Roger Sanger said the following:
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> Whatever happened to Strephon? In your campaign that is.
Hee, hee, hee.
Steve Gumnit assassinated him back in 1979 or so. In real
world time 1979. Game time was also 1979 Terran dating system
as well!
Any number of folks after that attempted to grab the Iridium
hot seat since then. The few that successfully managed to
take it found that it really wasn't worth having. It is
really hard to keep a low profile when you are Emperor!
I had a group that was around when Strephon was assassinated
ala GDW; however, they were really far out on the rim and the
news was about 2 years old at the time. They were much too
busy surviving and avoiding 'Imperial entanglements' to check
up on what happened.
My current game is set in 1105, so Strephon is still alive and
kicking. The players are Zhodani agents, so we will see what
happens.
> Do you think Norris would have tried to send a mission into the
> wilds to save his Emperor?
Well, since I don't use the virus, and I never had quite the
destruction that GDW did, there aren't 'WILDS' in my game. I
(and my players more importantly) didn't want to play
Twilight 2000 in space.
> Was Strephon's world destroyed? Or did it become a pocket empire
> (and who rules it now)? Is Strephon still alive in your campaign
> (via anagathics, cold sleep, hybernation, or some other hi-tech
> development)?
I still use a picture of the Shaw of Iran as the picture of
Strephon.
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