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[Rainbow Six]

Afternoon chaps,

A few suggestions / comments (sorry, slightly late to this thread)

1. The People Smuggler NPC Contact

An interesting character / contact for players might be a German criminal / black marketeer living along the border of the Dead Zone who makes a healthy living smuggling people/ items in to (and out of) France in exchange for payment (in the Year 2000 such payment is more likely to take the form of gold, jewelery, or barter goods rather than cash obviously). Such a character is likely to have connections with the DGSE, German BND, and perhaps American Intelligence (CIA or DIA). He (or she) would command a band of criminals / smugglers, some of whom may have had experience of crossing the Inner German Border (I think there is a German term called Grenzganger which originates in Cold War times, and refers to such people).


2. French interference in British affairs

Everything that Marc said to Catalonia could equally apply to parts of the British Isles that have declared their independence from the British Government. As I've mentioned before, in my T2K World I have an independent Scotland joining the Franco Belgian Union, with French troops and aircraft subsequently being stationed in Scotland; HMG are furious about this but realistically are unable to do anything (except vent their anger at the French Ambassador to the UK). Additionally, I'd imagine various DGSE cells active in the UK, some providing extremely covert support to various marauder groups, with the goal of keeping the UK Government too destabilised to interfere in French expansion plans.


3 Recovering the National Treasure seed, in this case The Honours of Scotland (basically a Scottish version of the Black Madonna)

The Honours of Scotland are also known as the Scottish Crown Jewels, and are normally kept in Edinburgh Castle. Any faction wishing to claim to be the legitimate Government of Scotland would have its cause boosted significantly if it possessed the Honours of Scotland

In this scenario, the Honours were removed from the Castle by a detachment of Scots Guards in the days immediately before the nuclear attack on the UK and hidden in a remote location somewhere in Scotland (my option is Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye, but they could just as easily be down a coal mine somewhere). The Guards were attacked by marauders on their way back to Government controlled territory, and most of those who knew the location of the hiding place were killed in the nuclear attack or the chaos that followed.

A survivor of the original Guards detachment has just been found, and the Scottish Government is launching a mission to recover the Honours.

However, an MI5 spy in the Scottish Government has alerted HMG, who are also sending a team to recover the Honours, as they feel that possessing them would enhance their claim that Scotland was still part of the UK.

Unknown to the Scots, the French also have the information, and have a DGSE team also looking for the Honours for their own purposes if an additional twist is required.

(If the GM wishes, with a few tweaks the Honours of Scotland can be replaced with the British Crown Jewels).

[Badbru]

Welcome on board Slappy

Seconded. Welcome Slappy.

You ruled out the idea of territorial conquest. I disagree.

Actually, no I didn't. I merely can't see the reason for expanding further beyond a geographical feature like a major river when you expanded towards that feature in the first place so that you could stay safe and secure behind it. I cannot see the point of territorial conquest north and east of the Rhine. I do not rule out territorial conquest for France however. The very move to the Rhine was territorial conquest,-to establish a strong geographical border. Furthermore RDF Sourcebook suggests that France is expanding their influence in the Iran-Iraq region (Gulf states,yes) Further I would have them reasserting their former African empire from Algeria right around the West coast of Africa to Cameroon and beyond. Would the Diamond trade in the Congo still be valued in the T2K world Franco Belgian Union don't forget.

France may not look at Germany for strict territorial expension but it could very well hope to form some kind of federation with several Landers (especially the non-catholic ones). Germany still retain several valuable mineral ressources.

By "Landers" do you mean Belgium & Netherlands etc And, Germany's valuable mineral resources would be greatly coveted, by Germany.

Moreover, France would need some kind of safe route to Poland.

"Like", maybe, "want" I could even see, but "need" I'm less convinced that they would "need" a safe route to Poland, and would it have to be a land route, passing through Germany

After all, the Polish community of France is really important (my ex-wife family is still sending present there every year and that is more a rule than anything else to Poles) and among our major politician's names are the Poniatovskis. Among their ancestors you'll find the last king of Poland, and the Marshall Josef Poniatovski (1st Empire). I also just realized that another major french politician family is of major Polish descent (Kosciusco-Morizet). One of their ancestor is Tadeus Kosciuszko (a Polish and American hero from the war of independence and from the Polish uprising of 1794: directed against Russia). With Poland in such terrible situation (and all other contenders virtually gone) I would not be surprised to see the French attempting to create some new Polish states (such as the Duchy of Warsaw). And if you want to add some history to that one of our king had been king of Poland. Actually, in a T2K Poland, France hold many Polish symbols that could be as important as the Black Madona.

[rcaf_777]

Here I adventure I am working on about a recovery of a Liberty Ship

[Mohoender]

Seconded. Welcome Slappy.

Actually, no I didn't. I merely can't see the reason for expanding further beyond a geographical feature like a major river when you expanded towards that feature in the first place so that you could stay safe and secure behind it. I cannot see the point of territorial conquest north and east of the Rhine. I do not rule out territorial conquest for France however. The very move to the Rhine was territorial conquest,-to establish a strong geographical border. Furthermore RDF Sourcebook suggests that France is expanding their influence in the Iran-Iraq region (Gulf states,yes) Further I would have them reasserting their former African empire from Algeria right around the West coast of Africa to Cameroon and beyond. Would the Diamond trade in the Congo still be valued in the T2K world Franco Belgian Union don't forget.

