Star Saga

Star Saga! Huzzah!

Characters and Goals

• Valentine Stewart (inky, red token): Stylish playboy with a ship and in some kind of trouble, looking for three cargo units of Super Slip
• Corin Stoneseeker (Ghogg, blue token): Seeking a stone
• Jean G. Clerc (Jota, green token): Engineer looking for cool alien ship-upgrade technologies (specifically a tractor beam, photon torpedoes (got 'em!), and a ship shield generator)
• Laran Darkwatch (Matthew, purple token)
• Professor Lee Dambroke (vimes, black token), xenobiologist seeking proof of alien life in the form of wacky abilities
  • can build a ship shield generator with one of each phase steel, warp core, munitions, fluids, radioactives, fiber
• MJ Turner (josh_g, yellow token): ace pilot and all-around hotshot, sekritly hunting an infamous space pirate

Planets and Marketplaces

• Types of Commodity: Computers, Crystals, Culture, Fiber, Fluids, Food, Fuel, Iron, Medicine, Munitions, Radioactives, Tools

Central

• Bugeye - 153
  • Sells fuel
  • Includes scientific mission studying genetics of bugs

• Crater - 67
  • Market
    • 2 tools for 1 culture
    • 2 tools for 1 food
    • 1 tools for 1 fuel
    • 1 tools for 1 iron
    • 1 tools for 1 medicine
  • Shipyard
    • Entanglement mines: 1 food, 1 fiber
    • Warp winder: 1 culture, 1 fluids
    • Pulse inverter: 1 munitions, 1 fuel
    • Boarding robots: 1 radioactives, 1 medicine, 1 iron

• Wellmet - 110
  • Wellmet Market
    • 1 Munitions for 1 Culture
    • 3 Munitions for 1 Fuel
    • 1 Munitions for 1 Iron
    • 1 Munitions for 1 Medicine
    • 3 Munitions for 1 Radioactives
  • Wellmet personal munitions:
    • Trade 1 Piercer - 1 Computer 1 Medicine
    • Trade 1 Exploder - 1 Munitions
    • Trade 1 Laser Reflector - 1 Fuel
    • Trade 1 Force Field - 1 Crystal 1 Culture 1 Fiber 1 Iron
  • Wellmet Torrence Family trading
    • Interested in Primordial Soup, Super Slip, Warp Core, Particle Catalyst, Phase Steel, Gradient Filter, or Synthetic Genius.
    • Give them one of the above and they will trade for any 3 of Computers, Crystals, Culture, Fiber, Fluids, Food, Fuel, Iron, Medicine, Munitions, Radioactives, and Tools.
  • Wellmet Slow Eddie Falstaff
    • There's a trade triangle. At the Ghost Worlds connection, haulers take bulk cargo (food and chemicals) out to the Ghost Worlds, and bring back rare cargo (wine, clothes, meat, glass, chips, ship parts). At the Space connection, prospectors go into space and bring back space stuff (alien stuff, alien materials, phase steel, anti-inertial) and sell it to the smugglers. At the Boundary connection, smugglers take alien stuff to the Nine Worlds and swap it for bulk cargo.

• Supa - 218
  • 2 Food for 1 Crystals
  • 2 Food for 1 Fluids
  • 3 Food for 1 Fuel

• Moiran - 118
  • Market
    • 1 crystal for 1 fiber
    • 1 crystal for 1 tools
    • 2 crystals for 1 food
    • 3 crystals for 1 computer
  • Shipyard
    • Photon torpedos - 1 Munitions
    • Magnetic deflectors - 1 Food, 1 Iron
    • Auxiliary rockets - 1 Medicine, 1 Fiber
    • Turbo navigation - 1 Computer, 1 Munitions, 1 Radioactives, 1 Tools
  • Tony the Shark
    • (Warning, can meet mugger at place to buy weapons.)
    • Blaster - 1 Fluids, 1 Tools
    • Neuron whip - 1 Computers, 1 Munitions
    • Missile toes - 1 Fiber, 1 Radioactives
    • Disintegration gun - 1 Computers, 1 Culture, 1 Food, 1 Medicine
  • Phase Steel Factory
    • Phase steel - 2 Computers + 2 Food + 1 Fiber + 1 Tools

• Medsun - 63
  • 2 Culture for 1 Fiber
  • 1 Culture for 1 Fuel
  • 3 Culture for 1 Radioactives

• Cathedral - 288
  • Offers Fiber

• Para-Para - 107
  • 1 Fuel for 1 Computers
  • 2 Fuel for 1 Munitions
  • 3 Fuel for 1 Crystals

North

• Ascension - 17
  • Earth-like. Contains possibly intelligent mantis-like aliens who don't speak Earth Standard.

