Coventry--a campaign twist - Page 2

YankeeGamer · 02-19-2019, 10:06 PM

I didn't say that it was a vast prison; people are free to wander off. The Infinity HQ would need to be well defended, as who knows what mischief smart folks with even civilian moderate level technology. It IS a prison planet, with Infinite HQ as the gateway. The demographics would , IMVHO, be clear if a spacefaring civilization uses such, like the Peep prison camp on an island.

Rupert · 02-19-2019, 10:39 PM

I'd expect Infinity to have tossed a few weather observation sats and some spy/survey sats up (or just pushed them through from Homeline already in orbit), and they'd have some fairly sensitive parachronic sensors on board. They might invest in some basic communications sats as well, in case they needed to travel for some reason. These could be all-in-one devices in middling orbits (6-12 hours, highly inclined), as constant coverage isn't needed (unless they're really paranoid about someone jury-rigging up parachronic devices). They'd all be pointing downwards, of course, so they wouldn't see a spaceship that came in quietly.

I think it would take a while for alien observers to know that people were arriving and leaving without spaceships. Aside from staff being cycled in and out next to nobody leaves and not many extra people arrive. That it's a 'open prison' would, as you say in your original post, be pretty obvious - a single high-tech enclave with serious security and high population density, and a low population extending out from it is a fairly easy thing to spot.

YankeeGamer · 02-20-2019, 01:01 PM

If space drives emit something that triggers a parachronic detector, or parachronic detectors trigger passive sensors with something like thei8r hyperspace detectors--gets interesting.

I'd expect a survey ship to jump in fairly far away from the planet--they'd know before jumping that there's an inhabitable world, I think. We can detect many planets now.

02-19-2019, 10:06 PM	#1
YankeeGamer Join Date: Dec 2017	Re: Coventry--a campaign twist I didn't say that it was a vast prison; people are free to wander off. The Infinity HQ would need to be well defended, as who knows what mischief smart folks with even civilian moderate level technology. It IS a prison planet, with Infinite HQ as the gateway. The demographics would , IMVHO, be clear if a spacefaring civilization uses such, like the Peep prison camp on an island.

02-19-2019, 10:39 PM	#2
Rupert Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wellington, NZ	Re: Coventry--a campaign twist I'd expect Infinity to have tossed a few weather observation sats and some spy/survey sats up (or just pushed them through from Homeline already in orbit), and they'd have some fairly sensitive parachronic sensors on board. They might invest in some basic communications sats as well, in case they needed to travel for some reason. These could be all-in-one devices in middling orbits (6-12 hours, highly inclined), as constant coverage isn't needed (unless they're really paranoid about someone jury-rigging up parachronic devices). They'd all be pointing downwards, of course, so they wouldn't see a spaceship that came in quietly. I think it would take a while for alien observers to know that people were arriving and leaving without spaceships. Aside from staff being cycled in and out next to nobody leaves and not many extra people arrive. That it's a 'open prison' would, as you say in your original post, be pretty obvious - a single high-tech enclave with serious security and high population density, and a low population extending out from it is a fairly easy thing to spot. __________________ Rupert Boleyn "A pessimist is an optimist with a sense of history."

02-20-2019, 01:01 PM	#3
YankeeGamer Join Date: Dec 2017	Re: Coventry--a campaign twist If space drives emit something that triggers a parachronic detector, or parachronic detectors trigger passive sensors with something like thei8r hyperspace detectors--gets interesting. I'd expect a survey ship to jump in fairly far away from the planet--they'd know before jumping that there's an inhabitable world, I think. We can detect many planets now.