Re: Hub Worlds
In reply to #7245 Hub Worlds by Anthony "K." Baggaley
Anthony "K." Baggaley [email removed] writes: > Expect the Hub Worlds to be decimated by virus/civil war/teddy bears just >as soon as the majority of Traveller players start to ask GDW what they are >playing at. Actually, that's why the HubWorlds needs all those resources, as I see it. Kaggushus is sitting in a very dangerous spot. Massilia was the most technologically advanced sector of the Imperium -- some twenty-odd tech 16 worlds were in the sector (one of which *was* Kaggushus). That means there could be a lot of dangerous Virus-infected high tech hardware flying around the area. On the other side, the Hub is very close to the edge of the Black Curtain, and nobody in the Hub has any idea what might be lurking in there, eating exploratory ships. They might need to find out one of these days. Also, note that the coreward neighbor to the HubWorld's Ershur subsector is Core sector's Cadion subsector. There are at least two interesting things to check out there. Just over the border is Reference/Cadion (Core 0140). The astrographic center of the Imperial navigation system, and former data repository of the IISS Imperial Grand Survey. If even partially intact, it could be a treasure trove of information for rebuilding or raiding dead and not-so-dead worlds. Of course, it's probably a death trap, considering that life support on the airless rock was computer controlled and that there are tens of thousands of different data storage computers networked under that rock, as well as Imperial Naval and Scout bases sited in the system. The second target in the subsector would be Lucan's research station where Virus was actually developed. It might be inside the Black Curtain, but there could still be useful information that wasn't destroyed by the staff, the Virus, or Dulinor's raiders. In fact, it's interesting that the Hub survived the initial Virus attack that close to the release point.... ******************************************************************************* Steve Bonneville | "Beware the tablespoon my son, | The teeth that bite, the Claus that catch, [email removed] | Beware the Subjects bird, and shred | The serious Bandwidth!" *******************************************************************************