Good day Ladies and Gents!
It’s a good time to be Scopion fan quiaff?
A few questions for the fans of the toughness, coolest, and most hallucinogenic improved Arachnid faction that could:
• Could someone be kind enough to remind me in what source book a WOB agent states the Umayyads are "not whom we thought they were”?
• We don’t know exactly where Mundo Nublar is right? But we do have strong clues that that the Erinyes was involved in the Imperio’s region of space (A Distant Thunder). Field Manual Pereiphery -St. Jamais messages to the The Master as at 3064-hints at the Hansa playing a role in providing parts related to the Erinyes project. We also know that Elephants Dropship have been sighted in Hansa Space. Any thoughts?
• Precentor Irene Gillick, any sightings post her and her merry band of possibly-better-than-average-Blakists running into the Jaguar?
• The Eighth Scorpion Grenadiers and First Eridani Lancers…the system where they ran into the Peregrine, really the Green Ghosts? Or did they stumble into Etienne hide out before it got smoked?
• Speaking of Distant Thunder, what do we know of the upgraded Manatees?
• Do we know where in the Periphery the WOB was building there spiffy Thunderbird variant with the twin Centurion Weapon Systems??
Other Interesting Notes
• What we like to call around here as “TheUnfortunateIncident” on Hector was discovered in In December 3078, The Cobras did not begin their final assault on Roche until October 3079…and at that they took their time. I suspect that the Scorpions got off more than they let on including , more even than “the work on captured Society technology…” that TPTB have teased with.
• Did you know that the Diamond Sharks were helping to build an upgraded Vulcan variant for Nueva Castile before new management came in? Hmmm strange, don’t see that in the Tables in ISP3, must be being kept under the sleeve. ;)
• Building on the above, did you know that the the Scorpions shipped big fat chunks of the Lum Shipyard to Roche? Who lead the little party that captured said shipyard almost 10 years before and oversaw shipping it back to Roche? Why, a young handsome Galaxy Commander Colin Yeh! :D I wonder if he was able to pack it back up together with Roche’s native yard capabilities in the year he had to prepare the move to Castile Space?.... }:) I think the ISP3 report on the sorry state of the Imperio Navy was a bit of the agent being alowed to see what the Watch wanted him to see. BTW I vot the Imperio's Watch be renamed "El Veneno del Escorpíon ! [The Scorpion's Venom]
• The subsequent “Raven’s Revenge” was a bit odd. A potential giant fleet action gets whittled down to a “Trial of Possession for the Scorpion’s WarShips”, but bidden down to a one on one fight between two ships. I suspect that the Diamond Shark report that forms the base of Wars of Reaving doesn’t know the whole story. I bet the giant battle between the Scorpions and the Raven’s for the Lum Shipyards was an elaborate ruse and trade.
• Did you know that Khan Yeh (ex-Loremaster) spiked Connor Rood’s morning Coco with Necrosia after Ariel Suvorov death?...Because by the Founder Elam’s Bones, his SaKan was going to be visionary!...and because Ariel left him a note to do it. Rood saw VERY EPIC CRAZY THINGS!!… Rood's trauma over that is why occasionally he and Colin express their dislike “in violence” (in truth the blame each other for Ariel’s death) and will reconcile in an ultimate Clan Warrior Bro-Love moment… Seyla. [Ok, no, I am totally making that up, but it will be part of some fiction I’ll write that I hope will become cannon].
• Wars of Reaving Supplemental: “While the Coyote raid on Navarre ended in failure”…umm so the Coyotes hit the world where the Imperio is making a s push to build a giant weapons/mech complex (where I suspect all the intermediary Clan tech weapons that latter flood the market come from) and all Loremaster Julia has to say is a little throw away comment that “it unfortunately failed”????!!!. But HEY we successfully spread rumors! No mentions of Glorious combat?, no mentions of dirty Scorpion dezgra tactics?, just a quick misdirection into talk about a Watch operation to spread Wolverine RumorsTM which a Seeker Cluster is investigating (ATOW GM hook guys!)…hmmm sounds to be like the ‘Yotes got STONED. In a reasonably honorable fashion too.
I’ve got some more but some more, but suffice to say that I think that El Glorioso Imperio del Escorpión does a bit better than just survive, I suspect that when the ’yotes strike again in 3100 or so, that the Connor sweet talks them into a deal (forming as someone here stated something akin to Steam Punk Space Mexico, they go on to take the Hansa. The Snakes and Lions upon hearing this are all… “ the Coyotes did WHAT!??!!…oh screw that, we aren’t wasting our resources trying to take that down….hmmm looks like we need to find a sneaky way to take the Spheriods down if we can’t have the Hansa and Imperio resources”