


don't do that in this group/my game" when they back themselves into a corner via "No, no. So many goddamned weeks fixing and revising things to fit complaints about 'realism' or 'lore' or 'Jaguars can't swim!!!' until a limp wristed "Oh, we uh. I used to have such a huge naive blindspot for believing people saying garbage like "Oh, it wouldn't be realistic/lore friendly if you, the player, were not screwed over or deprived of something" in spite of so many other more traditionally jaded gamer outlooks. It makes me wonder if Kiva or the others read this story. I'm keeping it in here because it dovetails with my later plans for Cartel on Cartel violence fantastically. On the other hand, FASAnomics is a thing and the original setting wasn't at all sustainable or particularly survivable. And that's to say nothing about how a podunk hole like Mechdur got the lostech chops to build it in the first place. The Capellans would have been all over that like stink on shit, and if not them literally everyone else in the region. Jumpship repair facilities are supposed to be beyond precious. Second, old school FASA heads will very quickly see the problem with that setup. It makes some of the bullshit I have planned later on down the line for the Ramey Cartel even funner. Refurbishing a maintenance slip for JumpShips at Mechdur, thereby establishing a basic infrastructure for regular JumpShip traffic.įirst off, let me say it tickles me pink that the House Book introduces a rival Cartel for House Ramey to struggle against. When the Aurigan Trade Partnership was formed, the Gwendor-Dorwinion Cartel revitalized trade in the Aurigan Reach region by

The book says Mechdur features multiple major spaceports, as well as a recharging station at the nadir jump point supported by a number of industrial and transit space stations home to 150,000 people. A minor argument started over the fact that it involved the Aurigan Reach having an orbital slip at all.īefore I dump a lot of details from the new House Arano book, keep in mind I started writing this story and setup the Ramey Cartel months before the game even released. Not because it contains references to prostitution, giving babies access to grenades, or public breast feeding. When I floated this chapter past the guys, it sparked a bit of minor outrage.
