QUIN-TESS-ENCE's page

We will still play the D6 rules, your all 16/17 you have not joined any service to get skills. I will be allocating a skill pool for back ground skills.

The rock TL6 in a TL7 system
You all live in a rock, mine'ed out years ago, dart poor, living with your families in whats lift of the minting facility, the hole place make money form refuelling the odd ship that drops by, and selling reclaimed mining scrap.

You can be a Varga or human [Solamarny] but no Hivers or Aslan.

[STATS]
Strength (Str): [6+2d6]
A character’s physical strength, fitness and forcefulness.
Dexterity (Dex): [6+2d6]
Physical co-ordination and agility, reflexes.
Endurance (End): [6+2d6]
A character’s ability to sustain damage, stamina and determination.
Intelligence (Int): [6+2d6 re-roll 1's] [On the rock your ether smart or dead]
A character’s intellect and quickness of mind.
Education (Edu): [8+1d6] [you are all home school but may live on a rock but you have access to education SIMS]
A measure of a character’s learning and experience. Social Standing (Soc): [4+1d4]
A character’s place in society. [Your are dart Poor]

[Health is STR+END for this one]

[SKILLS] [Roll 2d6 Add you skill level see if you beat the DC]
Vacc suit 1
Comms 1
Survival 1
+6 points to place in Skills.
You have access to Basic Computer sims you can take any skill to +1
Traviler skills here

Your poor, best weapon you may have is a snub pistol or a shot gun.
Every one Gets
a beat up TL 6 Vacc suit
a short range radio
A Space Survival pack, 1 person Air Tent, food, water, Rope, Multi tool, star campus, Torch, rad-detector.

+1 personal item you found TL6

Once I know who wants in, I will reserve places for you and open to other players if I don't get 5 players

Dear fellow player's, I would like to make an offer, would you like to play in another space game.

Based on the Traveller space RPG system

Let me know what you think.

Health comes 1st GM SuperTumbler, It has been fun and I loved playing with you and my fellow players. All the best everyone.

GM SuperTumbler, can you be so kind as to make the game inactive.

"And let that be a lesson to you"

She says to the pile of bits.

1: ALT POWER = COSMIC MOVE OBJECT 10 [33pp]
Range 250/500/1000' 25 tons DC25 Accurate 3, +6 Damaging
Extra: Damaging [10pp]
Extra: Accurate 3 [3pp]
Power Force Field 10 22pp
+10 toughness DC20 Affects insubstantial 2 Full Rank, Sustained. Attack others + Self / Save Dodge
Dimensional 3 [all] Imperviese 10
1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23

Tess has had it with the nighty robot, She trues to pick it up with her force field and slam it into the roof.

1: ALT POWER = Damaging force field. 10 [34pp]
Effects Others + self, Range 35' Shaable, DMG DC25 [Douge Save] Acruete/ Effect Incon. 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

She has had enght, she slaps the robot walker.

"Stop that at once"

Stamps her holographic foot,

"I'm not having this"

And walks twards the Robot,

"You should know better, your giving Mecha a bad name young robot."

She is going to try and hack it.

Computers 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23

This here is a game for fun and relaxation, and it and we, will be here when things get back to normal, and they will. I will be praying for you and your family.

So have a happy Xmass and New Year everyone

A small light bead detaches from Roy's suit, it's the size of a pee. It hovers in the air a moment before Tess comes into being, a 1950s house wife there in Holo -form.

"Mind link os a good idea, so how are things going?

So if GM is happy you all should show up on the old alien based

Scanners 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20

"Running the scan now.... got it"

She prosses the scans and finds a spot to send the other too.

