On 21/1/21 8:38 pm, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk
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>     On Thursday, January 21, 2021, 02:13:30 AM MST, Timothy Collinson
>     - timothy. collinson at port. ac. uk <xxxxxx@simplelists.com
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>     On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 02:14, gndonald2001 at yahoo.com.au
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>         Back in 2004 someone wrote a program to generate sector
>         specific TNS entries. As far as I can tell it was MS Windows
>         only. I've not been able to locate any surviving copies. The
>         basic idea sounds like some thing that would be very useful so
>         I am wondering if anyone still has a copy?
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>     But I can see why Traveller hasn't majored on this as it's
>     difficult to write/create for every Jump emergence.  Two helps:
>     for the Charted Space news I worked through Don McKinney's
>     wonderful Integrated Timeline, calculated from the dates how long
>     the news would take to propagate to Aramis subsector and then
>     announced them; for local (planetary) news you can raid old
>     newspaper archives for headlines suitably changed up of course.
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> I should have noted, that of course this only works *really* well for
> 1105 and years in that vicinity where there's *lots* of news to suit a
> campaign spread over the course of that year (or more). 
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> Of course, the Timeline could serve as inspiration for other periods
> even when it's not as dense.
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> I should also note (or forewarn) that I removed any news items related
> to specific adventures - either because the PCs couldn't possibly have
> heard that news or because of the possibility that it might be
> possible to play the adventure!  (Though I can feel myself just
> starting to think beyond the TTA campaign itself and I'm starting to
> whimper at the prospect...)
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> tc
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<Joke>How about "Collinson's Colossus"? An epic, multi-millennial,
odyssey spanning from the Treaty of New York to the 3I's peaceful
dissolution?</Joke>

<Serious>You could always take your mob back to the TC days ("TC on TC"
... hmm... ) and have them cross paths with Milford et al.  As you seem
to have bypassed the uncanny-valley culture shock my mob had to get
around with the Golden Age, your mob's take on the ISW era should be a)
interesting and b) quite different.  ("Low Jump.  Low-tech.  Low-life.")
</Serious>.

Alex