[OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

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Planning for and discussion of the game "Voyage of the Starship 'Fritjof Nansen'"

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[OOC] The Starship 'Fritjof Nansen'

Agemegos 10 Oct 2013 22:33

The Voyage of the Starship Fridtjof Nansen

Here we come, ready or not!

The Voyage of 'INS Fridtjof Nansen' could manage, but does not need, one more character-player.

Premise

Forty years after the end of fifty years of ruinous and exhausting "Formation Wars", the Eichberger Foundation — now called “The Empire” — has recovered and rebuilt enough to start returning to the hinterland beyond 60 light-years from Sol. There are a lot of colonies out there: six hundred, of which fewer than two hundred have been explored at all since the destruction of Earth. The Empire has commercial, naval, and humanitarian interests in the Beyond; obviously the first step is a quick survey to find out what's out there in the way of problems and opportunities.

A preliminary attempt by the Imperial Navy to conduct such as survey without professional diplomatic skills and expert social and political advisors ended in tears, wars, progroms, and a suicide.

So now the Navy, the Imperial Office, and the Colonial Office have combined their efforts to produce Survey, an ambitious program in which 24 specially-constructed starships under naval command will explore six hundred worlds in ten years. Each Survey frigate is operated by the Imperial Navy and carries a big stick of sorts, but it also carries a small diplomatic mission from the Imperial Office, a team of multi-disciplinary explorer/scientists mostly recruited from the colonies and commissioned by the Colonial Office, and a few marines in case of emergency. It's not half an administrative headache.

INS Fridtjof Nansen is one of the Survey frigates, heading out into the Black to visit a list of worlds where people have indeed been before, but no-one knows what they have been up to for the last three or four centuries.

Genre

Serial rationalised planetary romance with a pinch of rationalised space opera.

Setting

Flat Black, a star-spanning dystopia optimised for rationalised planetary romances and a dark and cynical tone.

Reference page

‘Voyages of the Starship Fridtjof Nansen’ wiki.

Characters

The four players, each taking several parts, will play the three senior officers who decide policy, the three diplomats, a coterie of three among the explorers, three key officers in fighting the ship, and three of the 'action' team of Imperial Marines commandos.

Participants

Agemegos : GM

Green-Neck

• Sblt Hernando Vajra ("Astronomer" (gunnery officer))
• a diplomat, role and name to be determined
• Prof. ??? ??? (Dean of Survey)
• Dr. ??? ??? (field researcher, speciality to be determined)
• Pvte Hansruedi Fleischer (Imperial Marines commando)

Jeff Murrell

• Captain Lowell (Mission Commander)
• a diplomat, role and name to be determined
• Dr Joshua Rabin (Social Anthropologist)
• Pvte Dimitri Feodorevich "Bear" Karapyetchenko (Imperial Marines commando)

Sirpudding

• Lt-Cmdr Tomiko Eichberger (Chief Engineer)
• His Excellency Elumide Cho (Ambassador At Large)
• Lt Kim Strickland (Military Intelligence)
• Cpl Brent "Bucky" McAdams (Marines detachment leader)

System

• GURPS
• GURPS Spaceships 1, 3, & 5
• GURPS Low-Tech
• GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1
• GURPS Low-Tech Companion 3
• GURPS High-Tech
• GURPS Ultra-Tech
• GURPS Bio-Tech
• GURPS Space

Schedule

Two turns per week, as follows.

• GM posts: 1400 UTC Monday
• Deadline for character posts: 1400 UTC Wednesday
• GM posts: 1400 UTC Thursday
• Deadline for character posts: 1400 UTC Saturday

Last edited on 14 Feb 2014 00:06 by Agemegos Show more

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

Agemegos 12 Oct 2013 11:36

Okey-doke, folks!

I've removed all the reference material that was in this thread to the new “Voyages of the Starship ‘INS Fridtjof Nansen’” wiki, where it ought to be a lot easier to find and refer to. That includes having transferred the little briefs on characters from the SJGames forum thread each to its own little page, which you can edit.

And that leaves this thread clear for chit-chat and discussions of the game.

I set up a “characters” page for each of you, which is linked and transcluded here. If you want to add a character, go to your own character page and edit it to include the character's surname enclosed in triple square brackets like this: [[[Smithson]]]. Save that page; you ought to find a that the surname appears as a red link. Click on the red link, then click on "create the page". You ought to be offered a choice of templates. Choose the "player character" one, and the page edit window ought to open with the basic mark-up already in it.

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Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

sirpudding 15 Oct 2013 09:08

So Kim's grand tour trip, how does that interact with the way Seeonee lodges work? Her lodge paid for it?

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

Agemegos 15 Oct 2013 21:30

Could be. Or her parents paid for it. Or she saved up her allowance. Won a lottery or a prize in some sort of contest. Maybe worked her passage.

Last edited on 15 Oct 2013 21:32 by Agemegos Show more

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

Agemegos 15 Oct 2013 21:40

These threads don't divide themselves into pages, and I don't see a way of jumping to the first un-read post. That might be awkward. Do you think that having a separate IC thread for each adventure will be sufficient?

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

sirpudding 16 Oct 2013 06:03

These threads don't divide themselves into pages, and I don't see a way of jumping to the first un-read post.

Isn't that what the "jump" button on the index page does?

Do you think that having a separate IC thread for each adventure will be sufficient?

Seems like a very tidy way to do organize it, and it's your wiki.

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

Agemegos 16 Oct 2013 08:56

Woohoo! It seems to! Isn't that convenient?

Why did I not notice that before?

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

Tobias Gohrbandt 18 Oct 2013 14:31

Well, I got here, too, finally. As expected I was a bit swamped this month, with a lingering cold on top, which is why I was rather silent till now. I'm counting on all your magnanimousness for this delay. :)

That said, and without too much in the way of lamentations, I intend to get down on my characters this sunday (meaning: I hope to get them more or less done). Further down on this page, but older, are a few files apparently meant for character creation. However, the characters already posted for this campaign don't have sheets. Does this mean I can forget about statting up the characters in detail? I wouldn't have a problem with that at all. iirc, in the SJG thread, there was mention of using Gurps, but I'm not that clear right now whether this includes sheets.

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

Agemegos 18 Oct 2013 22:30

Splendid! Magnanimity abounds.

Unfortunately I have been incapacitated by visits from family and by a bout of depression since the last week of September, and I haven't been able to produce even routine output, let alone the vivid world society descriptions that the players need as homeworlds for their non-Impie PCs. The usual course for these episodes is eight to twelve weeks, so though I will try I can't promise a start any time soon.

The characters for this campaign don't have any character sheets yet because I believe firmly in designing before one builds. ONce everyone is satisfied about what characters are to be described in game mechanics, then we will start to use game mechanics.

I think that our previous commitment to using GURPS still stands. I certainly don't feel up to hacking together a version of FATE or Gumshoe to use instead.

Last edited on 18 Oct 2013 22:34 by Agemegos Show more

Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fridtjof Nansen'

Tobias Gohrbandt 19 Oct 2013 08:02

Very well. My best wishes go without saying; I'll concentrate on descriptive, uhm, descriptions, secure in the knowledge of not being that far behind.

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