Anniversary of the Titanic disaster as well as the recent Italian cruise ship disaster got me thinking about an adventure seed that I wrote on a passenger liner called Titan being struck by fragments of a comet and basically being a SF adventure of the Titanic. So I did a bunch of searches and couldn't find it. Till I notice that searches for comet and titan were both turning up the 1000's of Sathar Agents thread: http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/3660 at any rate rather then resurrect the old thread I thought I'd simply dust of the Titan sections of that discussion. 1. The pirate or smuggler portions of that adventure could be reworked in that if this ship is truly crippled then a massive "Dunkirk" style rescue operation would be called for with every available ship responding to pull passengers off. (Give some reason why everyone just didn't take to the lifeboats- perhaps where the comet struck it took out 30% of the lifeboats). Among the responders is a thief/smuggler who docks with the ship and attempts to transship cargo but not allow passengers on board. 2. So the liner is HS20 and the only ship available with grapples is the frigate the Leo or the CMS Leo and a space fleet frigate . The shear mass of the titan is too much for these two ships to halt her progress on a course of death and destruction into a planet or the sun but they must try to buy some time hoping the jump tug called for makes it to the system in time. This means they latch onto the titan and red line their drives and they can't pursue and smugglers leaving that for the assault scouts. Any one want to speculate of the possibility of towing or altering course on a HS 20 ship by other ships with grapples?
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