I took a fresh look at the basic game book this morning and noticed a few things.<br /><br />1. the intro on the inside of the the front cover isn't all that bad for a intro for new players and why not we all read it and it hooked us?<br /><br />2. Page 1 says "Exciting Adventures on Alien Worlds" which is a connection to the original incarnation of the game as "Alien Worlds" since Volturnus is so well developed with flora and fauna I have to wonder if some of the creatures listed in the AD book were not developed by Schick and Cook themselves and simply got used for the Volturnus campaign.<br /><br />3. page 16 upper right hand column:<br />[quote=Basic Game] A special meeting of delegates from the United Planetary Federation Council on Frontier Law and Peace is being conducted on a nearby planet. Someone or something is murdering the delegates one by one. The players must find the murderers and prevent further assassinations. [/quote]<br /><br />Ok, so just what is the UPF Council on Frontier Law and Peace? the fact that the word peace is included suggests a very un-human like train of thought most like from dralasite or vrusk thinking it would seem to me.<br /><br />4. [quote=Basic Game] An abandoned alien city ship has entered the planetary system on a collision course wth a colonized planet. The characters must find the giant ship's control center and change its course before it hits the planet.[/quote]<br /><br />my first reaction to that was "dungeon crawl in space" kind of a cool idea, certainly great potential for mutliple adventures- the one suggested but then what if things begin to wake up and take issue with the PCs? then corporate interests show up and fight over the city-ship that would give you a KHs scenario to play out- the PCs are not on those ships but they randomly draw for sides and the actual winner is the side that nominally gains control of the city ship. Then for a final climatic event it turns out the ship poses a threat on a grand scale and it must either be destroyed or sent to jump randomly into void space. Perhaps this is the source of the technology to make the hull scrapers- players first encounter them here but latter the corporation that captured samples of them reverse engineers them. Then it turns out that its a hull scraper that is actually killing the delegates above at the conference which is actually held at a STar Play resort. Players begin to realise that they've seen this creature before. Its played off as a accident but the truth is that someone figured out how to control these creatures and they really did assassinate delegates.
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