BASILISK STATION - A TRAVELLER BLOG

Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay   From the History of the Harem Sector in Foreven by Dr. Hatishiv Logius Once a Zhodani aligned state, even the Zhodani Consulate has distanced itself since the People’s Revolutionary Party seized power in a hard coup in 1082 (Imperial). The genesis of the People’s Supremacy was a growing perception that those empowered with psionic abilities were innately better than non-psionic enabled people. While largely inline with Zhodani philosophy (reference the position of the proles), Minister Andyr Fualiz positioned the then People’s Party--a vaguely communist-anarchist oriented group--into a more aggressive, psion superiority party. When slapped with the term supremacist movement, Fualiz embraced the term. In the early hours of day 1082.53 (Imperial), Fualiz and Admiral Habix Villous (a secret psion who had for years ensured the rise of fellow psions to high military ranks) seized the capital city, Nolar, and secured the system wit...

For the Goodwill Tour, I rolled up randomly nearly every planet in the Foreven sector. I left untouched the few canonical worlds, but everything else was random with one exception. A campaign idea revolves around the planet Tavisol, which I purposely designed and also wanted a bit of distance from other system. Reasons. The rest, though, I went random. I was toying with a few ideas for running my solo game, and I kept to the area around Tavisol. I had not fleshed out any of the systems beyond the basic rolls, and the few multi system polities I left ready to be discovered. Hence, the People’s Supremacy seemed like a potentially interesting setting. A totalitarian state with a charismatic oligarchy centered on Klebe (C246ACD-D). I’ve started to flesh out this government, which I’ll share in the near future. I also determined to set my solo game in Carcharoth (C630776-B), a captive government under the thumb of the People’s Supremacy. My solo game will focus on a band of rebels. I’m goin...

   Image by Reimund Bertrams at Pixabay While I hope to get the "Goodwill Tour" going again--life and then COVID made me much busier. That said, I'm really missing my Traveller fix, so I'm going to fire up a solo campaign that I will be posting here to. It'll be slower paced, fitting into my schedule, but it'll be solely within my control. More info coming soon. This will take place in my Foreven sector, but far away from the events in the "Goodwill Tour."

On May 1st from 7-11 pm Eastern, you can watch a unique charity event. We are running a streaming game in support of the Carcinoid Cancer Foundation . We want to bring awareness to these cancers that, on average, take five years to diagnose properly. By that time, many patients have suffered terribly. My wife was first diagnosed after five years of suffering ever more frequent, debilitating pain. The kind of pain that took the breath out of her, came from nowhere, and doubled her over in agony. It was heartbreaking to watch and having no ability to help her or even know what was going on. And we tried. Years of doctor and specialist visits. MRIs. Restricting diets. Nothing seemed to work. Finally, one night, she told me to take her to the emergency room, and she told me in all seriousness she thought was going to die. A surgeon who knew what he was looking for correctly diagnosed a two-and-half centimeter carcinoid in her small intestine that had finally resulted in full blocka...

Space Butterfly: NASA/JPL-Caltech If you want to start at the beginning.... Rules for this referee-less, play by post game. Chapter 2 Gyuen Deimos  exits jump space a week later in the Gyuen system. Lero rubs his eyes. He’s been on the bridge for several hours. He drinks some coffee, hoping it renews his vigor. Let’s hope this goes better than Krenshawz.  He says, ”Okay, give me what we’ve got.” The Lieutenant Scraber says, “Sir, map of Gyuen on screen.” “Water world. Officially, 98.23% water. Class B down port. Planet size of 10,423-mile diameter. A dense, but high atmosphere.” Lero says, ”So water world. There’s no highlands for the pressure to be bearable?” Scraber says, “Aye, sir. The cities are sealed domes atop pylons driven deep into the planet’s ocean bottoms. Oceans are, however, fairly shallow, 1,500 meters. Population of 4,034,126 from last census data. That’s four years ago. Government is oligarchy. Looks like five families dominate. Th...

History of Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, MSFC, 2001 If you want to start at the beginning.... Rules for this referee-less, play by post game. Chapter 1 Part 15 Krenshawz Zernov ambles into the room. Late night emergency meetings like this are when Zernov's age and preference for lower G is the most evident. He's stiff, and quicker to find his chair. The morning routine of stretches and warmups had to be skipped, and without combat there was no adrenaline to clear out the cobwebs. Sitting deeply in his chair, Zernov focuses on reading ahead in the report before the briefing starts. Maybe no one will notice him falling behind while he's still waking up. Lero steeples his fingers together and tells Perez to begin. Perez stands up. “After extensive searches, we found nothing of use at the Kopan base. This, in itself, is telling and lends credence to the XO’s suspicions regarding Kopan’s seeming preparedness. Raiders would not have scrubbed and destroyed e...