The Oncoming Storm
An adventure for Traveller
Location:
Highbury (Foreven/Titan 0106) 0926 B566879-9
Ri (PBG)203
Patron: Colonel
Sandovar Fasola, military intelligence officer of Caxburgh, one of the major
states of Highbury
Required skills
and equipment: none
Players
Information:
Highbury's two main land masses are
separated by fairly wide oceans, except at one point, known as the Channel. In
this narrow passage (32 km at nearest point) is found the chain of islands that
make up the country of Glostonburgh, home to 2400 souls. Glostonburgh’s economy
is based on fishing, and they export fish and aquaculture goods to nations on
both continents.
Caxburgh (103 million) on one
continent and Breedony (86 million) on the other are gearing up towards a war.
Glostonburgh is officially neutral but both sides have a reason to desire control
the islands; the largest island has an excellent harbor, and the islands can serve
as staging grounds for invading the other country.
Colonel Fasola wants the PCs to
investigate the island, looking for military activity by the other side, to use
as a pretext and justification for their own occupation. He’s using
off-worlders to minimize risk of being recognized as spies. They are given a
special military comm channel which can be utilized by their own comms, and two
weeks in which to discover any military ships, planes or vehicles, any
uniformed soldiers, or other evidence that Breedony has already violated the
neutrality. They will have to provide tangible evidence for the Colonel to take
to the high command, preferably visual recordings.
The PCs will be given a cover
identity as off-world journalists there to investigate the local aquaculture.
They can use this guise or create one of their own. They can use their own
contra-grav craft if they have one, or Fasola will arrange for one to be
available. At the end of two weeks, the PCs should return, with whatever
intelligence they’ve been able to gather. Pay can be negotiated based upon PC’s
military background and social skills.
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