profoundlynerdy

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Black Ships? (programming.dev)
 

What is the narrative purpose of the Black Ships in the Traveller mythology? When were they first encountered? Are they supposed to represent an ancient threat, like B5's Shadows? Are they technologically superior to the Third Imperium and thus an invasion risk, like Star Trek's Borg? Are they something you throw at your players when they're "doing it wrong" to discourage a given course of action? Help me understand where they fit into the setting.

Did Traveller have its own Usenet and/or Echomail groups back in the day? in c/Traveller@ttrpg.network
[–] profoundlynerdy@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Chat GPT says rec.games.frp.traveller existed. I can't find an archive of it. It seems neither Eternal September nor Planet Usenet subscribe to it.

Google Groups bans it for some reason, which suggests it may have actually existed, as opposed to being an AI hallucination, but that's not conclusive.

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Did Traveller have its own Usenet and/or Echomail groups back in the day? (programming.dev)
 

Basically the title. I don't see a Traveller group on Eternal September, so I suspect even if it was a thing on Usenet, it's not anymore. I'm not sure how to perform a more thorough check off the top of my head.

I have no idea about Echomail.

If they existed, what were these communities like? Do they still exist and I just didn't find them when I looked?