Adventure Seed - Ark of Hope

Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 23:48:00 +0800
From: pd82495@wapol.gov.au (Michael Bailey)
Subject: Adventure Seed - Ark of Hope

Adventure Seed:  Ark of Hope
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Players' Information :-


Xmission Date:	04/12/5720
Xmission Orig:	CEF HQ Aquitaine
Auth. Code   :  Lima Zero Zero Blue One

EYES ONLY  EYES ONLY  EYES ONLY

To           :	Commanding Officer,
		CEF Contact & Liason Team
		Mirabilis

>From         :	Colonel Kristian Hauptmann
		CO, Contact & Liason Regiment
                Commonwealth Expeditionary Force

Refer your xmission 25/11/5720.  We concur that incoming
craft is most likely sub-light colony ship launched from
Terra in mid 21st Century.

The colonists carry with them tools, materiel and know-
ledge necessary for TL 8 to 10 industrial production.  In
Mirabilis' current context, this is of extreme importance.
The nation that allies with the colonists will, in a short
space of time, dominate the planet.

Given your current mission on Mirabilis, it is vital to
Commonwealth interests that the colonists ally with the 
Republic of Varangia.  Your orders are to do everything
possible to create such an alliance.

Note that current combat and engagement restrictions still
apply.

Xmission ends...


The characters are members of the Near Bootes Commonwealth 
Expeditionary Force, part of a Contact and Liason team on
Mirabilis.  Mirabilis is like many habitable worlds after 
the Virus struck - struggling to maintain a TL 4 economy,
and fragmented into a number of nation-states.

Your C&L team has estsablished relations with the Republic
of Varangia, a (relatively) progressive and democratic 
nation on Mirabilis' eastern land mass.  Varangia is the
nation most likely to countenance Mirabilis' eventual 
incorporation into the Commonwealth.  Your team's ultimate
goal is to bring Varangia into a position of political 
dominance on the planet.

Two months ago, Varangian astronbomers discovered an
unknown object on a hyperbolic course towards the inner
system.  The object was decelerating.  Despite the 
absence of much historical data, Varangian researchers
were able to identify the craft as a Terran colony ship,
launched before Terrans discovered the jump drive in
AD 2089.

Unfortunately for Varangia, unfriendly agents have 
passed this information on to their governments.  Now,
the race is on strike up an alliance.  Rival governments
will stop at nothing to win this race - the stakes are
high.

Referee's Information :-
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The ship in question is the UNCS "New South Wales", 
launched in AD 2047 by the United Nations Repatriation
and Relocation Agency.  The ship is home to twenty 
thousand colonists in low berths.  Crew is rotated 
amongst the colonists.

The colonists were fleeing one of the most turbulent
periods of Terran history.  Many are political 
dissadents and malcontents escaping repressive regimes, 
others are refugees from war zones.  At any rate, they
are a mixed bunch, and are likely to be as fragmented
as the people of Mirabilis.

Between the Mirabilans and the colonists, the stage is
set for double-dealing, betrayal and intrigue on a 
grand scale.  When so much is at stake, the potential
for a healthy dose of violence can't be ignored either.

The Near Bootes Commonwealth is my own campaign setting,
for the Reformation Coalition or another pocket empire, 
use any habitable world near the empire's borders.  For
added effect, have a rival empire doing the same thing
for one of Varangia's rivals.

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Cmdr Michael T. Bailey
Task Force Zulu
Commonwealth Expeditionary Force

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