020-1104 Hkyaaikh #Foreven
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Churr. According to the Churr clan, the earthquake and its impacts killed some 2,248 aslan, and another 650,000 needed aslanitarian assistance. In the face of the tragedy, neighboring Kuzu and Shukkikat clans have pledged aid, eager to be owed favors from the militant Churr. The influential Pektel clan released a statement expressing sympathy, but has yet to commit to assistance.
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Traveller News Service is now operational.

Loads as many sector UWPs as I want.
Reads messages from a file.
Tells me when each article reached target system.

So if the game starts on 001-1105, last two articles haven’t arrived yet.

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Prototyping my Traveller News Service distribution utility. Very barebones so far.

Need to add:

Static trade routes (connections that will span larger distances).
Store message history in database.
Chance for distribution to off route worlds.
Neighboring sectors.

But pretty good for a couple hours hacking.

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015-1104 Lyenner/Uarnuan (Foreven 0236)

Ruins from an unknown civilization discovered in Lyenner belt. Hiver titanium miners made the discovery during a routine excavation on a new asteroid. Preliminarily examination reveals the artifacts date from before Humaniti arrived in the sector.

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Something mysterious happened in Lyenner, a modest, low tech, Hiver asteroid colony.

Interesting enough to be reported by the Traveller News Service, but mysterious enough to be unresolved if PCs want to investigate a year later.

Any ideas?

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There’s a million dungeon generators out there, but what I really need is an interstellar news generator.

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Been reading the Traveller Adventure to find ideas for future games. Buried in chapter 17 there’s a procedure for determining how long it takes for messages to get around.

It’s very neat, but probably way too time consuming for more than a few messages. I’m tempted to automate it. But that’s probably crazy talk. It would be neat to have a way to know exactly when news gets to them. Of course, I’d need to invent news alerts a lot.

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