Montca News 5: Painting the Imperium

I sort of want to go back to earlier Traveller when the Imperium was really a dark place and not necessarily the good guys. So - one more entry before the start of tonight's game!

Dateline: 355-1105, Preacep 0803 C22467B-A

In a stunning change from normal Imperial processes, Preacep has been placed under Imperial martial law. Its 21,000 inhabitants, previously unaffiliated with neither the Imperium nor the League, have been protesting at the class C starport. Our last report has rumors of the Ine Givar being active. It is reported that a small Imperial Navy task force is guarding the orbit and a single Marine squadron is maintaining the starport. 

Dateline 355-1105, Montca

Our daring ship trackers have managed to see the scrapped Adda Dubsar Kinunir-class ship in the General Products shipyard. It appears to not have been broken down as expected from the normal disposal of military grade ships. Photos show it and several other ships in what appear to be mothballed status as the crash investigation continues in Enris and near Concourse 17 of Montca Port. Two guards in a grav jeep chased off the daring duo.

And picking on Preacep since it is next to the League and as noted in one of the posts where I detail out this system, unaffiliated even though it is in Imperial borders. Wonder if all planets inside the borders are technically Imperial? Which this also implies that the port, a class C starport, is not actually an Imperial starport. Unless those marines and the Naval forces make it so somehow. Even threw in some Ine Givar!

There are a few more posts with Preacep in there, so I may have to adjust some tags. In the meanwhile, from my solo game a while back, here are the posts tagged correctly.

Next to the League, inside Imperial space, but not an Imperial system

And entirely unrelated to Traveller, still unemployed or early retirement. Though I had a 2nd interview with a company after apparently passing their technical interview. And I have another interview with another company in a couple days. I really want to work at least another few years and think I can do good things, but the software world is really changing fast. Even the thing to chase after a few months ago is now in the rear-view mirror for the next thing with AI and software development. It used to be a technology would show up, and mature over months and years. Now that has been cut to months. I have a lot of opinions on that, but this is the place for gaming. 

But as this sort of relates to Traveller - in the 3000 years that are between now and 1105 (if I got the dates right!) things have not changed as much as you would think. Of course, Traveller is really based on the pulp SF of the 40s, 50s & 60s and never really caught up with technology even in the date it was published. But it is really a framework for your own SF universe and can really do anything. Though if you break the speed of communication that changes the entire universe!