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 Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject: Codename Veil |
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I am very excited by the way that Traveller is expanding beyond it's core OTU under Mongoose's leadership. With good third party support there are non trad Trav settings around/in development.. and of course Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog and shortly the ABC Warriors.
Of the plans for next year I have to say that Codename Veil tickles my X-files/Delta Green/Warehouse13/James Bond bone..
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Codename Veil
An unusual approach to Traveller, Codename Veil is set just a few years in our future, and is a property that Mongoose has had under wraps for more than seven years now.
Players will create veteran characters drawn from the intelligence services from around the world (such as the CIA, MI6, Mossad, and so forth – maybe even the Los Angeles CTU. . .), with the Traveller character creation system drawing up detailed events of their secretive past lives. These characters have been recruited into an international organisation, classified ultra-secret at the highest levels, charged with defending Earth against the predations of a recently discovered alien threat.
Initial contact with alien forces has determined that they are incredibly powerful and likely hostile, though very little is known about them – in fact, the alien forces will be different for every campaign, as there is a back end system for the referee that defines the nature and scope of the alien threat, based upon the players’ own decisions, actions, and successes.
Naturally, with such a threat hanging over Earth, the masses can never come to learn about the alien menace, lest panic sweep entire nations, destroy the current world order, and the planet be left wide open to attack. The players must not only learn to operate in secret but to cover their tracks, all the while accepting that the organisation they are working for can, by necessity, be a cruel and callous one. Their missions may range from investigating possible abductions in the heart of a major city to racing through a tropical rainforest in an attempt to recover a downed alien craft before the homeland military discovers it, all the while hunted by an alien survivor whose technology makes a mockery of the players’ own resources.
Codename Veil will be appearing towards the end of the year. |
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That does look very interesting - I'll add it to my list! 
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