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Having had a hiatus from the FASA game for over fifteen years I am again working on a TOS setting campaign. However, ruleset and time period are probably immaterial.
However I would appreciate the opinions of learned Trek RPG
players here.
PCs ship is just starting to map and explore a new frontier on the open edge of the UFP, away from any other major races/empires. What they uncover is that this used to hold an alien star empire thousands of years ago, which collapsed in on itself in a massive civil war. I haven't decided on the racial details yet, but I want them to be really alien ( not just bumpy head humanoids).
Obviously they will encounter wrecked bases ships, destroyed cities etc all legacies of the war. But they will also discover a range of extremely similar species at the top of the food chain on widely separated worlds in the region. Sometimes, with quite different biochemistry to the lesser species of the world.
The reason ( which they slowly uncover) is that said alien race cultural status was based around the hunting and killing of certain totemic predators, which they genetically engineered to be seeded on a number of "preserve" worlds across their empire. And the legacy of this remains.
However, the ultimate totemic adversary was a sentient humanoid(with bumpy head) which evolved along side them on their home world, but got hunted to extinction. And so whenever they encountered any similar races (which ST is full of) they captured and hunted them also (as the Predator film). Not unsurprisingly the sentient races in the region are pretty frightened of "people from the stars", which should make any a First Contacts rather difficult!
As I said all thoughts gratefully received.
However I would appreciate the opinions of learned Trek RPG
players here.
PCs ship is just starting to map and explore a new frontier on the open edge of the UFP, away from any other major races/empires. What they uncover is that this used to hold an alien star empire thousands of years ago, which collapsed in on itself in a massive civil war. I haven't decided on the racial details yet, but I want them to be really alien ( not just bumpy head humanoids).
Obviously they will encounter wrecked bases ships, destroyed cities etc all legacies of the war. But they will also discover a range of extremely similar species at the top of the food chain on widely separated worlds in the region. Sometimes, with quite different biochemistry to the lesser species of the world.
The reason ( which they slowly uncover) is that said alien race cultural status was based around the hunting and killing of certain totemic predators, which they genetically engineered to be seeded on a number of "preserve" worlds across their empire. And the legacy of this remains.
However, the ultimate totemic adversary was a sentient humanoid(with bumpy head) which evolved along side them on their home world, but got hunted to extinction. And so whenever they encountered any similar races (which ST is full of) they captured and hunted them also (as the Predator film). Not unsurprisingly the sentient races in the region are pretty frightened of "people from the stars", which should make any a First Contacts rather difficult!
As I said all thoughts gratefully received.
