God had the right idea
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gridloreThe long-delayed Lunion Subsector project is finally moving again. Writing Trojan Reach burned me out on world generation for a bit.
Lunion has about 35 worlds in it, and since I'm using GURPS Traveller: First In to do the worlds, each one requires a lot of work.. And this is just for the main worlds! I'm planning to go back through a do the fiddly bits for each secondary planet in each system.
Then I'm going to do write-ups on the society, cultures, defenses, notable personalties, the Storuden Cup Rollerball Tournament, etc..
This isn't for publication (partially because it goes against a great deal of Traveller "canon,") it's a labor of love. I'll end up putting it all on my website when I'm done. It's nice to write Traveller without having a deadline or editorial opinion hanging over my head.
A couple of interesting places:
A world much like Heinlein's Venus.. hot and wet. I've decided that this world eats colonies.. they just vanish, or fail. Now a new effort is underway...
A world where they are rabidly xenophobic, but also conditioned to be pacifists. Foreigners simply do not exist. Any contact is brief and unpleasant.
A gas giant moon, whose parent planet orbits 46 AU from its bloated red giant star (M6 iii). Because of the giant star's influence, the closet ships can get in faster-than-light drive is 208 AU. Very few bother to travel all the way into the system, and the colony has turned inward, making do with what they have.
And a cold hell of ammonia winds and caustic rains. 12 states compete for resources, each under a ruthless dictator.
So far, so good!
Lunion has about 35 worlds in it, and since I'm using GURPS Traveller: First In to do the worlds, each one requires a lot of work.. And this is just for the main worlds! I'm planning to go back through a do the fiddly bits for each secondary planet in each system.
Then I'm going to do write-ups on the society, cultures, defenses, notable personalties, the Storuden Cup Rollerball Tournament, etc..
This isn't for publication (partially because it goes against a great deal of Traveller "canon,") it's a labor of love. I'll end up putting it all on my website when I'm done. It's nice to write Traveller without having a deadline or editorial opinion hanging over my head.
A couple of interesting places:
A world much like Heinlein's Venus.. hot and wet. I've decided that this world eats colonies.. they just vanish, or fail. Now a new effort is underway...
A world where they are rabidly xenophobic, but also conditioned to be pacifists. Foreigners simply do not exist. Any contact is brief and unpleasant.
A gas giant moon, whose parent planet orbits 46 AU from its bloated red giant star (M6 iii). Because of the giant star's influence, the closet ships can get in faster-than-light drive is 208 AU. Very few bother to travel all the way into the system, and the colony has turned inward, making do with what they have.
And a cold hell of ammonia winds and caustic rains. 12 states compete for resources, each under a ruthless dictator.
So far, so good!
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Re: Lunion Cover
Date: 8 Nov 2002 08:30 (UTC)And who are you, BTW?
Re: Lunion Cover
Date: 9 Nov 2002 01:33 (UTC)This was something I did for aprilfool this year.
(And also posted at the TML)
Aprilfool 2002 (http://zho.berka.com/aprilfool2002.html) ;-)
/BeRKA
Re: Lunion Cover
Re: Lunion Cover
Date: 10 Nov 2002 04:46 (UTC)I am sorry, that I don't have anything better.
I also got this at my site.
Lunion Subsector (http://zho.berka.com/data/CLASSIC/subsector.pl?subsector=LUNION.DAT&realsubnameY=Lunion§or=SPINMAR&subsectorletter=K) from galactic.