RogerBW's Blog

Notes on Mongoose's Bayern 4: The First Crossing 29 January 2025

This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD. Spoilers for Plot Point 2.

Like "Message Drone", there's not necessarily a lot for Entdecker's crew to do here, though doubtless _Bayern's) engineering crew will welcome help from a stutterwarp expert.

All the subcraft are docked, and I feel the best way to take advantage of this is to use Entdecker's airlock steriliser at low power to produce interference.

I plumped for the AGRA-Affected saboteur template, and they were pretty much revealed here as the personality overlay was not at all stable. (Also I didn't want to overdo the paranoia and "one of our friends is working against us" aspect of things.) With sufficient evidence, even the most egotistical scientist should be convinced that they're acting oddly and have no memory of it. The overlay is terrified of the AGRA encounter, but doesn't want to destroy Bayern: they may actually help matters, by "remembering" a drive explosion thanks to minor calibration errors, even as they're trying to make the calibration worse in the hope of delaying the mission.

See also:
Notes on Mongoose's Bayern 2: Message Drone

Add A Comment

Your Name
Your Email
Your Comment

Your submission will be ignored if any field is left blank, but your email address will not be displayed. Comments will be processed through markdown.

Search
Archive
Tags 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2300ad 3d printing action advent of code aeronautics aikakirja anecdote animation anime army astronomy audio audio tech base commerce battletech bayern beer boardgaming book of the week bookmonth chain of command children chris chronicle church of no redeeming virtues cold war comedy computing contemporary cornish smuggler cosmic encounter coup covid-19 crime crystal cthulhu eternal cycling dead of winter doctor who documentary drama driving drone ecchi economics en garde espionage essen 2015 essen 2016 essen 2017 essen 2018 essen 2019 essen 2022 essen 2023 essen 2024 existential risk falklands war fandom fanfic fantasy feminism film firefly first world war flash point flight simulation food garmin drive gazebo genesys geocaching geodata gin gkp gurps gurps 101 gus harpoon historical history horror hugo 2014 hugo 2015 hugo 2016 hugo 2017 hugo 2018 hugo 2019 hugo 2020 hugo 2021 hugo 2022 hugo 2023 hugo 2024 hugo-nebula reread in brief avoid instrumented life javascript julian simpson julie enfield kickstarter kotlin learn to play leaving earth linux liquor lovecraftiana lua mecha men with beards mpd museum music mystery naval noir non-fiction one for the brow opera parody paul temple perl perl weekly challenge photography podcast politics postscript powers prediction privacy project woolsack pyracantha python quantum rail raku ranting raspberry pi reading reading boardgames social real life restaurant reviews romance rpg a day rpgs ruby rust scala science fiction scythe second world war security shipwreck simutrans smartphone south atlantic war squaddies stationery steampunk stuarts suburbia superheroes suspense television the resistance the weekly challenge thirsty meeples thriller tin soldier torg toys trailers travel type 26 type 31 type 45 vietnam war war wargaming weather wives and sweethearts writing about writing x-wing young adult
Special All book reviews, All film reviews
Produced by aikakirja v0.1