>And what of the MegaCorporations? Wouldn't they want to reclaim their
>companies' assets?
Considering the fear and confusion at the time of the Rebellion and
Collapse MegaCorps (MCs) would lose interest in their holdings. When
the tales of Virus first enetered the Domain of Deneb a number of the
MCs would probably have sent a mixture of company assets and hired
agents to contact branches of the MC in the 3I Core.
These would have met with varied fates including falling victim to
forces of the Rebellion, Privateers, corsairs, Virus-controlled ships
planets, & stations, and even populations tired and/or made paranoid by
the Rebellion/Virus threat. Since disregard of the quarantine does not
seem to occur to any large degree it can probably be assumed that the
missions sent by the MCs universally met with total disaster (i.e. they
didn't return).
Since the year 1200 many of the MCs will probably be looking with
increasing interest at files from the time of the Rebellion and finding
a number of interesting data. With the collapse of society most
inventories will probably be assumed to have been confiscated or
destroyed by someone in the intervening 75 years. It is possible that
ships both under construction and those already built might exist but
again they will most likely have been confiscated or even captured by
Virus. The final type of data rediscovered will be of most interest to
the remaining MCs within the Regency.
DATA - R&D and Industrial Espionage. The past 75 years has certainly
been less than stable - even within the Regency. Even though MCs have
continued R&D the quality of the work in many cases is inferior to what
was done before Collapse. The quantity of projects has also undoubtly
decreased along with the loss of MC assets beond the Regency.
As the MCs continue to look at these old files listing the type and
location of R&D they will begin to form ideas for sending teams to
search and recover that data. In some cases the site of such missions
might be original sector or corporate HQs. These missions can be
expected to have to overcome the unknown just to arrive at the system
containing their target and then in some cases perform extensive survey
& sensor work to locate facilities. These facilities may be under
control of Virus, genetic experiments, and planetary populations who
possess the range of attitudes possible in the Wilds. Quite a number of
such missions could be run for campaigns operating within the Regency.
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DATA REQUEST - Can anyone tell me what published material for any
version of Traveller contains data on the systems in Deneb, Corridor, &
Vland? Thank you in advance.
PBJuzyk "You can't choose your death, Death chooses you!"