Bussard Ram Jets & The Architects - Hostile Rpg Campaign Updates Involving - White Dwarf issue #32 August 1982 & Zozer Games Kosmos 68

 So tonight I was looking into White Dwarf issue #32 from August 1982 which contains the article "STL: Slower-Than-Light Ships in Traveller" by Marcus Rowland.

And this article contains an overview for both Bussard ramships and lightjammers as well as patrons and more information on these wonderful starships. According to the Bussard Ramjet wiki entry; "The Bussard ramjet was proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard"  Why do I say wonderful starships. Because these ships are the type of space craft that we'd see highly advanced alien races using in the Orbital 2100 supplement from Zozer games. Again according to the wiki entry; "A 2021 study found that, while feasible in principle, the practical construction of a useful Bussard ramjet would be beyond even a civilization of Kardashev type II" A Kardashev type II civilization  can directly consume the energy of a star, most likely through the use of a Dyson sphere.

We can see the Bussard Ramjet concept being popularized in Science Fiction going all of the way back to 1967 when it first appeared in Poul Anderson's Tau Zero.  Once again the concept has appeared across Science Fiction and bled into popular culture; "The concept was popularized by Poul Anderson in his novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and Carl Sagan, as referenced in the television series and book Cosmos" 
Now if we are using Kosmos 68 & Hostile together which I have in the past. And we will be again. Then it stands to reason that the truly alien ‘Architects’ would be a Kardashev type II civilization. And with our player's PC's they recently got a copy of the files of Academy of Sciences Researcher Orya Statnik. Among these is the location of an ever accelerating Bussard ram jet startship in the Reticulan system. 

This relates back to the fact that 'The September Group's' presence on Abyss & several other planetary systems under the guise of advisors. The ‘Architects’ presence has stirred interest in both the player's PC's and several artifacts remain in possession of Tharis and several other corporations.  The Soviets and other multinationals are highly interested in any evidence of alien presences in the universe. More to come