Security There are 9 levels of security, ranging from the passengers (a) to the Captain and a few other top-level officers of the ship. There are no physical keys, all doors use print plates. When entering the King Richard, biometric information is collected for access. The primary computer system tracks all prints and interfaces with port systems to keep up to date on criminal prints and data. Additionally, there are unobtrusive camera systems in all public areas, as well as obvious and hidden security monitors in highly sensitive areas.
Per book: Number of people - role - security level - notes
1 - Captain - 9
1 - Navigator - 8
3 - pilots - 8 - these men also pilot the shuttles
10 Deck Officers - 8 - normal watch standers
1 - Security officer - 9
10 - Security staff members - 8 - 6 men stand 4/8 watches on the bridge. The other 4 have standard round and special tasks.
1 - Chief Medical Officer - 9
4 - Medical Assitants - 8
1 - Chief Engineer - 9
1 - First assistant Engineer - 8
4 - Drive Engineers - 7
4 - Level 2 Engineers - 6
6 - Level 3 Engineers - 5
65 - Stewards - 3 - room stewards
10 - Administrative personnel - 3,4 - This includes pursers, activity directors and others.
60 - Workers - 2 - included in this section are hostesses, gaming table supervisors, and regular maintenance people. Some members of this group may have limited higher level clearances
While I did not see any specific security offices on the deck plans, we can make a stateroom per deck perhaps used as a discreet security station.
Accessing the computer systems will be very complicated, and depending on the characters and how they roll up, we may have to bring in a specialized NPC if they want to go that route.
I can see several options for this part of the adventure. I think there will be at least 4 players, perhaps more (although 2 may not be able to show up for health reasons sadly). Passengers are a good possibility, depending on the patron, the could be part of the security team or another part of the crew. It is unlikely to be a gun fight as there is nowhere to go when you are in jump space. The key is getting the coordinate device from the SolSec agent, preferably without her knowing it. If theplayers think things through ahead of time (and don't read this blog until after the fact which is likely as few actually read my little notes here unless I point them to it for the game recaps), they may see about getting a facsimile of the device ahead of time. If they don't, I may have the patron supply one.
For those players who may not be able to make all the games, they could be crew of one of the 2 support vessels, bringing us to:
Support Vessels
The King Richard is supported by 2 Morningstar ships, 2500dT fighting vessels that also carry 2 attack shuttles each. These potent ships are primarily armed with a large selections of missiles but also have powerful laser turrets as well.
See - I knew I could work in some of even the larger ships from 0-Hr! And some of the shuttle minis will work fine as attack shuttles sort of.
Finally, we will need the patron for this. Who is doing this and why? With the assumption that the players are going to play Imperial citizens (or ex-military mustering out on Strand), I'll probably go with some semi-clandestine Imperial group that wants to see what is going on. Some anti-SolSec group or something like that. Hopefully one of the connections the players makes during chargen will aid me in getting that going. I will need to come up with something, along with just how much they will make, this weekend!
And I've decided to add the Big Wreck tag to all the blogs that relate to this game. So we can find them later.
Finally, in reading the Transstar News blog, this entry has some Solomani political parties. So along with the movie posters from Another Traveller Blog, I am using what people put out there - that's why they put it out there! So picking one of those parties may help me come up with some Imperial agency that would have a vested interest in keeping an eye on them. And have that knowledge of our Ms. Zandra Morrows.
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