Background:
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Some weeks ago I posted some thumbnail notes about a
Shattered Imperium campaign I was designing. The
campaign will take place in the Querion subsector of the
Spinward Marches. The campaign is specifically designed
for a part of PC pirates. Although they don't know it,
the PC's are being manipulated by one of Archduke
Norris's own right-hand men, to help him accomplish
military and political missions.
In order to get a feel for the politics of this
subsector (none of which falls within Imperial borders),
I decided to write a program to take the UWP's of the
systems and sort them on each parameter so that I could
see, for instance, which systems had the highest level
of technology.
I then produced a "System Profile" for each system, with
all the standard parameters and their corresponding text
descriptions.
To each System Profile I added some notes about who ran
the system, where it fit into the subsector economy, and
anything else that seemed interesting about this
particular system. I also generated characters where
appropriate.
The result is what I am calling my homebrew campagin
pack.
Offer:
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If anyone is interested, I could submit this pack to the
mailing list. It is, however, rather large (~60K last
look), so I'm asking before posting. Once again, the
notes are in rather rough shape, being intended solely
for my own use when created, but they might nonetheless
provide campaign ideas for other refs out there.
In the next message I am going to post a sampling of two
system profiles. I am intentionally choosing two of the
most interesting ones, most of them are not as lengthy
or detailed. I will admit right here that I have
borrowed from science fiction literature and movies.
When I looked at the data for Xhosa, it just screamed
"Foundation" at me, and it fit in so well with the
general themes of the campaign that I couldn't resist.
I intend to have the pack completed within one week. If
anyone is interested, I could post it either in
installments or one big lump.
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Ed Driscoll
The University of Michigan
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