 July 22, 2013 - 4:13am | #5 from the sample adventure states "The bodies of two yazirians in Hepplewhite , Inc. work uniforms are lying here." From this we learn that Hepplewhite is simply incorporated- not perhaps a mega-corp interesting that it specifies "work uniforms" as if there might be more than one kind of uniform. This and the fact that they are specified to be yazirians, then brings to mind Hentz and Fo1 and the "everyone wears a uniform to show their place in society thing". Is Hepplewhite a Hentz based company with mostly yazirian personnel? If so then it would be a subisdy of GODco? and just what is it doing so far from home in Zebulon system? EDIT: I just checked and it looks like everyone on board the ship was yazirian so what do we make of the Hentz angle? Were the crew of the Hepplewhite separatist from Fo1? They had a child with them which fits the profile of someone fleeing from authority and taking the only thing truly precious to them- family. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 22, 2013 - 6:30am | Hepplewhite doesn't sound very yazirianish to me. But what if Hepple was the yazirian portion of the name and white was tacked on to the company name like White Star line? Thus Hepplewhite was simply a Pangal translation of the company name. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 July 22, 2013 - 1:23pm | ...it looks like everyone on board the ship was yazirian ..... They had a child with them which fits the profile
of someone fleeing from authority.... Could be the ship was run by members of one family or clan. Time flies when your having rum. Im a government employee, I dont goof-off. I constructively abuse my time. |
July 22, 2013 - 1:57pm | Oooopsk, my bad I missed the dead human pilot this morning. Still there are 3 dead yazirians and One dead human plus a yaz child trapped in the landing gear. I still like the Hentz/yazirian angle for this despite the human pilot. one possible PC tie in could be the pilot is related to a human PC. pilot is a replacement for the regular pilot who was recently killed. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 July 22, 2013 - 9:26pm | How's this for mud against the wall. Hepplewhite, Hepple is a yazirian name, White is a human name. The corporation is a startup funded by yazirians from the Family of One, GodCo and a human business man fron Truanes Star who had the ship and experience with Zebulon. The Family of One and GodCo would be very interested in the erona bio-evolution tech and eager to get it before the Govorners aided the erona in establishing UPF patents on their tech. -iggy |
July 23, 2013 - 9:38am | Alright I like this: White is the dead human pilot and the 3 adult yazirians are form a small clan called Hepple. White is from Truane's Star as you suggest. He met a yaz from clan Hepple while on Pale during the SW1 where they bonded as brothers in arms. After the war they pooled their resources and bought a ship (much like the Firefly story and tried to make a go of the shipping business). White was eventually taken into the clan. If the clan is from Hentz as suggested before then White is barred from travelling to the surface as per cannon material. This creates a complication for him/them which is ok to entertain as part of the back story here. If its not from Hentz then the company must be large enough to warrent uniforms otherwise a small informal company would not bother with the expense. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 July 26, 2013 - 9:29am | You may be reading too much into this. One dead human does not make a company not a part of Godco. Since starship skills are so hard to get he could have just been a specialist hired for his skills. Since we don't know what the cargo was or the ship's mission we can only make assumptions. Possibly they are a company that collects genetic samples for Godco or specialize message/cargo delivery system or for fun adventures a company that runs errands for Godco that Godco doesn't what to be associated with which is why Mr. Phelps was the pilot. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
February 16, 2017 - 9:29am | So in another thread I've been exploring Byzantine style corporate plots with the idea that the Hepplewhite Inc is a small innocent shipper caught in the middle of two different plots. 1. Where the mechanons are angry about megacorp activity and are ramping up to the Mechanon Revolt 2. A corporation is dabbling in illegal sathar tech and research to get ahead and will need to keep that quiet but a corporate spook (Mr Dral in Black) is looking to uncover it to either embarrass the corporation behind the front or gain a marker for use in the future. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 16, 2017 - 9:35am | To that end they were former CFM crew who got a down payment on a system ship and became shippers in Volturnus. Surface to orbit mostly at Volturnus but with the occasional run to Ankor. They have acted as a front for their former CFM captain and he was sponsoring their application to join the CFM. They were all set to sell their system ship and upgrade to interstellar as part of Their application to join the CFM. The orphan Rinny will inherit the insurance pay out of 1million credits for ship. And he can be a long running NPC contact. The good news for Rinny's sake is the ship is close to paid off so the money can go into trust and be used to support and educate him. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 20, 2017 - 10:51am | I like the fact you are resurrecting this adventure thread for publication. If you still want to use the GodCo angle too, perhaps the ship is in the Volturnus system because of terraforming operations for Anker. Maybe the slime bug is some sort of genetically engineeered organism that GodCo uses to convert hostile worlds into a terrestial world. The bug is supposed to be engineered to die off after so many generations so they don't harm the new garden world. It was being brought to Volturnus for some more tweaking before being sent to Anker. Joe Cabadas |
February 20, 2017 - 12:20pm | Actually Bio-Gen Inc is figuring large in two different adventures I'm working on so I'm dropping GODco and making Bio-Gen a a front business with the CEO a sathar agent. information about them should come out during or after the mechanon uprising that seemingly forces Bio-gen out of business. however, a secret laboratory is still in operation and stuff is happening there. So I'm likeing Hepplewhite as a small outfit that is the victim of a bombing in larger schemes. Bio-Gen could have a GODco connection but GODco and Fo1 really are yazirian centric so it doesn't feel right to me. Perhaps there could have been a legit business connection but GODco and Fo1 will fall all over themselves to disavow Bio-Gen as the truth comes out. Of course they would still do that if there was an illigit connection too so... my leaning is GODco is clean but I of course leave it that other referees could do something different. And who knows when I get back to the other adventure I may change my mind on this as well. Maybe the GODco connection can be a catalyst for stuff happening but I dont really need to explore that now. PCs investigation is triggered by mechanon bomb which was caused by their anger at perceived treaty violations of "new" biologicial life being developed. PCs investigation should uncover Bio-Gen illegal activity and the imminent uprising by the mechanons. Once the Mechanon Uprising is triggered that will dominate the PCs attention and runs to its conclusion- reinstatement of the peace faction, anti biological mechanons driven underground and eventual mechanon migration by Peace faction compromising with those mechanons who would lean toward the anti-biological faction and seeking a planet that would be strictly for non biological life. These of course leaves the hostile mechanons behind on Volturnus for them to be a pain in the butt down the road but is outside the scope of the adventure. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 25, 2017 - 9:55am | EDIT: I just checked and it looks like everyone on board the ship was yazirian so what do we make of the Hentz angle? The body of a human pilot was found in area B (the helm), the rest were yazirians. Which doesn't rule out the yazirian run company for hiring a human to assist. |
February 25, 2017 - 2:27pm | EDIT: I just checked and it looks like everyone on board the ship was yazirian so what do we make of the Hentz angle? The body of a human pilot was found in area B (the helm), the rest were yazirians. Which doesn't rule out the yazirian run company for hiring a human to assist. I posted latter my ooops missing the human pilot. someone else posted once that the company name could be a merging of a yazirian name: Hepple with a Human name: white. I'm liking that lately for this as a small company. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