Teleport 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

She looked at the others,

"Up to then, so long as you are in place in 28 minutes, and 20 seconds to do a scan all should be good. Not the rock is the size of a small mountain, jet packs or other means of preparation is a must"

hi All taking the comic-logic, you always have a pre-act, and this is it, Qinn is not a stealth ship, so we are doing this "Maximum Effort" as Deadppol says. She has hidden herself behind a large space rock that is going Evil Villan's space base way. Once she is in Teleport range, she will port you over to the Evil Villan's space base, but before you can do that, your going to have to scan for a suitable location on the Evil Villan's space base to port too. That means climbing to the far side of this space rock and doing a scan, while not being seen or meeting anything nasty on this rock.

comic-logic, Mag 1 of the arch come to a gripping end.

"If we want to sneak in, can't just drop out of N space next to them, My plan is to come, shadowing another astroid that is outsdie their scanner range, and wait until it gets close, into teleport range and get you on there where there are no shields blocking teleport. ofter that its figer out a way and how to stop them."

Once she has a plat set.

"And we should have translated in 3, 2, 1, here!"

The image on the screens changes and they seem to be on the dark side of a large asteroid.

"Right this rock will be in TP range in 1/2 an hour, I suggest everyone get kitted out for wee space work. I need to get a scan of the Alian teleporter base to see where I can teleport is too. That means someone going outside to where they can see the target base and scan it without being seen themselves. My main ship body will have to be kept hidden as soon as it pokes its head up their scanners will light up just like a Christmas tree. So suit up and take this.

She hands them a suitcase-sized portable scanner.

"And let's hope they did not put something nasty here as an early warning system. Remember we are trying to sneak in. Sneek Sneek.. Sneek"

"Intersystem jumps have to be careful, just under two hours say, we are trying to sneek close."

"I suggest we don't do an in-system micro-jump close to it, but keep at range, Jump to just within TP range, Fast Teleport and have the ship jump back out again. If they have TP-blocking shields around the roid, It may need a good old-fashioned space drop, ... just need asto map location site intel."

She says.

Nods

"Yes that will do it, port the elements into the center of the start and you could even direct the mega flare."

"That is my point, to even disrupt like that you need a rapid delivery device. Just dropping it into a star will note give you that."

"Do you have any idea how much material they would need to disrupt a sun? But that is not really the point! The point is Just having a big pile of elements is not enough If you wish a sun to mega fler. You need a delivery device, one that will dig deep into the sun and then scatter that matter over a large area. A such as an anti-matter field effecter torpedo, and they are not small, think Mega scraper-sized round slamming into the sun, worming its way deep, and then exploding to set off a chain reaction. "

She moved her hands out when she added.

"BOOOOM!"

"Yes, with the element being so rare, I suspect a KEY of some kind. To who knows what? But Money does not seem a motive if they are from where we think they are, they have cash aplenty. If they aimed to start a conflict, there are much better ways than to steal odd artifacts. And that would not explain the elements these artifacts are made from. So using my insight and deducing that they are looking for something in particular."

Tess seems to be thinking, which means her main AI core was thinking.

"If the elements are abundant, then it's not those they are after BUT a specific artifact, whoever is behind the thefts may have a limited description of what the artifact they may be after is. Just that is expanse and mostly made form these three elements. So they are stealing too and checking if they have the right object."

She looks up at the roof, a moment.

"I have sent a request for that information. Lets see what comes back"

"err, All of the thefts involve items rich in three particular elements: boron, beryllium,and lithium, the only three elements not created from stellar reactions alone. The creation of these elements involves cosmic ray spallation, a rare event where a powerful burst of gamma radiation launches into heavier elements—ones created in a star—blasting them apart to create these lighter elements. The origin and evolution of lithium–beryllium–boron is a crossing point between different astrophysical fields. Lithium, beryllium, and boron are also unique because they are fragile elements and they are destroyed in stellar interiors by fusion reactions at progressively higher temperatures."

She can see they are not following. She makes come hologram cakes to represent the elements and puts them in order.

