Montca News
Dateline: 350-1105
A small shipping shuttle crashed near Pad 17. Witnesses from O'Leary's O'Lasers say the shuttle started to wobble in its flight path about 200 meters from the ground. It spiraled and crashed moments later. Fortunately, the fires were minimal due to our low air pressure. The pilot suffered a broken arm and 2 broken ribs from the crash, but all cargo was lost. The rescue shuttle was on the scene within 5 minutes of the downed craft.
The official SPA Safety Board is still investigating, but initial results appear to put the General Products Linear-M maneuver drives losing power due to an overloaded circuit. The shuttle is owned by Sweet-Carrol Lines. Pilot Kane Howe is currently at Waygin Hospital undergoing medical attention and is expected to do a full recovery in a few days with MedStar's bone regeneration system.
Further updates will be available as the story develops.
Game Notes
Over on COTI a few people are doing news stories to help move their game along, some fluff, some world building, and I assume a few game hooks in there. This encouraged me to do the same, but we'll see how long I can keep this up.
The shuttle crash came from the Party Backstory Generator. Yes, it is a fantasy supplement, so I just translated the fantasy part to fit into the Traveller game. And somewhere I know I set up the Krim has some TL-G level medical stuff but heck if I can find it now!
The shuttles are from Ryan Wolf's 0Hr stuff and dropped into AI. Not something I like to do but I have those shuttles in minis as well as the pictures and deck plans and want to use them. The ports in the League, as mentioned in a few blog posts, are based on his Port Leonis maps and images.
Finally, the Sweet-Carrol Lines comes from the BITS 101 Corporations. I have that in hard copy interestingly enough - they put out a lot of really good things. But see - I am using my toys!
And the O'Leary's O'Lasers is a small port restaurant, now located on the Gate 17 Concourse. Again, from the Backstory Generator, so that 2 of the players own this. But it is a franchise that is barely breaking even, so they may want to go ahead and sell. I do not want to tie them down, but it is a way 2 of them know each other. And the crash was witnessed from here by the other players so that they all have something in common.
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