Yes, in the 'Real World(tm)' it's just more 'fake news' but in the TU this would be a great example of the sort of 'layers w/i layers' approach that the Hivers could use to perform a 'manipulation'.
OTOH, I never did buy the bit about how they stopped the K'kree from overwhelming them. My thinking is that a race/culture as militant & aggressive as the K'kree would've channeled their 'horror' at the discovery of the Hiver manipulation into an unrelenting resolve to wipe that race from existence instead of adopting what amounted to a 'cringe, cower & crawl away' strategy. Seemingly leaving them to pray, to whatever they pray to, that the Hivers don't turn their attention back to them someday.
From: Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] Toll Road
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Cambridge Analytica is just a Hiver front organization.On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:In it the PCs are on the wrong side of bringing down the government of Goms in the Hinterworlds and there are some great options and tasks are given for how this might be done. Well before social media was a thing of course although smearing opposition is of course a possibility.With all the news about Cambridge Analytica on (UK) tv yesterday and today - and presumably on US tv as well given their claimed involvement in subverting the last presidential election - I was a bit taken aback on the bus home this evening to read Toll Road. (I'm endeavouring to go through Challenge systematically to make myself a bit more acquainted with its contents, some of which I may only have read once many years ago.) I had no recollection of the content of this adventure at all - it's some years since I wrote The Traveller Periodical Bibliography entry for it (couple of decades more like).It's a MegaTraveller adventure by the excellent Mark Gelinas from Challenge #45, pp.14-20 and dates from 1990.I wonder if anyone's actually run this adventure and if so, how did it go? I'm vaguely thinking maybe I could adapt the location to somewhere near Aramanx as a side adventure for my lot playing TTA. It would be remarkably 'current'. Though without the shattered Imperium set up, it might be a bit harder to get players to bite on patron's request.tc----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.co m/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/con firm.php?u=gi277fSUTkyFeQYIkUk n6zf5f3dXCa4l
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