"If you were to take every element in the periodic table and order them by how abundant they are in the Universe, you'd find something a little bit surprising. The most common element is hydrogen, composing nearly three-quarters of the Universe by mass. At about one-quarter is helium, produced mostly in the early stages of the hot Big Bang but also produced by the nuclear fusion occurring in most stars, including our Sun.Beyond that is oxygen at #3, carbon at #4, followed closely by neon,
nitrogen, iron, magnesium and silicon, all of which are produced in the interiors of hot-burning, massive, and giant stars. In general, heavier elements are rare and light elements are abundant, but there are three big exceptions: lithium, beryllium, and boron. Yet these three elements are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th lightest of all"

She holds up three cupcakes.

"In the immediate aftermath of the hot Big Bang, the first atomic nuclei formed from an ultra-energetic sea of quarks, leptons, photons, gluons, and antiparticles. As the Universe cooled, the antiparticles annihilated away, the photons ceased being energetic enough to blast bound nuclei apart, and so the early Universe's protons and neutrons began to fuse together. If we could create the heavy elements found on planet Earth, the Universe could have been ready for life from the time the first stars were born. Unfortunately for our dreams of the Universe being born with the ingredients necessary for life, photons remain too energetic to form even the simplest heavy nucleus — deuterium, with one proton and one neutron bound together — until more than three minutes have passed since the Big Bang. By the time nuclear reactions can proceed, the Universe is only one-billionth as dense as the center of the Sun."

She spins them around a sun.

"This is still a pretty good deal, as it gives us a Universe made of about 75% hydrogen, 25% helium-4, about 0.01% deuterium and helium-3 each, and approximately 0.0000001% lithium. That tiny amount of lithium is what existed before any stars in the Universe formed, and that's a really, really good thing for us, because lithium is a pretty important element for many applications, technologies, and even biological functions on Earth, including in humans. But once you start forming stars, everything changes. Yes, once you achieve star-like densities along with temperatures that rise over about 4 million K, you start fusing hydrogen into helium; our Sun is busy doing that right now. The nuclear processes that occur are literally Universe-changing. Only, they don't just change things in the way we'd want; they also change things in an unexpected direction.

An earth and big back shown

"When you form a star, it isn't just hydrogen that reaches those astronomically high temperatures, it's all the particles inside. Unfortunately for lithium, these are temperatures that are more than sufficient to blast it apart. Lithium has been one of the most notoriously difficult elements to measure in the Universe for primarily this reason: by the time we arrive at the present day and can reliably extract a lithium signal, a lot of what the Universe began with has already been destroyed. "Hang on," I can hear you objecting. "The Universe is clearly full of these heavy elements: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and all the elements necessary for life, all the way up the periodic table to uranium and even beyond. Surely there's got to be a way to make them, right?" Indeed, you are right."

Now a white dwarf star

"When every massive-enough star (including our Sun) burns through all the hydrogen in its core, nuclear fusion slows and stops. All of a sudden, the radiation pressure that was holding the star's interior up against gravitational collapse begins to drop, and the core begins to shrink. In physics, when any system of matter compresses quickly relative to a certain timescale, it heats up. In the interiors of stars, a mostly helium core can reach such extreme temperatures that the nuclear fusion of helium into carbon can begin, through a special nuclear reaction known as the triple-alpha process. In stars like the Sun, carbon is the end, and the only way heavier elements are formed is by the production of neutrons, which can bump you up the periodic table very slowly. Once helium fusion has fully run its course, the star's outer layers will be expelled in a planetary nebula while the core shrinks down to form a white dwarf."

The Atams are shown.

"But there are stars much more massive than this, capable of undergoing carbon fusion as the core contracts down even farther. Stars where this occurs will fuse carbon into oxygen, oxygen into neon, neon into magnesium, and up and up until they've created silicon, sulphur, argon, calcium, and elements all the way up to iron, nickel and cobalt. When they've finally run out of useful fuel, they'll end their lives in a cataclysmic event known as a supernova. These supernovae are responsible for a large fraction of many of the Universe's heavier elements, while other events like white dwarf-white dwarf mergers or neutron star-neutron star mergers produce the remainder. Between stars that end their lives in planetary nebulae or supernovae, as well as the mergers of their remnants, we can account for the overwhelming majority of the elements found in nature."

