Coventry--a campaign twist

Starship777 · 02-21-2019, 04:55 AM

What if Infinity didn't build Coventry base but instead merely found it? A vast complex of hardened concrete walls and towers that looks like a mashup of a castle and a bunker that could easily be mistaken for a human construction. Except in certain places where undecipherable alien writing is inscribed. Estimates at how old the structure is range from several thousand to several million years.

It was just a shell at first. Infinity had to supply all of the furnishings. Luckily, lumber is plentiful nearby. Things like doors, tables, chairs, cabinets, and such were all made locally. Outside the walls a town developed to supply the fortress. The people here are not prisoners but volunteers who wanted a new life. They live a mostly TL4 agrarian lifestyle. In exchange for goods and services these 'townies' receive TL8 medical care and other things that have to be imported from off world.

The base itself forms concentric rings of security. The deeper one goes the higher the security. The outermost ring contains the conveyor landing pad and support staff hospital. The prisoners here are the non-violent kind. There is a nightly curfew but they have many privileges. The middle ring holds the violent offenders and prisoner medical care center. They have lockdown every night and some privileges. The innermost ring is the maximum security area. The worst offenders are kept here with very few privileges.

Infinity planners have always been uneasy about Coventry. Because of its mysterious origin they could never be sure how safe it really was. The project was originally approved because it was a quick and easy solution to the problem of how to contain world jumpers. Since then it has suffered from scope creep to become a permanent prison facility. Many members of Infinity leadership are dissatisfied with the situation but are unsure what can be done. Repatriating prisoners is out of the question. But keeping them all in Coventry forever will eventually become untenable too. Current thinking is that prisoners will remain until they have become rehabilitated at which point they will be sent to an Infinity colony world. So far no one has been deemed ready to leave by the on-site Coventry management staff.

02-21-2019, 04:55 AM	#14
Starship777 Join Date: Jan 2019	Re: Coventry--a campaign twist What if Infinity didn't build Coventry base but instead merely found it? A vast complex of hardened concrete walls and towers that looks like a mashup of a castle and a bunker that could easily be mistaken for a human construction. Except in certain places where undecipherable alien writing is inscribed. Estimates at how old the structure is range from several thousand to several million years. It was just a shell at first. Infinity had to supply all of the furnishings. Luckily, lumber is plentiful nearby. Things like doors, tables, chairs, cabinets, and such were all made locally. Outside the walls a town developed to supply the fortress. The people here are not prisoners but volunteers who wanted a new life. They live a mostly TL4 agrarian lifestyle. In exchange for goods and services these 'townies' receive TL8 medical care and other things that have to be imported from off world. The base itself forms concentric rings of security. The deeper one goes the higher the security. The outermost ring contains the conveyor landing pad and support staff hospital. The prisoners here are the non-violent kind. There is a nightly curfew but they have many privileges. The middle ring holds the violent offenders and prisoner medical care center. They have lockdown every night and some privileges. The innermost ring is the maximum security area. The worst offenders are kept here with very few privileges. Infinity planners have always been uneasy about Coventry. Because of its mysterious origin they could never be sure how safe it really was. The project was originally approved because it was a quick and easy solution to the problem of how to contain world jumpers. Since then it has suffered from scope creep to become a permanent prison facility. Many members of Infinity leadership are dissatisfied with the situation but are unsure what can be done. Repatriating prisoners is out of the question. But keeping them all in Coventry forever will eventually become untenable too. Current thinking is that prisoners will remain until they have become rehabilitated at which point they will be sent to an Infinity colony world. So far no one has been deemed ready to leave by the on-site Coventry management staff.