I misunderstood you, sorry. I disagree entirely with the RDF book and see this to be more than unrealistic. An alliance with EAU and Oman is likely but that's it. IMO the suez canal is closed. For Algeria, not a Chance! (too painful for the French). Moreover, I expect France to be at war with Algeria, Algerian conducting an active piracy similar to that existing today in Somalia. However, they would possibly build a type of commonwealth including Morocco (if it survived), Tunisia (almost sure), Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon, Madagascar...

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By "Landers" do you mean Belgium & Netherlands etc And, Germany's valuable mineral resources would be greatly coveted, by Germany.
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I shouldn't have put an "s" to this. I simply mean the L$nder of Germany (Saxony, Westphalia...). For the ressources part will be coveted by Germany I'm sure but large part of Germany are unproperly protected. I'm not saying that this will be an easy task for the French. On this matter, possibilities are almost endless. As Marc said it's open to a scenaria and it will depend on how well this operation is conducted. Don't forget that France and Germany have been collaborating a lot and the French involvement doesn't have to be an invasion.

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"Like", maybe, "want" I could even see, but "need" I'm less convinced that they would "need" a safe route to Poland, and would it have to be a land route, passing through Germany[/QUOTE]

They might not want it and leave Poland alone of course. However, if they start thinking of it, it will be a land route and air corridor going through Germany. There is no other choice as a sea route appears to be less reliable (IMO).

[Marc]

Afternoon chaps,

A few suggestions / comments (sorry, slightly late to this thread)

It's not late, Rainbow. And nice seeds! I'm enjoying this thread. Keep them coming! I've found here some good ideas for possible future games.

[Marc]

Here I adventure I am working on about a recovery of a Liberty Ship

Your adventure has aroused my curiosity about the Liberty Ships. I've post some deckplans I've found interesting in the "About maps..." thread. Perhaps you will find them useful four your adventure.

[jturfitt]

Liberty ships

I don't if they are still there, but back in the late 70s when I was working as a deckhand on towboats there were a couple of dozen of them mothballed at Corpus Christi, TX.

[Marc]

I don't if they are still there, but back in the late 70s when I was working as a deckhand on towboats there were a couple of dozen of them mothballed at Corpus Christi, TX.

It seems that some of them could be doing their last service:

pwd_br_v3400_0423.pdf

[Marc]

Adventure/Campaign seed

Mail Delivery Service.

Here's another idea for this thread. This seed could be useful as a campaign or as an adventure idea and can be easily situated in any part of the Twilight world, with independence of the timeline used. The playing characters, some of theme with military experience, have constituted a kind of association for the delivery of messages and packets for a pay. And they live for what they manage to get from this work. The name of the company could be something similar to "Anderson, vila, Pokrosky and Associates, Package and Mail delivery". If thought as a campaign, the group could be a group of enterprising veterans, who, for one reason or another, are now free of their military obligations towards their respective armies. Perhaps they have decided that the war is over for them and that is about time to take care about themselves and try to survive at their own. My idea is not as like what was depicted in "The Postman", the David Brine's book. So, I prefer the characters not to be devoted to community as a public service. Instead, I prefer them to be some kind on independent, neutral group with a clear and unmistakable motto: "We always deliver the mail"

If conceived as a campaign, I think that the GM must begin choosing an interesting geographical area with different and sometimes confronted communities. An area with cantonments, warlords, independent farmers, etc, could be interesting. The initial area could be limited in extension, but with open possibilities to extent the mail service to other territories if the group succeeds.

Ideally, the discretion, safety, neutrality and integrity of the service could provide interesting and assorted missions from different customers. And this qualities would be the best guarantees for the company for not to fall under the boot of an annoyed and powerful customer, perhaps a warlord angry because an important message not delivered or because the suspicion that the rivals are using the company for their own messages. So, the group will be walking in the grey, narrow and not often clear line of the "neutrality".

For this campaign to be possible, the customers must think that their messages and packages are more secure with "Anderson, vila, Pokrosky and associates" that with their own people. So one of the goals of the campaign is to work to get this image. From the first, easy contracts issued by common villagers to the desperate agent whose only choice is to rely in the services offered by the characters to send a vital message. The best weapons: a good information network, discrete methods to contact with the costumers, local knowledge of the area...

The group could elaborate a price list depending of the assignment, the size and weight of the package and the way to deliver it and the danger of the possible route...And of course, the number of special and strange delivers that a GM can arrange has no limits.
Well, I know that this campaign could have some unrealistic features, but it could be funny anyway. It can be as open as you want and, with time and good work, perhaps your group (perhaps against its own will) ends playing a major role in the balance of power of a region. A different campaign for the Twilight:2000 environment.

As a alternative, you can introduce a mail delivery grop like the one depicted above as a NPCs, working in the same area where your players are living.

[Mohoender]

Marc

I don't know if you have watched "Dark Angel" 1st season. The main character is doing exactly that in a post-EMP Seattle. Can be interesting for inspiration. 2nd season is not that interesting (IMO).

[Marc]

Ei!
I don't know what is "Dark Angel"... I will whisper it to Saint Google...

[Targan]

Mmm. Dark Angel. Jessica Alba. She REALLY needs my phone number, poor thing.

[Krejcik]

When in doubt of an adventure: Zombie survival.

[TiggerCCW UK]

The first time my PC's ran across zombies it gave them a real shock. They were exploring an abandoned Soviet maintenance depot when they opened the wrong door.....

[Mohoender]

Mmm. Dark Angel. Jessica Alba. She REALLY needs my phone number, poor thing.

Unlike for Carla Bruni, you'll have to come after me Targan.