Since I'm playing in a campaign going through the old Volturnus modules, it reminded me how awesome they were (for their time). The battle of Volturnus was a big highlight of my early gaming years. <span style="line-height: 1.3">But now that I have so many years of gaming under my belt, I can't help but see wheels within wheels...</span><div><span style="line-height: 1.3"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.3">Assuming the players beat off the Sathar invasion fleet, the Eorna discover a huge cache of eggs in an abandoned orbiter. Doesn't that seem a little too convenient? I mean seriously... the Sathar had a fleet in orbit a just few hours ago! If the orbiter was already there, wouldn't it have been noticed before by the Eorna, the pirates, or the prior explorer missions?</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.3"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.3">Ideas:</span></div><div><ol><li><span style="line-height: 1.3">Sathar love messing around with genetics. What would they have done to Eorna eggs? Would they be subtle and leave some mental backdoors? Or would they be cruel and add some new "features" to their children?</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.3">How long thinking are their plans? They could add a hidden kill-switch trigger to wipe the whole race after enough time had passed for the selfish-DNA to be shared through the whole gene pool.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.3">Sathar love causing trouble and suspicion. The Sathar could later reveal that they left those eggs there intentionally. Since the Eorna are the parents of Volturnus, the Frontier races would never trust the Volturnus races?</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.3">Alternately, depending on your campaign, maybe this is a hint into Sathar psychology. They intentionally left pure viable eggs because they had been beaten? What does that mean? Why would they do that?</span></li></ol><div>Fun? Other ideas?</div></div>
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