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Nemesis Campaign
procyon:
This campaign was something I put together for my wife, oldest son, oldest daughter, and middle son. It was based on slightly modified Starfire Ultra rules as the oldest boy had just gotten them and wanted to try them out. It is currently on turn 91. This is part of the opening of it that was considered to be part of the pre-turn 1 game. We decided to game out some of the background to get used to the rules. If folks are interested in reading it I will try to write up the old turns as I get the chance.
As background, it is based on Earth with the pre turn part taking place in the final months of 2202. Earth is divided into three major power blocks. The Pan European Consortium (my wife) which includes all of Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East is the first. The second is the United States Space Association and Holdings (my oldest son) which includes all of North America, Brazil, and Japan. The last major power is the Chinese Socialist Republic (my middle son) comprising most of eastern Aisa and the south Pacific. A last power of only about half the economic influence of the others is the South Seas Free Space Consortium (my oldest daughter) which includes some of South America, Southern Africa, India, and Australia.
There are colonies on Mercury (Pan Euro), the moon (Pan Euro), Mars (US Space), Ceres (O2m in the AB - China), and small colonies scattered in the asteriod belt for the Pan Euro and US Space.
The drive in use is the charged particle drive, which is a reaction drive and can only change speed by one per round - and has a safe cruising speed of one. The weapons available are sprint missiles (only China), 'long range' missiles, and lasers. The Pan Euro is EL1, the others are all Ind2. China is SL2 in construction, US Space is SL1 in Electronics and SL2 in Lasers. Warp points are unknown with science instruments only for planetary survey. Missiles can be used in a "conventional" sense or nuclear, which will be revealed in the stories. Conventional use scored normal damage vs the non drive field Cp drive, while nukes score the x3 damage of ultra vs non drive field targets.
Prior to the beginning of the game no colonization beyond the asteriod belt was allowed per the Treaty of L2 in 2153. All space born weapon use was forbidden withing 15LS of Earth (the Pax Terra), and each major power block was allowed 2 armed ground installation on earth. No other space borne weapon use was to be allowed within 5LS of any other habitat although space stations were permitted to be armed within that radius for protection of the population against any violations of the treaty. Civilian smuggling and piracy is not unknown (although it is usually funded by one of the power blocks).
With the beginning of 2203, the Treaty of L2 will lapse and the battle for the outer system will begin. All the power blocks know that four of Jupiter's moons are colonizable - with Calisto being particularly so as it is outside of the radiation belts (considered a mT). In Jupiter's orbit, at its lagrange points, are also the Trojan's - a second asteroid belt of thinner composition but valuable none the less. Everyone is well aware that control of the Jovian orbit is the gateway to the outer system....
ZimRathbone:
Interesting startup - I'd certainly like to see the turn reports
procyon:
Having a slight problem at the moment. It logs me off faster than I can type in the info. Maybe five minutes at best. Not sure how to attach a file or to get around this. Suggestions???
Hawkeye:
Well, I usually type longer posts in notepad and copy/paste them into the text window. Not sure this will work for an AAR or story though as there will probably be some editing to do.
Also, if this is due to the line being cut (my router will disconnect me if there is no traffic for 30 seconds, I have a download manager running at the slowest speed setting DLing a file, I uploaded to rapidshare, just to keep the connection (yes I know, I could reconfiger the router, but I am one laaaazy guy
Erik L:
This is a test post.
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