megacorporation. The underwriters,
Turnskaad Enterprises (out of the Marches) have been very secretive
about the location of the new world, called R-alpha.
Most of the time so far has spent with pilots in simulations, engineers
trying to make some brand-new engines work right the first time, and
Security folks trying to get everyone else to hand over their weapons.
Scientists have pieced together an incomplete model of R-alpha, but
they do have good adeas about spin rate, gravitics, energy production,
locations of possible lifeforms, and have identified a few good places
to land.
The exploration team has just nestled down for what might be an
extended cruise at someone else's expense, and have had a rip-roaring
party. (Mainly because the GM's machines went down and he had a
full-intellect immersion in work last June.)
Now people are starting to wake up to the lyrical sound of digitized
trumpet music on the intercom and the Navigator's sonorous tones:
"Yo! Anyone awake back there?"