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But just getting updates on the game and progress and how things are going, no better time than to have Christopher Griffin, our friend Chris Griffin from...

Mongoose.

Mongoose on with us tonight.

Coming back to us.

Yes.

Yeah, because when we talked with him, which wasn't that long ago, so in advance, thanks so much, Chris.

When we talked with him last, it wasn't that long ago, but it was much earlier in the process that of building and finishing Pioneer, especially the core rule book.

And as we record this, we're not that far behind the most recent update from Chris on the Mongoose blog.

Walk away.

And then, uh, so, so Mongoose is actually just kickstarted, um, their, uh, dark conspiracy game, which is kind of a remake of the old dark conspiracy game from the nineties, which also follows that same concept of there is, um, I think this one's kind of changed.

So there's like an incursion and creatures from another dimension are slipping in, but you were part of the government, uh, agency or whatever that's like investigating and kind of suppressing the truth about it.

And, uh, yeah.

the army went out and they destroyed endsmith and then they like stuck a bunch of people in the camp somewhere it's like all those people knew about it but the the a lot of it was kind of pushed down and then when you had uh i guess people protesting human rights and they're like okay look we're gonna take a few of you there and see what see what it is we actually have here and then they kind of leave and they're like kind of just quietly disbanded all their organizations because they're like okay uh That was what we thought was going on.

So I think there's, you know, depending on the game, there's different ways.

I'm personally looking forward to whatever this dark conspiracy thing is that Mongoose is doing because I want to see what their twist on that game is because the outline they have is it's going to have three eras you can choose to play in, or you can do a campaign where you go through one through three.

It's like the first one is like present day, and you're part of the conspiracy to help suppress these, I guess, incursions.

Let's, let's- Yeah, go on, mate

... is coming from Mongoose Publishing.

Uh, they now have, they now own everything that Games Workshop used to do.

Not Games Designers Workshop, I should say.

I did mention

this on the Traveller Forums, Mongoose Traveller Forums.

They were amazed.

Why haven't you lost more PCs? This is a very deadly campaign.

The Traveler book is really all you need for Traveler.

Now, Mongoose has Updated Traveler, that's the older Traveler.

Mongoose has Mongoose Traveler, and now they have a second edition of that, and and whatnot.

But yeah, if you're only going to buy one sci-fi game, if you bought the Traveler book, you could do just about anything with that.

So yeah, so that's not exactly a module, but that's what I would recommend.

I've always wanted to dive into sort of the mega Traveler rules because that's how I started in Traveler.

Most people want to get the latest, greatest, modern, and would rather have a physical copy than hunt for PDFs on DriveThru.

So yeah, I think Mongoose Traveler is what I've been using recently in campaigns.

You're listening to Signals from the Core, a podcast about adventuring in the core sector of the Mongoose Traveler second edition role-playing game.

This is where the bureaucracy is dangerous, the nobles are lethal, and where power, paranoia and prestige collide.

I'm Captain Aurelius, and I'll be your host.

But we'll also look at the Vargr and how they show up in the core.

And the Aslan, which the Aslan I feel I'm actually a little spicy about because I feel like...

Mongoose has overdone it with the Aslan in a lot of ways.

I mean, if you look at the number of Aslan

source materials compared to any other,

It's, it's, uh, it's a really neat setting.

Um, it's coming out to BackerKit, uh, from Mongoose, uh, Publishing, who, uh, you should know, as they do Traveler, and they have now adapted it using the Traveler rules, which I am fascinated by.

Uh, at some point, John, we're gonna do our f- favorite character creation, uh, episode.

That's, like, one that I've had in my pocket for a long time, and Traveler is gonna be in there, 'cause I know you've never played Traveler, and, like, God, I almost want during the episode to, like, take you through the process of making a character.

Oh, yeah.

But anyway, from our friends over at Mongoose Publishing.

Oh.

Yeah.

And then Kinstaff Media did the third edition in 2012.

Right.

And now Mongoose Publishing own it.

And they are going to be doing a new version of the game using the Traveler Rules engine, which they now own, which they acquired earlier this year.