I just got Challenge 65.
Reading "Deadly Artifact" gave me the sneaking feeling that I had seen this
story in a movie somewhere. A cross between Terminator II and Alien.
C'mon, you Challenge guys. Didn't you do the "Ancient Assassin" number
last time you did one of these Horror issues?
I also notice that they added in a Dyson Sphere into the Imperium. Bad
move. They describe it as "several sectors away". If the ship had been
drifting for 3500 years, and covered 90 parsecs (less than three secotrs),
then it was going 0.084c. Which is 29+ days at 1G. Nice number, but the
PCs' merchant ship sure isn't going to match courses at that speed. So the
Dyson sphere is close by. This should be the most significant event in
human history here - the discovery of a reasonably intact Ancient WORLD.
Well, actually, a few million worlds all in one box. But still catastrophic
to a campaign. Can you say "TL25 artifacts by the billions"? Sure you
can.
---Steve