Super nova

"Between the following mechanisms:
the Big Bang, the hydrogen-burning stars, the helium-burning stars (complete with the emission and absorption of neutrons),
the carbon-and-beyond-burning stars (complete with their end-of-life in Type II supernovae),
the mergers of white dwarfs (producing Type Ia supernovae),
and the mergers of neutron stars (producing kilonovae and the majority of the heaviest elements),
we can account for practically every one of the elements we find in the Universe. There are a couple of unstable elements that get skipped — technetium and promethium — because they decay away too quickly. But three of the lightest elements need a new method, because none of these mechanisms create beryllium or boron, and the amount of lithium we see cannot be explained by the Big Bang alone."

Shows the stages.

"Hydrogen fuses into helium, and helium is element #2. It takes three helium nuclei to fuse together into carbon, where carbon is element #6. But what about those three elements in between? What about lithium, beryllium, and boron? As it turns out, there are no stellar processes that make these elements in sufficient quantities without destroying them almost as quickly, and there's a good physics reason why. If you were to add hydrogen to helium, you'd create lithium-5, which is unstable and decays almost immediately. You could try to fuse two helium-4 nuclei together to make beryllium-8, which is also unstable and decays almost immediately. In fact, all nuclei with masses of either 5 or 8 are unstable. You cannot make these elements from stellar reactions involving light or heavy elements; there's no way to make them in stars at all. Yet lithium, beryllium, and boron not only all exist, they're essential to life processes here on Earth."

shows the reactions.

"These elements, instead, owe their existence to the most energetic sources of particles in the Universe: pulsars, black holes, supernovae, kilonovae, and active galaxies. These are the Universe's known natural particle accelerators, spewing out cosmic particles in all directions throughout the galaxy and even across the vast intergalactic distances.
The energetic particles produced by these objects and events move in all directions, and will eventually run into another particle of matter. If that particle that it strikes turns out to be a carbon (or heavier) nucleus, the high energies of the collision can cause another nuclear reaction that blasts the larger nucleus apart, creating a cascade of lower-mass particles. Just like nuclear fission can split an atom into lighter elements, the collision of a cosmic ray with a heavy nucleus can similarly blast these heavy, complex particles apart."

Gamma ray

"When you smash a high-energy particle into a massive nucleus, the large nucleus splits apart into a variety of component particles. This process, known as spallation, is how the majority of lithium, beryllium, and boron was formed in our Universe. These are the only elements in the Universe that are primarily formed by this process, rather than by stars, stellar remnants, or the Big Bang itself. When you look at how abundant all of the elements we know of are, there's a superficially surprising dearth of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th lightest elements of all. There's an enormous gulf between helium and carbon, and at last we know why. The only way to produce these cosmic rarities is by a chance collision of particles streaking across the Universe, and that's why there's only a few billionths the amount of any of these elements compared to carbon, oxygen and helium. Cosmic ray spallation is the only way to make them once we've entered the age of stars, and billions of years later, even these trace elements are essential to the book of life."

The show ends.

The main AI brain that was Tess/ship did a digital smile.

"Could be risky, I'm not supposed to do things like that Honey"

any int skill +10

Once back on the ship, Tess goes back to disembodied voice mode.

"Of course I can, also there are holo projectors throughout the ship. You need only ask and I can display any crew member."

Tess is happy, this is going well. She shows her credentials and documents as an Ambisider AI ship with a crew of independent investigators.

"I just help out as I can"

she says in all relevant languages.

"So you want to hell us about the crime and what was taken?"

A note pad and pen pop's into her hologram hand and a magnifying glass in the other.

