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Uh, no. That's not how they work. When the storms hit, no travel at all outside of the enclaves. You get enough warning to race home but you don't get to travel through the storms.

I'll tell you the storm rules when I'm ready for this to be worked on.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 05, 2019 - 01:12 am: Edit

Sigh...

A decade of not reading the topic allowed it to be hijacked.

Sigh.

No Tholians, no Hydrans, no Omegas.

Seltorians? Peladine? Borak? I do not think so.

Andros, Jindarians, Carnivons, yes.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Monday, August 05, 2019 - 02:47 pm: Edit

A few thoughts for (much) later consideration:

*It may be interesting to see a future Sargasso hex map use something akin to a "traffic light" system: with "green" for hexes which always remain open (inside each enclave); "orange" for hexes which are engulfed during some storm periods but not in others; and "red" for hexes which are always caught up in the storms. Of course, one would not literally have to use these colours on the hex map itself, if some other means of marking these three categories of hexes apart could be made to exist. In any event, this might make each time period more distinct map-wise, as a given empire would not be able to predict how large (or small) their home enclave will be during the next storm cycle.
ALL GOOD OR ALL BAD, DEPENDING ON THE YEAR. THERE ARE NO "SOMETIMES" ZONES. EVERYTHING IS A SOMETIMES ZONE. THE ENCLAVES ARE FAIRLY SMALL. MAYBE 1, MAYBE 4, MAYBE 7 HEXES.

*In the case of the Carnivons, I wonder if it might be as well to try and leverage the material from Module C6 as much as possible, with appropriate considerations for how their tech base might evolve due to local conditions. In other words, perhaps their "Middle Years" hulls (CA, DD, etc.) look more or less the same as they do on the C6 SSDs; but, as was the case in the FRA update file in Captain's Log #53, perhaps certain "modern" technologies (such as range-5 transporters or mines with radius-1 detection range) would need to be developed independently, or perhaps captured from one or more of the local empires the Carnivons might find themselves battling during the "calm" periods.
HOW ABOUT YOU LEAVE THE OBVIOUS FOR ME TO SORT OUT?

*It would be interesting to see how any Jindarian Caravans present might operate, in contrast to their counterparts in Alpha, Omega, or the LMC. Perhaps, rather than operating entirely alone on the one end, or defending a fixed "Freehold" on the other, certain loose groups of Caravans operate across a certain umber of enclaves at a time, with the occasional migration of a given Caravan from one enclave to another? If, indeed, the "calm" periods last long enough for the Jindarians to move their asteroid ships from one to another without getting caught by the onset of the next storm. (Or perhaps they use metal-hull ships for such migrations, and prepare new asteroids for use as habitats upon each new arrival?)
UNNECESSARY COMMENT. LOTS OF THINGS MIGHT BE INTERESTING.

*It might be interesting to clarify where any would-be Andromedan invasion of Sargasso had set out from. If the Andros used the Lesser Magellanic Cloud as they did for Alpha and Omega, that might enable for a Sargasso equivalent of the mission which saw the GSX Sakharov follow a dormant RTN route from the LMC to Omega in the Y210s. (One could imagine the Kzinti and Lyran reaction once they find out about any would-be Carnivon survivors over in the Sargasso Storm Zone.) But, on the other hand, if some other satellite galaxy was used by the Andros as a staging point for any of the "far side" galactic octants, some other means might need to be found in order to account for how any data in the Air Force data tapes was acquired.
IF THERE IS ONE, THESE DETAILS WILL BE MADE KNOWN, OBVIOUSLY. ANOTHER USELESS AND OBVIOUS COMMENT.

By A. David Merritt (Adm) on Monday, August 05, 2019 - 04:46 pm: Edit

A thought for the Jindarians.

Are there locations they refuse to enter during calm periods, because the risk of getting stuck there during a storm period is too high? Either lack of long term resources, or being cornered and destroyed by locals.
IN A STORM PERIOD, EVERYONE NOT IN AN ENCLAVE IS DEAD, SO THEY WILL ENTER THE ONLY PLACE THEY CAN STAY ALIVE. THEY MIGHT HAVE BETTER OR WORSER RELATIONS WITH SOME ENCLAVES.