31 janvier 2008
Galactic Station Omega 138
Some ideas for a Final Frontier incarnation of Deep Space Nine or Babylon V
- Omega 138 is a former fish processing plant orbiting Haligonia (a cold ocean planet home to a race of warlike sharkmen)
- The sector is as the specialists say, in their technical lingo, in the middle of nowhere
- Due to recent borders variations, Haligonia suddenly became the intersection of the UWA, Ralthahix Confederation and Telk Principle borders.
- Well aware of the newfound strategic value of the planet, the Galactic Rangers stroke a deal with the Haligonians to make the old factory a diplomatic outpost.
- In the pilot of this Omega 138 spin-off of Final Frontier our heroes arrive of the station, still under renovation and stinking rotten fish, to assume its command together with their colleagues of the Haligonian Maritime Gendarmery (as part of the deal, the leadership of the station is to be shared between the UWA and Haligonia)
- A few hours later, the Ralthahix and Telk diplomatic missions arrive
- While all those people are settling, the sensors of the station pick up a forming continuic resoning protonic singularity that, after 90 minutes of action, mystery and diplomacy, will turn out to be a gateway to the Zero Continuum...
Galactic Messengers
This service, similar but independent from the Rangers, handles rapid distribution of sensitive information or packages trough the UWA...
28 janvier 2008
A.E.S. Jacques Chirac
Crest of the A.E.S. Jacques Chirac, named after the French politician, man of peace, ambassador of the anti-apartheid movement, defender of the poor; he mysteriously disapeared in South Africa at the end of his last mandate.
A.E.S. Tintin
Crest of the A.E.S (Appareil d'Exploration Spatiale, i.e. Space Exploration Craft) Tintin, named after the famous Belgian fictional adventurer and journalist; this is a fairly recent craft as only the vanishing of planet Earth, and subsequently of the Moulinsart lobby, allowed the A.M.U (Alliance des Mondes Unis, i.e. United Worlds Alliance) to name a craft after the comic hero without ruining itself with royalties.
27 janvier 2008
Galactic Rangers
This is non-Traveller material!
Final Frontier (French) is a French indie game set in a parodic version of Star Trek... The players are the (intrepid) men, women and assorted aliens of a Galactic Explorer. The "Character Classes" are Captain, Pilot, Security Officer, Engineering Officer, Science Officer, Medical Officer and Academy Cadet. They were colored pyjamas : green for the "line branch" (captain & pilot), red for the security personnel, blue for the medical & science guys and yellow for engineers.
Here are two takes at their rank: a pretty kitsch "TOS" one and, a "TNS" for you ex-Vampire players who can't wear anything but black!
- Lines, i.e. "branches":
- "Line"
- Security
- Science & medical
- Engineering
- Rows, i.e. ranks:
- Ranger Recruit
- Ranger
- Chief Ranger
- Chief of Staff (kind of a Final Frontier version of a Master-at-Arms/Coxswain/Chief Boatswain's Mate; only one on board; always part of the "line" branch)
- Cadet ("branch" based on his academic major)
- Ensign (i.e. NPC officer)
- Lieutenant (i.e. PC officer)
- Executive Officer (only one at board; PC; wears two hats: XO and either pilot, physician, security officer, science officer or engineer; "branch" based on that second hat)
- Captain
- Admiral