Aight then...

Possibly Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...-556053885216158992/

yeah, I saw that pin today when doing a search.  I could not really find any specifics about it other than it is a Far Trader class ship.

There's material out there on it, just not willing to pay 20 something in cash for it... :o)

Call me cheap, but I can make something up.

In reply to GM (msg # 35):

Call me poor. The Empress Katarina is highly modified, an Empress Marava class ship. Yup, that is where he got the deck plans.
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Be dismayed not, my travellers, for I am slowly processing all this information.  It JUST dawned on me, after all this reading, that there is NO experience points.... no levels... none of that.  Just time getting experienced and following whatever story comes before you.

Marvelous!

;-) Yup, ain't that sweet! None of that BS to keep track of!

I was never sure what version of of Traveller we were playing, let alone where the GM got his source material!! I rolled my stats and career, had skills assigned... And that was it. Washed out on my first roll.

To be fair, GM Starmaster took over the game from another GM, and the Katerina was the original GM's invention based on the Marava hull type. There was some discussion as to how the ship was created as we had two turret hardpoints (standard for the ship class), a missile bay (which wasn't standard) and was jump 3, but still retained the same internal cabin space.

We've now got an improved sensor suite (acquired from the Zhodani base) installed which was only possible as we installed different components across the different modules of the ship.

So I think GM license played a huge part in its creation.

Saying that; the missile bay took a hit during our space combat protecting the ship we were salvaging. It's easy to say that whatever miracle made it work is now damaged and therefore we have to resort to just the two standard turrets... Or you can just modify the ship to suit your needs and we'll all work with you.

Want the Zhodani sensor suite to work but cause us loads of problems?? (Imperial suspicion??) Go for it. It doesn't work?? We can sell it.


As fir character development, yeah. No levels. Makes it real easy to track and improve. Also real easy to die. Group of thugs sat at a table, there's no spell that reads auras to tell you what level they are also you can decide whether to risk a fight... It's take a risk with the consequences being a real quick end if you pick wrong.

Any info on this guy?  Who is he?  Admiral of what?

Getting close to starting this thing off... I hope we are all still active and interested!

I will hold off posting for more players until after I get familiar with the game.  If we need NPCs, I will make some as well.  Right now, I think we have the compliment of characters to man the craft sufficiently.   I'm not sure about skills that might be required at ground level of play.  Everything will not be in space.

Anyway, thank you all for your patience.

Amundsen was nobility as well as an admiral, though none of us checked out hus background much.

We all responded to his summons, and he had detailed files on us as part of our "interview". He had his own crew who helped train us while we travelled on the Katerina to the warship we were going to salvage.

As we repaired another ship arrived - a rival of Amundsen. Amundsen's crew remained on the warship while we intercepted the other ship to give them time to escape.

When the warship jumped so too fid the rival. We were damaged, and knew the warship had been involved in strike on a Zhodani base on a rogue planetoid, so we found that, made it a base and cleared it out of salvage to sell as well as refuel and restock our consumables.


So we know the location of a hidden base very few know about (not even Amundsen or his rival), we have a positive relationship with Amundsen and his crew and while the warship was his target, we have a rival annoyed with us for letting the warship escape...

Patron: Amundsen
Enemy: Endo


We also had a few stop overs and a couple of us had romantic engagements (read obsession for Levi) that we wanted to explore further. Can't find the thread that contained her details, but she was at the very.leadt a potential contact / NPC / source for emotional and non-combat plot.

In reply to GM (msg # 44):

Theodore was interested in Tanja, they are good friends now, with no benefits! ;-) Harry was with Dawn briefly, but she moved on, it was all about benefits. ;-)

Dawn?  Care to elaborate?  NPC/contact?

In reply to GM (msg # 46):

Dawn Hunter, she left the game, was an NPC. The owner also ran Eldorado 'Fatboy' Stout, he was the computer guru, We need Fatboy, who has since lost over 100 pounds, but is still fat.
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I will create them both today.

Thanks.

Any other NPCs worth creating from your history?

In reply to GM (msg # 48):

Anyone else? I'm pretty good. Thanks Nate, we lost quite a few people it looks like, it would have been too big then though, it was 3 games being combined!

You would have needed a much larger ship....

Levi's love interest I cannot recall her name. She had wanted to come off world as she was clever, determined and resourceful - but fate had dealt her a bad hand a and she was basically a barmaid in the lowport on a backwater world.

If we're jumping time (it looks like we are) in happy for him to have returned, "rescued" her and have her jump ship the first time we land on a better world.

Also, it was the missile bay damaged in combat. We had an improved sensor suite but upgraded that one at the base using Zhodani base sensor. Happy for us to also have the sensors damaged as a way for us to need urgent funds to repair it...



Crew from the original Empress Katarina.

Fatboy Stout
He was our overweight computer hacker who disliked the idea of space travel. Nice to have, as hacking is a fantastic skill in Sci-Fi. But replaceable if anyone else has a decent computer skill.

Karma Starwind
Our captain as Tanja refused the role. Also a pilot and navigator. Happy for her to jump ship and find employment elsewhere as her skills were already covered by others.

Dawn Hunter
Gunner and security specialist. Think she was also a survivalist??

Marc "Blackie"
Same as Dawn, I believe?? Is he a player again??

The others were rolled in from other threads so I can't comment on them.

In reply to Levi Stensgaard (msg # 51):

Blackie Duquesne.

You're enjoying the heck out of this, aren't you Nate? ;-)

Yeah, it's pretty interesting.  I'm excited to see how this plays out in game.

Is "Endo" a person or corporation?

In reply to GM (msg # 54):

He's a person. Bad guy.

Character generation is daunting!

In reply to GM (msg # 56):

There are generators if you want to. Character creation is the only pain I ever felt in Traveller. In Classic Traveller, and here to to a lesser extent, you can die during creation. So if that happens, you fudge it and just say he was hurt bad and has to muster out! ;-)

I loved character generation for traveller. Most of my characters died when rolling for careers, and both Levi and Tanja were injured and mustered out before the end of their first term!!