"They really seem to want to have at each other, well I'm out of ideas"

She seand

"Commanders, it seems we have all followed clues to this very location at this very time. I suggest to you that this is no coincidence but a designed act. An evil plan meant to start a conflict between us. Whoever is behind this design is our joint enemy. To prove to you that I as an Ambassador of the Quintessence am no Enermy to either of you, I have lowered my shields and placed myself open for full inspection to both of you. While you do so, why not stand down until your joint search for me is over? Competing for your evidence shows any compatibility of others in any thefts for a 3ed party's hand. What I am suggesting to commanders if the 2ed rule of detection. Verify all evidence. Myself and my crew will wait for your inspection teams. And I am making some earth cake if you fancy any I am happy to supply some."

What she was offering the two commanders was an out, and time. Time to cross-check and work out of something bigger was afoot. They were there because of the Propt-Improbaility drive. Dumping them out of N Space at a very improbable event in real space. One of the more worrying side effects of the drive. And why a lot of shipmakers did not use it. But the Quintessence were the galaxy's peace-makers. Tess was not where she wanted to be, exactly where she needed to be, with exactly the right people. Improbability was like that, the problem was the drive just got them there, Now they had to do the things that would save the day. The problem was the driver had no way of telling you what needed to be done. Improbability meant you were on your own, and right now she was thinking of her wires to try and stop a war.

To her shipmates

"Let's not do anything hostile, I have given them some time to cool down and let us know what is going on. I suggest you ask them what has been stolen. If they ask why we are here tell them, we heard that a war was going to happen here. No need to lie, right now we have to be open and honest. I may be offline for a while, as they go over my flight records. I am not the greater Quintessence just an instance of it, so my records are limited."

She sends on the TP line,

"My hope is that will not be necessary but under galactic law, if they attack this ship we can use whatever means we see fit to give them a good thrashing for doing so."

She whispers back.

Tess is there looking at the two waring gents.

But its the ship that talks.

Expertise 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28 [Galactic Law]

"This is a Quintessence diplomatic craft Gentlemen, please check my galactic diplomatic immunity statutes. We would not want an incident to occur."

Her shields are fully up [ooc]HArdness 10 + Advantages
Benefit: Dimplmagtic immunity Galatic 1pp / Galatic authority 1 1pp] / Contact [1pp] / Connected [1pp]

Yikes sorry about that, my cut and past failed

Sapphire stood up. She had got what she could from the dead.

"Welcome, If you need some kit let me know, got a load of stuff we looted and some may be of use"
Says the android killbot,

As she stood there her body and clothing cleaned and fixed itself, as her nineties did there work.

She used Prestidigitation and mend to clean and fix her clothing and gear FLavered as her nanites

No Crew, There are just two skutter bots and Tess

"Yes, of course, the use of the master bedroom has yet to be won in this week's poker game. But any of the guest rooms not taken is open to you."

She leads you to a luscious room with a meeting table, seats, small kitchen, on on-suite bathroom, a queen-sized bad resended, and a window+bench seat looking out into space.

Tess has no room as such, you will always find her in the Gally if not called upon to be with the team.

The use of the main bedroom is one of the Key ship's items won and lost in the crew's weekly poker night, each Thursday night, ships night,

Other items are cleaning the mess hall, recycling crew waste, feeding the fish in the fish tanks, walking the ship's cat Smgily Snacks, washing the ship's cat, feeding the ship's cat, having the ship's cat try in your room, skimming the pool for odd things left behind, and de-dusting the doormats.

A voice comes from the space around you.

"Its just when the drive activates. You will be fine now, there may be another bit of oddness when we come out of improbability space. But there I will place receptacles around the decks for anyone feeling a little queasy, we are running in N-Space now. Would you like my holo-form to show you to a room? I have some fine state rooms and the replicators are fully programmed with Galatic norms. From Star Burgers to Zarac sea slared. I recommend the Earth Cheesecake and Coffes"

The rooms at 5-star, with on-suit, bathrooms, and clothing area, each as a fine view of N-Space. A fully stocked bar, and a scutter bot to help dress and undress you. The entertainment system is loaded with galactic and earth music and Holo-shows. But nothing R rated, it's all family friendly.

