Stanko (Magyar 2810 A555649-C).
Like many gamers these days, we have turned to a virtual tabletop to keep playing. It’s not a completely new experience: I ran a pretty fun weekly Age of Worms campaign on Roll20 for a couple of years. The PCs had gotten all the way through the tenth adventure, “Kings of the Rift,” before real life intervened and we lost all momentum. I have been hankering for a more frequent game for a couple of years now, but just didn’t take the initiative until last week.
We played a session of our Into the Interface Traveller game last Thursday on Roll20. Well, “played” is probably being generous, as most of the session was spent tinkering with the technology and generally goofing around. We had previously used Google Hangouts for video chat, and that had worked reasonably well. Last week we tried Roll20’s native chat function and with six people the results were pretty terrible. I could only see two other players and hear two more. Also, people kept dropping on and off. After a while we switched to Discord for chat, which seems to be a popular solution.
Most of the rest of the session was spent setting up Discord accounts and playing around with that technology. But we did accomplish at least one thing: introducing two new PCs to the crew of the Starjammer: Sublieutenant Richy Jamoor, an ex-Navy officer, and Brogue, an ex-smuggler. The whole group is stuck on the agricultural world of Stanko while their ship undergoes routine maintenance and inspection.
| Name Richy Jamoor | UPP 2C4CA3 | |
| Service Navy, 3 terms | Rank Sublieutenant | |
| Birthdate 272-1068 | Homeworld Kline (Magyar 3012 A642987-E) | |
| Skills Admin 1, Athletics 0, Electronics (comms) 1, Electronics (sensors) 1, Engineer (J-drive) 1, Engineer (M-drive) 1, Engineer (power) 2, Flyer 0, Gun Combat 0, Gunner 0, Mechanic 2, Melee (blade) 1, Vacc Suit 1 | ||
| Possessions cutlass, snub pistol | Money Cr10,000 | |
| Comments Richy attended the Imperial Naval Academy (Magyar Branch), located at Seloo (Magyar 2102 A4319BA-E). He was assigned to Flight branch, 109th Fleet. For most of his three terms he served on Gionetti-class light cruisers as part of the 180th CruRon. The 180th was occasionally used for cross-border raids into the Solomani Confederation | ||
| Name Brogue | UPP 7B5B65 | |
| Service Rogue, 6 terms | Rank N/A | |
| Birthdate 301-1060 | Homeworld Sinott (Magyar 2512 A431742-E) | |
| Skills Admin 0, Athletics 0, Gun Combat 0, Gunner 0, Deception 2, Electronics (computer) 1, Gambler 4, Language 0, Recon 2, Stealth 2, Streetwise 1 | ||
| Possessions wafer jack, submachine gun | Money Cr60,000 | |
| Comments “Lieutenant” Brogue had a long and successful career as a smuggler and occasional thief, evading authorities on both sides of border. | ||
Stanko
Stanko (Magyar 2810 A555649-C). A wet, temperate, medium-sized agricultural world with a thin oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. The Stanko system is located on the Walpurgian Main in Anise subsector. The M1 V primary, Dot, has a very close M9 V companion, Dash, which orbits Dot at 0.04 AU every four days. The rest of the system orbits this stable binary pair.
The mainworld has a resonant orbit at 0.23 AU with an eccentricity of 1.12 and an orbital period of 60.6 days. Each day on Stanko is 121.2 standard days in length. The 100-diameter limit of Dot is 0.47 AU, and a notable secondary world, Unkishi (HCAA524-7), a frozen glacier planet, orbits just outside this limit at 0.62 AU with an orbital period of 262 days. Ships looking for wilderness refueling usually opt for Makinis, the innermost of the system’s five gas giants, which orbits at 0.95 AU.
