Theros Posted December 24, 2013 Report Share Posted December 24, 2013 I am starting up Terracide campaign. I have read through station (asteroid) description several times, but I have some difficulties to figure out floor plan of it. Can someone draw rough picture from levels (how those are located), where the lake is inside the station and so on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 24, 2013 Report Share Posted December 24, 2013 Note to self: next edition needs map of Marathon Free Station! Yes! I'd be glad to help you out with that, Theros. And feel free to post any other questions you have on this forum. When do you need it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theros Posted December 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2013 Lets say that tomorrow. In anycase later is good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 25, 2013 Report Share Posted December 25, 2013 I'm currently working on the next edition of Terracide; hip-deep in converting all the starships to another game system and adding about a dozen new ones. So it'll probably be later, during the weekend. My previous attempts at creating such a map using computer graphics were a disaster -- I don't have the background for that sort of thing. So I'm going to try drawing it by hand instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 25, 2013 Report Share Posted December 25, 2013 ... New game system? Which one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 There's gonna be a Savage Worlds edition early in 2014. However, I try not to make a habit of advertising products for other game systems on the Hero forums. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Being in the economic dire straits I am, first prio is to buy the actual Hero Terracide first. ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Getting started on that map tonight. Don't know if I'll get it done all in one go or not. I'd like to hear more about your Terracide campaign sometime, Theros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 OK, here's a (very) rough, quick and dirty sketch. Keep in mind this is a one-quarter cut-away, not the whole thing -- there's a thumbnail in the lower left showing which quarter you're looking at here. The other three quarters are just like this, but mirror images of it. If some details differ from the text, don't worry; this is the correct layout. If you have any further questions or need more details, let me know. (Not sure if the "plasma tube" was mentioned in the book, but I realized a light source was needed inside the habitat!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theros Posted December 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Ok so all the apartments are basically inside the outerior walls? None of the apartments are inside the interior walls? Warrens is,basically slum part of the asteroid, there are only series of tunnels and rooms where possible people live? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 The most *desirable* apartments are those on the inner walls, overlooking the parks and the lake, for obvious reasons. The other walls overlook agricultural fields, but they all have ample room for living spaces. The Warrens are basically "off the map." Many of the tunnels down there have been hollowed out without authorization, or even any real plan, and nobody has a complete map of them. There are hundreds, possibly thousands of miles of tunnels in the Warrens, and an unknown population living there. Edited to add: I think I've confused the issue by using the term "outer wall" differently on the map and in the book. I'm at work now and don't have a copy of Terracide with me. However, I'm pretty sure that in the book "outer wall" referred to walls on either side of the agricultural caverns, not the outer (space-side) surface of the asteroid. That wouldn't be a safe place to put living quarters! I'll edit the map after work Wednesday. My bad. (Sorry, but Awesome Gamer Girl wasn't feeling well tonight; had to go and look in on her.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Very interesting campaign setting. Hafta think about getting that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Thanks, BlueCloud2k2. I took a bit of inspiration from gurps: Transhuman Space and assumed that lots of different types of space habitats would be in use. A number of them are in systems with active flare stars, so asteroid habitats make a lot of sense for those cases; they've got tons of built-in shielding. Not much of a view, though. Not everyone wants to travel across light-years of space just to hide in a cave; so in many systems O'Neill type colonies are also quite popular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croakerdogboy Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 As a big Transhuman space fan I was looking into this one for a similar reason. I have been trying to come up with something similar to the Paratwa series background. Lots of grit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted January 1, 2014 Report Share Posted January 1, 2014 As promised, here's a revised version of the map which more closed matches the description of Marathon Free Station in the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theros Posted January 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2014 As you wanted to know what kind of campaign I am GMing. I can reveal rough plot line in here, more detailed if someone wants to know in PM Characters are in my case premade. They serve TGO, some are more and some less loyal. There Combat Medic, Smuggler, Bounty Hunter, High Tech Mechanic, Spec Ops military soldier and Agent. Campaign starts in the situation where ships have been attacked around space. Some ships have been destroyed, some are floating in space without crew. Ships are transportation and military vessels. Characters have lost their spaceship, "Sarah's Tears", which was old smuggling ship. Characters did escape using escape pod, but they were not able to recognize attacking ship. They did not have any cargo there. Now they are travelling to Marathon Free Station where they will get job from TGO agent. TGO agent asks characters to do little bit investigation inside the station. After investigation there are decision to make. Should they go to abandoned space colony to see what is happening there, or should they go to space colony which haven't keep contact for 4 weeks. Those both have places have something to do with these attacks. When those places have been "investigated" characters will get clues from secret space station, that station is inhabitated by badly failed clone testing. Those clones are not human anymore...who has done that and why...information is in stations laboratory computer...then station should be destroyed...or should the players clear it and give it to TGO? At that point ISTAR is going after PCs...they have now something that they want. PCs have now rough idea what might be behind those attacks, but why? They need to find "organization" behind attacks...PCs still might get in time to save people...it depends how fastly they went through first parts of the campaign... this is very rough description from plot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted January 2, 2014 Report Share Posted January 2, 2014 Sounds intriguing enough that I wish I could sign up to play! Hope you and your players have fun, and please keep me posted on how it goes, if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theros Posted January 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2014 I left encounters and few twists away from description to keep my players knowing everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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