What follows are not fully fleshed-out adventures ready to be used, they are a log of an old campaign. They are presented here as a possible source of ideas ... During the Fifth Frontier War the player characters (junior Imperial Navy officers and/or NCOs) were assigned to an Irregular Operations team in the Imperial 214th Fleet. The 214th Fleet was stationed at Glisten but as the war progressed it moves up to attack the Sword Worlds rimward flank. Irregular Operations includes fleet security patrols, search and rescue missions, courier duty, extraction of intelligence operatives, and anything else the referee can think of ... Basically it is the "Odd-job squad". The player characters were billeted aboard the Warwamo, a 50,000 dton Ghalalk class Armoured Cruiser (squadron flagship of CruRon 501). Their chain of command starts with Lieutenant Thur Minka, to Intelligence Officer Eric Thorn, ship Captain Lydia Zeromski, Squadron Commander Westheim, and finally Fleet Admiral Româo. A number of 'dummy' missions were run to get the players used to their situation and to get them to think of the Warwamo as home. Sound effects and soundtracks were used (as suggested in DGP's Digest 17). "The Imperial March" from The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack indicated the fleet was present, and the players were familiarised with a 'General Quarters' alarm, 'Red Alert' alarm, and 'Decompression Warning' alarm. Additionally, the first 64 seconds of "Prologue" from the Evil Dead 3 (Army of Darkness) soundtrack was used as a starting theme to a Traveller gaming session, and "Manly Men" from the same album became the ending theme to a Traveller gaming session. |