Mark, why should I tell you to stop? At this rate, you'll do all my work for me before I have a chance to sit down and do my own!
Seriously, this is good material. I see no reason not to let you keep working up stuff, especially as I don't have to have this all nailed down just to give Steve an outline/proposal. As long as I can provide a good sense of "where we are now", the history can remain fluid and subject to revision all the way up to practically the last minute. Thus this isn't necessary final, just a good starting point.
Anyway, it's clear we're building up to something here. What I think I'd like to see is the danger level here peaking around 2004 or 2005, after which it drops back to comparative peace for almost a decade before beginning to resurge circa 2014-15, the projected "now" for the book.
As for the thirtieth anniversary bomb, yes, that's a good idea, I like it. I also like the idea of the Bombmaker -- but leaving the culprit open for the GM to decide is I think the way to go. Acyl's point about a box detailing all the Usual Suspects is something I would definitely do then.
If the UN has forcefield defenses, that gives us an interesting option -- a nuke which the forcefield contains, except maybe for the radiation pulse. IST NY could still get wiped out, but the building (and memorial plaza) would remain standing...
A bomb on a cigarette boat has been tried once before in the IST history -- Miami, IIRC, a Cuban or Cuban-backed plot.
More if my life stops throwing all kinds of crazy -- like the 2-hour traffice jam I was trapped in last night on my commute home -- at me.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Seriously, this is good material. I see no reason not to let you keep working up stuff, especially as I don't have to have this all nailed down just to give Steve an outline/proposal. As long as I can provide a good sense of "where we are now", the history can remain fluid and subject to revision all the way up to practically the last minute. Thus this isn't necessary final, just a good starting point.
Anyway, it's clear we're building up to something here. What I think I'd like to see is the danger level here peaking around 2004 or 2005, after which it drops back to comparative peace for almost a decade before beginning to resurge circa 2014-15, the projected "now" for the book.
As for the thirtieth anniversary bomb, yes, that's a good idea, I like it. I also like the idea of the Bombmaker -- but leaving the culprit open for the GM to decide is I think the way to go. Acyl's point about a box detailing all the Usual Suspects is something I would definitely do then.
If the UN has forcefield defenses, that gives us an interesting option -- a nuke which the forcefield contains, except maybe for the radiation pulse. IST NY could still get wiped out, but the building (and memorial plaza) would remain standing...
A bomb on a cigarette boat has been tried once before in the IST history -- Miami, IIRC, a Cuban or Cuban-backed plot.
More if my life stops throwing all kinds of crazy -- like the 2-hour traffice jam I was trapped in last night on my commute home -- at me.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.