• Gen - 12
  • Market
    • 2 Culture for 1 Computers
    • 2 Culture for 1 Fiber
    • 3 Culture for 1 Fluids
  • Temple where they inquire, "How does one know the way to truth?"
  • City of Markov which offers LARPing

• Storage Station 7 - 1
  • DANGER - causes ship crash

South

• Baphi - 247
  • Green and hospitable world, no apparent civilization
  • Abandoned colony
  • Wreckage may include an alien exercise machine granting enhanced speed

• Jaquar - 241
  • Darscian world - need to learn High Darscian (as above)

East

Hemidore - 163

Firth - 226

West

• Fiara - 145
  • Darscian world - need to learn High Darscian (7 turns with telepathy or universal translator, otherwise 14)
  • Given technology and secret of space flight by "The Mentors" tens of thousands of years ago
  • Market
    • 3 Fiber for 1 Computers
    • 1 Fiber for 1 Crystals
    • 2 Fiber for 1 Medicine
  • Reaching anti-gravity facility requires crawling through high-gravity section, moving quickly required (?)

• Gnarsh - 91
  • At war. Attempting to land leads to ship-to-ship combat.

• Withal - 137
  • Market in orbiting space station, doing anything on planet requires teaching Withelians Earth Standard (7 turns)
  • 2 Computer + 1 Fiber + 1 Medicine -> 4-space cargo drone, will warp to markets anywhere you've visited, only takes one turn no matter how far away
  • Market
    • 1 Iron for 1 Crystals
    • 3 Iron for 1 Food
    • 2 Iron for 1 Medicine

Unknown or general information

• Rialla - ???
  • Can trade for Computers

• Darscian worlds
  • Darscold (original planet), Golden Age, trades Culture
  • Fiara, high gravity with anti-gravity technology, trades Fiber
  • Gazan, unstable with planet-quakes, trades Iron
  • Ioreth, poisonous, trades Medicine
  • Jaquar, strewn across cluster of asteroids, trades Crystals

• Organu - ???
  • Offers Munitions

Ship-to-ship items

• Attack
  • Combat
    • Boarding Robots - Computer-controlled attack robots that can occupy and overwhelm an opposing ship
    • Pressor Beam - A ship-to-ship weapon that repulses another ship away from you, with either a descrete "punch" or a steady "push".
  • Contact
    • Ram - A ship-to-ship weapon that allows one to attack an enemy ship by actually crashing into it. The ram is primitive in concept, but highly effective in aciton, particularly if the enemy is taken by surprise. The device itself is a large metal plow mounted on a ship's hull and structurally reinforced to withstand the impact of the collision.
    • Tractor Beam - A ship-to-ship weapon that attracts another ship towards you, with either a sharp "tug" or a steady "pull".
  • Projectile
    • Dimensional Eliminator - A ship-to-ship weapon that folds one of the spacial dimensions out of an enemy ship, causing the enemy ship to flatten out and disappear
    • Hyperbeam - A powerful weapon that shoots a beam of energy through hyperspace, bypassing all normal defenses
    • Nuclear Rockets - Guided missiles carrying gigaton-power nuclear warheads. Compared to more modern weapons, nuclear rockets are slow and inaccurate, but if they reach their target they are still very deadly.
    • Phase Cannon - A ship-to-ship weapon that shoots a steady, piercing energy beam across space.
    • Photon Torpedos - Small but powerful energy packets that travel at faster-than-light speeds across space and explode at a predetermined target.
    • Plasma Beam - A thin, very accurate, lower-powered energy beam useful in attacking small targets.
  • Special
    • Anti-Gravity Ray - A device used to counteract the effects of gravity
    • Black Cloud - A smokescreen of obscuring particles that blocks the functioning of an enemy ship's sensors in a region of space
    • Confuse Enemy Computers - The ability to control or misdirect an enemy ship's computer with transmissions from your own ship's computer
    • Entanglement Mines - Space buoys that, when triggered, project strong hypermagnetic forces, making it difficult for a spaceship to fly past
• Defense
  • Armor
    • Curvature Inductor - A device attached to a ship's hull that creates a curve in the fabric of space, causing matter and energy traveling towards the ship to change direction and veer away
    • Magnetic Deflectors - Powerful magnetic fields projected in front of a ship's hull to absorb energy attacks
    • Ship Shield Generator - An extremely useful device that projects a protective energy field around a ship to absorb both physical and energy attacks.
    • Stress Bulkheads - Extra supports for a spaceship's hull to help it absorb the impact of explosions, collisions, energy blasts, etc.
  • Mobility
    • Auxiliary Rockets - Extra thrusters that give a spaceship more speed and maneuverability
    • Turbo Navigation - Computer algorithms that enhance the speed and maneuverability of a spaceship by carefully coordinating the drive systems, power generator, directional controller, and other components.
    • Warp Winder - A device that dramatically increases a ship's speed for a short time, by initiating and controlling a feedback loop in the warp drive.
  • Special
    • Anti-Energy Field - An item that causes all energy within a region of space to be neutralized
    • E.C.M. - (Electronic Counter Measures) Jamming, interference, and other electronic mechanisms for disrupting the functioning of another ship's navigation, sensor, and computer systems
    • Pulse Inverter - A ship defense system that reverses the direction of incoming energy beams
    • Stealth System - Technology that electromagnetically camouflages a spaceship, making it difficult for enemy sensors to detect.
    • Stress Field - A weapon that creates powerful shock waves in space, alternately pressuring and depressuring an enemy ship's hull and internal supports.
    • Technology Nullifier - A device that prevents the operation of all electronic equipment in its area of effect.