 February 19, 2014 - 11:06am | Hello Explorers!The Frontier Explorer presents
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 February 19, 2014 - 11:13am | WooHoo! Congrats Tom this was a big project! I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 19, 2014 - 1:39pm | This is Spam! Pushing a product on us and all! lol I was looking at the RPGNow listing this morning. I will be buying it soon, but my first SF adventure will not include anything from it. But if my first (and then followup second adventure) game with SF and my group goes well... I'll totally use material from this for adventure three. I just checked out the PDF from http://frontierexplorer.org/special_issues. Wow. Just Wow. I'll still be getting it from DriveThru to support FE but very nicely done. ----------------------------------------------- |
 February 19, 2014 - 2:21pm | This looks great Tom. I like the ground troops onboard. |
 February 19, 2014 - 5:10pm | Looking forward to it. Keep up the great work. |
 February 19, 2014 - 8:01pm | That's an awesome book. I just have one question: Don't the Sathar self-destruct their vessels instead of letting them fall into enemy hands? How do we explain it its drifting or being captured in that case? Llllloooovvve the quickdeath. AnimuX is rockin'. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
February 19, 2014 - 8:14pm | That's an awesome book. I just have one question: Don't the Sathar self-destruct their vessels instead of letting them fall into enemy hands? How do we explain it its drifting or being captured in that case? Llllloooovvve the quickdeath. AnimuX is rockin'. This article here: http://frontierexplorer.org/book/sathar-military-organization actually fortold the coming of this document and explained the two sets of remains of sathar destroyers recovered by the UPF. One actually failed to detonate from battle damage and latter collided with a moon leaving little wrechage worth analyzing. The other also failed to detonate from battle damage and through clever detective work by one analyst it was eventually tracked down drifting out of a system decades later. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 19, 2014 - 8:32pm | I liked that quickdeath too so I had to use it. As for how it was found, I hand waved as jedion357 said in the article he linked to. Basically the idea was that for some reason, early in the fighting around what would become Morgaine's World, the destroyer in question as damaged beyond repair and due to a failure of some sort failed to detonate it's engines. The relevant bit from that article (as told from the person presenting) is below: As you are all aware, in the decisive final battle of the Sathar War
around the planet we now know as Morgaine's World, there were hundreds
of ships lost on both sides and many sathar ships fled at the battle's
end. It is also well known that sathar ships, rather than be boarded,
detonate their engines to completely obliterate the ship. This seems to
be an automatic response that is also triggered when the ship is
destroyed in battle. There are many reports from the War of sathar
ships that were cut to ribbons which then subsequently detonated their
engines destroying the fragments.
However, a careful study of the details of the battle, which I did as part of my doctoral dissertation, shows that not every destroyed ship detonated. It turns out that there were two ships from that final battle, both destroyed early in the fighting, that didn't detonate their engines. These ships were both destroyed in the first hour of the battle and drifted out of the combat zone during the ensuing hours as the battle raged on. Once it was over, no one was interested, let alone capable, of following up and looking for drifting hulks, especially given the fact that for the last many hours every sathar ship destroyed had been blowing itself up. No one expected there to be anything to look for and so no one looked. After I published the findings in my dissertation just over fifteen years ago, Spacefleet's S3 Division started looking for those ships, hoping to find one or both to study. I was also offered a commission in Starfleet which I accepted not knowing about the S3 division or the search for the ships I had identified. Starfleet has actually found both ships. The first, a frigate, was discovered over a decade ago. You haven't heard anything about it as there is nothing really to report. The ship was discovered but it had crashed into one of the moons orbiting the outermost planet in the Prenglar system. Apparently, it's velocity at the time of destruction put it on a long period orbit around Prenglar and as it was passing through the outer system, it collided with the moon. All that is left is a big crater and shrapnel. Very little of the ship survived.We were much more fortunate with the second ship. This one is nearly intact. It was finally discovered nearly 700 AU from Prenglar after years of careful survey work trying to locate it. A year and a half ago, we were able to recover it and begin studying the ship and attempting to decipher the records and information contained on-board. I'm here to present some preliminary findings. It's hand-wavy but no ship system is perfect so it's not completely unreasonable. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
February 19, 2014 - 8:46pm | I miss-remembered: the ship that crashed into the moon was a frigate. I like toms approach to the discovery of a mostly in tact destroyer. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 19, 2014 - 9:45pm | A disruption of its ability to detonate makes sense. Thanks. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 February 20, 2014 - 6:19am | That really rocks. Thanks for the heavy and excellent work! Welwellwell, time to play again soon ... Last game played: Somewhere in the 80th (Vrusk by heart) -- fond of Jugger, a "post-apocalyptic" sport |
The Sathar Destroyer Technical Manual