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2004 #171
Message: 5
Well, of course I will be happy to share. I will be on the road for a few days, so don't expect any reply, but would love is some added some more ideas, etc to the following.
The basic story line is wrapped up in the history below, but lets just say that the elder brother, Sir Martin Sincavage, up and left several years ago. Word is that he left for the Beyond. For years nobody missed him. Then a strange message came in about some epic battles Sir Martin seems to have found in the Beyond. Strange aliens, weapons, a cross road of pain and reward.
Sir Jeremide has decided to head off on the rescue. Selling most of the family assets, and leveraging his family name it seems he now has everything he needs (lots of credit). The only thing he is looking for is a few good travellers, a good rifle, and a good ship. Most of the crew will be his contacts from the scouts.
Behind the story is the very real sub plot about the battle between the [very bad and evil] Sred Ni and Corellian forces (the largest force in The Beyond).
However, the imps have some vested interest in keeping informed about the goings on, as there are rumors about a very powerful weapon that has been deployed, and took a large chunk out of a remote Zhodani moon base. Who, what, and why are still being determined. Even if it is true or not is not know, as the Zhodani are not talking. It would be safe to say the Zhodani are very interested in finding out as well... Perhaps they will join this mission?
In addition there has been a rash of human abductions, some very good and skilled people, and some claim it is the same force that blew a hole in the moon is behind these as well.
To top it all off, for some reason the Sred Ni have, in the past year, started to fall back and there are reports of heavy fighting in and around their inner planets. But who are they fighting, and why?
There have been claims about a human called The Walker who has been placed around several of these strange events. But this rumor has been around for over 10 years... Most have written it off. But should they?
There have been outlandish claims of a ship over a km long, but again, no hard evidence.
And lastly, the asteroid base orbiting a dim star has just up and disappeared. With over 50,000 people who called it home!
Who, what and why? For good or evil? What the heck is going on in the Beyond?
All sorts of intelligence groups are working to get some agents on the crew... In addition to sending their own ships and parties into the fray.
Sir Jeremide Alexis Sincavage has determined that the message he received, and he is not telling any of the content, came from a nice world at the edge of Sred Ni space called DeJean. This is where he is going.
Colonel John Sincavage, Imperial Marines, the second of the above mentioned sons was killed in 792, in the Third Frontier War by the Zhodani.
General Martin D. Sincavage, Imperial Marines, one of his sons was one of the Marches great men. He was a man of marked character and brilliant ability. He was in war a brave, vigilant and efficient officer. He was an aid under General Shelby, and was appointed to the Zhodani peace talks by the sector Duke Gabriel Slaughter to fill a vacancy, serving one session. He died in 900, aged one hundred forty-three. Colonel John J. Sincavage, Imperial Marines, was his son. He fell in the battle of Garda-Vilis, Spinward, 963. His actions at Garda-Vilis reaffirmed a knighthood for his family and awarded the surviving members an estate on Nixine. His eldest, Sir Martin Sincavage, was called "ruffled Shirt Martin" because of his superior education, courtly manners and haughty attitude. In his fifty-fourth year he dropped these "nifty" clothes, took up his rifle and went to the aid of his Emperor, as a private in Capt. Zadok Springer's mercenary command. That action seemed to have cost him much of his intellect and he now spends most of his time stomping around the family estate in a drunken rage.
The second son, Sir Jeremide Alexis Sincavage was born the year his father died, 963. Left alone much of his childhood the young Jeremide wanted nothing to do with his mourning mother, much less with the soon to be crazy brother. For weeks at a time he would spend his time digging around the family estate, uncovering rare archaeological finds, or spending time researching them on the system data net. At the age of 21, fresh from the local University, he left home for good to explore the universe - joining the scouts. At the age of 23 Jeremide, while on a rescue mission, discovered a strange ship totally destroyed except for a small section of the hold which contained a lizard-like bi-pedal being; race unidentified. Jeremide's final search to this day is to uncover the mystery of that alien being now called Gig' N'anz.
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:15:17 -0500
From: Bob Sanders
Subject: RE: VLAS (was [TML] RE: Biting the hand...)
To: "'The Traveller Mailing List'" Referee's Teaser
Larsen sent this in:
> IIRC, the orginal poster, Mr. Sanders, mentioned something about a
> filthy rich noble needing a special ship for a 'rescue mission' beyond
> Imperial space somewhere. I wonder if he'd care to drop a few more details?
> Distance? Direction? Do you know where your 'rescuees' are or will you
> be looking? Anyone around who might not want the rescue to come off?
> Whipsnadian minds want to know...
>
> Sincerely,
> Larsen
>
> P.S. VLAS - (V)ery (L)arge (A)dventuring (S)hipNPCs
Sir Jeremide Alexis Sincavage
UPP:
798ABB
Skills:
Computer-4, Energy Weapons-1, Grav Vehicle-2, Laser Weapons-2, Liaison-1, Mechanical-1, Pilot-3, Stealth-2, Combat Rifle-2, Turret Weapons-1, Survival-3, Archaeology-3
Home World:
Nexine (Mora/Spinward Marches ????)
Family Background:
The Sincavage family (that is, the most prominent branch of it) settled in the Spinward Marches in the year 686. The legend of the family runs, that after the Massacre of Corridor, three brothers named Sincavage and loosely related to the Great Cleon, emigrated from Corridor to Deneb; but the Vargr attacks being too severe for them, they left that sector and again emigrated, this time to Regina, at that period a Imperial Colony and not an independent planet. At this point two of them settled, and the third continued his journey spinward until he reached the Beyond, at which point his records disappeared. Martin Sincavage, a descendant of one of these three brothers, in the year 765 moved from Regina, and found his permanent abiding place at Trin, SM. He married and was the father of seven children, three sons and four daughters. They were all born between the years 740 and 780. In 949 the youngest son, Martin Sincavage, died, at the advanced age of one hundred ninety-two years. He was the last survivor of that family of brothers and sisters.
Sincavage Descent from Cleon Zhunastu:
Cleon Zhunastu [, extended title here?]
Witekind III, Count of Wetten, Core
Hugh the Great, married Countess Adella, des. of Shiishuginsa
Lady Isabel de Vermeandois, married Robert de Beaumont, Earl Liester, Corridor
Robert Bossu de Bellomont married Amicia
Robet Blanchmains Bellomont married Petronella
Jane Bellomont married General Levi Sincavage
Colonel John Sincavage married Helen, daughter of Wallace
General Martin D. Sincavage married Olivia Winster
Colonel John J. Sincavage married Alexis Logan; they had two sons
Sir Martin Logan Sincavage
Sir Jeremide Alexis Sincavage
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