Re: Challenge 70

 hummmm, bit quiet around here isn't it?

   I agree with everything Jo Jaquinta wrote about C70 and TNE, yet again one
  of us is so annoyed by a GDW product that we have to post some more reasons
  why TNE is rubbish compared to Classic Traveller (I'm tempted to go through
  the bundles and collect all of them together, to look at when I'm tempted to
  buy a TNE product, but my account doesn't have that much memory:)).
   The TNS page almost ruined *my* carpet as well, it felt like a special
  delivery kick in the gonads to everyone who liked old Traveller, and the rest
  of the stuff wasn't much better. I like the point that most Rebellion or TNE
  scenarios are closer to CNN than SF. We are VERY out of touch with how GDW
  thinks.
   Anyway, they saved the best for last- in full colour, on the back page, the
  ad for BENDY ROBOT TOYS. I know Role-players are immature but that's going a
  bit far. It's either 1) Well done GDW for fooling the manufacturer into
                          thinking RPGers will be interested.
                       2) A sign of Challenges new market. (Can we send off for
                          Uncle Bwana badges and masks soon?)

   End of This Months Rant.

    And Now.......

   Another Reason The Virus Never Happened!!!!!!!

   I've been waiting for someone to mention this since Survival Margin came
  out, but nobody brought it up....

   The 'AI' transponders were approved for use in 1088, and were phased in
  over a 12 year period ( Survival Margin doesn't DEFINITELY say that it was
  started in 1088, leaving GDW a cop-out, but it implies it). That means the
  tamper-proof transponders were in place by 1100, which is not exactly true
  according to The Traveller Adventure, where the PCs get a programable Trans-
  ponder, and several other references to fake-transponders even later. Thus
  the Transponders never existed...
   OK, so the Virus didn't need the Transponders, but it certainly shows how
  little notice GDW paid to the old Traveller material, and that TNE is not
  the same timeline as Classic Traveller.
   (all this depends on there not being a TNS which gives a later date for the
  introduction....I've been half right before....)

                    Your's, or anyone else's
                         Anthony K.
    Good Thought For the Day:
      There are a whole new generation of players who DON'T know all GDWs and
     FASAs adventures by heart (backwards).