Known as Ishisi to the Vilani, Stanko has no natural magnetosphere and no known native life; consequently the planet was only lightly settled until the Third Imperium era. In 733 a magnetic dipole shield was deployed at the Stanko L1 Lagrangian point. This shield protects the mainworld from solar wind and radiation, allowing the planet to become an agricultural producer. The growing population never expressed much interest in the nascent Solomani Movement, and Stanko embraced the Imperium following the Solomani Rim War. Since then the mainworld has grown into a representative democracy with a population of 3.28 million, a high law level, and average Imperial tech, and is an important link on the revived Xboat network. Most of Stanko’s inhabitants live in and around the numerous small cities that ring the Sweitny Ocean.
Stanko controls the nearby world of Burvee (Magyar 2809 E557466-7). The current Imperial representative is the Baroness Leonila Folse. Although Stanko does not possess enough population to support its own system defense force, the Imperial Navy considers the world’s strategic location important enough to station a guard ship in system, the INS Anash, an Ershur-class battleship drawn from the 279th BatRon.
| World Map Grid | |
| World Name (and UWP) Stanko A555649-C | Subsector and Sector Location of World Anise/Magyar |
| Date of Preparation 107-1100 | Hexagon Scale (km) 1,005 |
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| IS Form 8-E | Size 5 World Map Grid |
Stanko Downport
The class A starport has no highport, just a large downport located outside the planetary capital of Racimir, which has a population of some 141,000. Allied Prefabricated Ships & Vessels owns and operates the adjacent shipyard, which primarily services small merchant vehicles. The port handles some 3 million displacement tons of cargo and 150,000 passengers per year, worth approximately GCr0.75 revenue.
| Service | Location |
|---|---|
| Allied Prefabricated Ships & Vessels Shipyard | Concourse A |
| Astroburger | Main Court |
| Bang! (self defense supply) | Main Court |
| Cackomart (souvenirs) | Main Court |
| Chapel | Concourse B |
| Customs and Immigration | Concourse A |
| Dear Zosia (bar) | Main Court |
| Downport Data Terminals | Concourse A |
| Downport Freight Docks | Concourse A |
| Downport Message Center | Concourse A |
| Downport Passenger Assistance | Concourse B |
| Emergency Medical Services | Concourse A |
| Extravehicular and More (vacc suits) | Main Court |
| Hiring Hall | Concourse B |
| Hortalez et Cie (financial services) | Concourse B |
| Ikarkagi Loans (financial services) | Main Court |
| Imperial Consulate | Concourse B |
| Imperial Starport Authority | Concourse B |
| Interface Passenger Agents | Concourse B |
| Libertine Hospitality (entertainment) | Concourse A |
| LSP Medical (medical supplies and pharmaceuticals) | Main Court |
| Luksus Grand Hotel and Casinos | Main Court |
| Naasirka Assistants (robots) | Main Court |
| Odeon HoloAmusements | Main Court |
| Omega Fine Clothier | Main Court |
| Outworld Outfitters (survey and exploration equipment) | Main Court |
| Piwiarnia (fine dining) | Main Court |
| Racimir Cargo Market | Concourse A |
| Racimir Charters | Main Court |
| Racimir Transport Hub | Concourse A |
| Recruiting Office | Concourse B |
| Sarshikir (cargo brokers) | Concourse A |
| Scout Lounge | Concourse B |
| Sipsmith (bar) | Main Court |
| Solar Shipping Passenger Service | Concourse B |
| Solomani Association for Culture and Trade | Concourse B |
| Stanko Bureau of Commerce | Concourse B |
| Stanko Office for Tourism | Concourse A |
| Telecommunities (personal electronics) | Main Court |
| The Lone Star | Main Court |
| The Mainframe (computers and software) | Main Court |
| Tranquility Spa | Main Court |
| Transstar Bookings (cross-border passenger service) | Concourse B |
| Travellers’ Aid Society Services | Concourse A |
| Valiant Partners Cargo Brokers | Concourse A |
| Walpurgis Central Trust (commercial banking) | Concourse B |
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