Basic Outline: Player Characters
are recruited to help a scientist defect from a
megacorp.
The Set Up:
:The team are
recruited on a world (or Way Station) in the Gagarin
Sector, by an agent in the pay of the government of
New Florida, to assist
Dr. Jiddah Hanian
to defect
from Chyn-Zavag Interworld Ltd., a smaller megacorp,
rooted in the Aldrin, Gagarin, and Ride Sectors.
Headquartered on a spinurb in the Jamal’s Luck system.
CZI is involved to one degree or another in the
production of a wide variety of consumer goods,
industrial equipment, transportation (including ground,
air, and space transportation), weapons, medicine, and
space construction.
The government of New Florida is unable to mount a rescue directly, but does need
someone discreet to assist Dr Hanian.
Arabella Underhill
sets out to
recruit the team, and get the comission on the Mcr2.5
fee. {Underhill is a registered Agent for
mercenaries, and industrial espionage operations, and
is listed in Jane’s Intelligence review twice (one is her
index listing, the other is an advertisement she bought
in the current issue).}
The Location:
CZI has built a spinworld to develop Dr.
Hanian’s project, and parked it in a most difficult place;
a Restricted system.
Freyda:
Freyda is Restricted because it was
settled by an eccentric religious group that forswore the use of
technology higher than TL4,
the Fischers
. The Fischers have a
planetary council that acts to manage their off-world
investments in annual meetings. The Council has
contracted CZI to provide planetary and system
defense. In exchange for this, CZI is allowed the
construction of one artificial world, kept well out of view
of the planet’s population.
Research 5
is a small ring,
10km in diameter by 3km in width. It is connected to a
large docking bay located at the center point of the
ring’s rotation by three spokes that house cargo and
passenger elevators. Spoke 1 is the primary passenger
elevator, although spokes 2 and 3 also have
passenger lifts.
[find equations for centrifugal force: how fast does the ring
spin to produce 1g at the interior surface?]
Two towns have been established to house
and entertain the 2600 workers on Research 5.
Central City
is located at the base
of spoke 1, and is home to the ring’s administration,
and home to most of the ring’s inhabitants. Most of the
people here work on the spinworld’s maintainence, or
maintain the automated system defense boats that are
operated from the ring.
Boondock
is located on the
opposite side of the ring from Central City, mid-way
between spokes 2 and 3. it is home to the 200
technicians and researchers that work in the labs,
located at the edge of Boondock
The labs
are located in a
cluster of five buildings, ssurrounded by a carefully
crafted screen of trees. From 500 meters away, the
closest approach of the official road, it looks like a small
patch of experimental forrest. One building houses the
offices of the lab administrator, and Dr. Hanian. Another
houses the technicians’ labs. The remaining three
house something of a mystery. Nobody from the
project will say anything about what goes on in the
three buildings.
Rumor says it is filled with strange
manipulations of non-terrestrial DNA, some spliced into
humans.
Other rumors say a crew of intelligent aliens
from a distant part of the galaxy, accidentally “washed
up” on our shores due to a wild misjump.
[The remaining three buildings are a creche
and dormitory for the subjects, and a school.]
Last modified December 16, 1998
