capi3101
Admiral
Afternoon, gentlemen.
The proofreading of Enyo is well underway at this point and I figured it was high time to begin a discussion of Elegy. I've pretty well settled on the notion that this will be a campaign wherein the characters are Kilrathi, set in Epsilon Sector from mid 2680 to very very early 2681, and that it will be centered on the character of Krahtagh "Bloodeye" N’Ryllis and the Demon Eye Pack mentioned in Waypoint! (p. 76 of the Prophecy Gold documentation).
I've had a great many thoughts about how I might go about setting the story up. WCRPG's timeline incorporates some events that were going to be used in Privateer 3, but for the most part it follows Star*Soldier's interpretation of events - that "reservation worlds" were setup for the Kilrathi at the war's end, but by 2680 the number of reservation worlds had been reduced to three (from 50 in 2670). It's also mentioned that there were charges of neglect and cruel treatment...which is what lead me to think "what if the Bloodeye character was kind of like a cross between a ronin - say, Yamada Nagamasa - and a Native American figure such as Sitting Bull?". I mean, who is a pirate? It really matters who you ask...Captain Morgan was a privateer, an Admiral in the Royal British Navy; to his victims, he was a pirate...
So the way I see it, N’Ryllis is one of several warriors whose liege lord is killed in the Temblor Raid (or perhaps shortly thereafter), and for some reason he either can't or doesn't commit zu'kara (like Kirha) and winds up on one of those reservation worlds (if his master committed zu'kara on hearing of the surrender, it's conceivable that he was ordered not to prior to that happening - I may be going too Japanese here with what I know about the comparisons between Kilrathi culture and bushido and seppuku; just a thought). Seeing everybody around him being mistreated and starving to death, he makes the fateful decision to further disgrace himself for the good of those around him, and begin terrorizing the spacelanes in Epsilon Sector. Of course, we all know how the story ends thanks to Waypoint!, but I see his execution as part of a larger plan for this character to finally rectify his loss of honor (400 stay behind so that thousands might get away...).
The campaign is not going to end happily, let's put it that way.
Actually...it occurs to me -- what if the reservation world were being shut down, and for some reason N’Ryllis didn't want to leave for some reason, and there was some kind of incident?
I think my big problem with this story is going to be a tendency to think like a human instead of a Cat......
So, what do you guys think? Does this sound like it might make for an interesting story?
I've done Enyo and Vespus as minature campaigns; I'm thinking for the kind of story I want to tell and the scale on which I want to tell it, I'm going to have to go all out with Elegy...a full campaign setting with all the trimmings. The first place I can begin with that is maps. I'd like to create a full map of Epsilon Sector - doing it up Privateer style. That means I'll need a list of known major locales in Epsilon (Star*Soldier will be helpful here of course). We'll get to make up stuff on top of the known stuff (which equals fun in my book). I'm also going to want a list of potential factions - UBW is going to be the big one obviously, as will the Kilrathi Refugees, the Kilrathi Council (Melek's bunch; Pasqual is in Epsilon), Confederation, Lance stragglers perhaps, the Guilds, other pirate groups, the Retros perhaps...
Ships are another thing. Military that's no problem; we know what ships are being used at the start of Prophecy the next year and so we can just use them. Civvies are where we hit a bit of an unknown; it makes sense that there'd be the same bunch of ships you'd see in Gemini, plus Clarksons and Pelicans at this point - should there be more? I had thought about maybe kinda throwing in a few of the Star Citizen designs...
Well, this post is long enough, so let's discuss.
The proofreading of Enyo is well underway at this point and I figured it was high time to begin a discussion of Elegy. I've pretty well settled on the notion that this will be a campaign wherein the characters are Kilrathi, set in Epsilon Sector from mid 2680 to very very early 2681, and that it will be centered on the character of Krahtagh "Bloodeye" N’Ryllis and the Demon Eye Pack mentioned in Waypoint! (p. 76 of the Prophecy Gold documentation).
I've had a great many thoughts about how I might go about setting the story up. WCRPG's timeline incorporates some events that were going to be used in Privateer 3, but for the most part it follows Star*Soldier's interpretation of events - that "reservation worlds" were setup for the Kilrathi at the war's end, but by 2680 the number of reservation worlds had been reduced to three (from 50 in 2670). It's also mentioned that there were charges of neglect and cruel treatment...which is what lead me to think "what if the Bloodeye character was kind of like a cross between a ronin - say, Yamada Nagamasa - and a Native American figure such as Sitting Bull?". I mean, who is a pirate? It really matters who you ask...Captain Morgan was a privateer, an Admiral in the Royal British Navy; to his victims, he was a pirate...
So the way I see it, N’Ryllis is one of several warriors whose liege lord is killed in the Temblor Raid (or perhaps shortly thereafter), and for some reason he either can't or doesn't commit zu'kara (like Kirha) and winds up on one of those reservation worlds (if his master committed zu'kara on hearing of the surrender, it's conceivable that he was ordered not to prior to that happening - I may be going too Japanese here with what I know about the comparisons between Kilrathi culture and bushido and seppuku; just a thought). Seeing everybody around him being mistreated and starving to death, he makes the fateful decision to further disgrace himself for the good of those around him, and begin terrorizing the spacelanes in Epsilon Sector. Of course, we all know how the story ends thanks to Waypoint!, but I see his execution as part of a larger plan for this character to finally rectify his loss of honor (400 stay behind so that thousands might get away...).
The campaign is not going to end happily, let's put it that way.
Actually...it occurs to me -- what if the reservation world were being shut down, and for some reason N’Ryllis didn't want to leave for some reason, and there was some kind of incident?
I think my big problem with this story is going to be a tendency to think like a human instead of a Cat......
So, what do you guys think? Does this sound like it might make for an interesting story?
I've done Enyo and Vespus as minature campaigns; I'm thinking for the kind of story I want to tell and the scale on which I want to tell it, I'm going to have to go all out with Elegy...a full campaign setting with all the trimmings. The first place I can begin with that is maps. I'd like to create a full map of Epsilon Sector - doing it up Privateer style. That means I'll need a list of known major locales in Epsilon (Star*Soldier will be helpful here of course). We'll get to make up stuff on top of the known stuff (which equals fun in my book). I'm also going to want a list of potential factions - UBW is going to be the big one obviously, as will the Kilrathi Refugees, the Kilrathi Council (Melek's bunch; Pasqual is in Epsilon), Confederation, Lance stragglers perhaps, the Guilds, other pirate groups, the Retros perhaps...
Ships are another thing. Military that's no problem; we know what ships are being used at the start of Prophecy the next year and so we can just use them. Civvies are where we hit a bit of an unknown; it makes sense that there'd be the same bunch of ships you'd see in Gemini, plus Clarksons and Pelicans at this point - should there be more? I had thought about maybe kinda throwing in a few of the Star Citizen designs...
Well, this post is long enough, so let's discuss.