GM, is it ok if we have time traveling, it's not fun doing instantaneous travel. The team can talk and explore the ship while getting to know each other

Once in the slip of probability things settled down, and Tess [ship] has a Robot minion show everyone new their cabin. Where the old crew already had their own space.

Deck plan here

Tess is the ship so needs no room.

Tess stands.

"If we have all the information we need, then let us not wait."

Her eyes flutter for a moment as she communicates to her larger self.

"I have sent our shuttle up, we can teleport I have locked us all in, so when you're ready."

With that, she TPs up to her bigger self,

A representation hologram waits for each of them as they teleport onto the command deck.

"When you are ready I will Jump us too just outside the system, From there we can have a look at what is going on and make a call on what to do next."

The space Yhate moves away from the pink world and into a jump location.

"Engaging Proto-Improbability drive"

And reality falls apart, shifts left, folds back on itself, does a loop-d-loop, and becomes its own grandfather.

She shakes her fish.

"The Stellar Imperium gerrrr"

trying to show human feelings.

Tess has the Stellar Imperium as enemies and The Quintessence works for what is left of the Lor Republic.

Optimism is a weapon

Holding out her hand, a hologram of the system came into being in the air in front of her.

"This is the system in question, its an old recording but the only one I have."

Tess waits a moment eyes blinking as she consults with her larger self and by it the others of the Quintessence.

She clasps her hands and says with a smile.

"The risk of ending this instance of Quintessence has been deemed excitable by the great has Quintessence mind. For the sake of better relations with humans. They asked me to report back when this human adventure is over. So I'm in."

She smiles looking up at the others. Fear did not seem to enter Tess's mind, she just seemed excised having read the comics of daring do, by human 'superheroes'. It was an odd naming, for most races linked to other planes and tech, beings with powers were a norm. Humans where odd in many ways. As death worlders, beings form worlds with high levels of inherent violence to the point of mass killings across the birth world. It was a wonder they had not wiped themselves out, history says they almost did more than once. As well... most death-worlders did.

And yet here they were in the stars and acting as helpers to other races. Humans where such a Fascinating race, so many paradoxes.

Tess was happy, this would be very stimulating.

Wanted to ask GM about Sled's time power.
If a PC slows time, is that not just super speed in another form?

A PCs personal time speeds up relative to the rest of the universal cosmos time.
And
If your power slows down universal cosmos time, your PC's personal time speeds up it.

As in fact the same thing.

But a power that slows local time in a local area, relative to universal cosmos time, and PC's personal time. Is not the same thing, Your slowing time for an aura around you, Anyone inside that bubble of slowed time will see you and the rest of the cosmos moving faster to them.

I hope I explained that well.

So I wondered which is it,

Personal super speed Time power
Or
Area effect superslow time power.

Side notes on time travel

Tess moves forward in time, what she does is make a bubble of Improbability around the ship that jumps it and everything in it by every point in time, between the now of the jump to up to 100 years ahead, Instantly, now because it's based on Improbability where you land is anyone guess [GM plat magic power :)]

The one thing Tess can't do is go back in time. Because it breaks a load of laws. Like, "No time jump sleeping with the ancestors!!"

High up in space Quintessence the larger was intrigued that its main AI down below had asked it for some information from its data banks, not finding anything in its date base, it linked to the greater Quintessence office of records, out in the galaxy, placed a request for information, was rejected twice, filled in a complaints E226-64_Sub R form, sat in on a tribunal review and was after a small bribe given finally the information. Which it passed onto itself now with little interest. Its job is done it went back to watching the local space traffic.

The whole event took little more than 2.5363963 seconds.

"Daedalus?"

Her eyes blink for a moment as her bigger self sends down the information.

"Oh"

Is all she says, waiting to hear what his response will be to
Rigel question.

When I was in college in the 80's I would draw my characters out. I've thought about trying to do it on a graphics program, but I only have gimp and I've not used it much.

Try one of the AI art tools.

nope whish i had, found it on the web :)

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