Captain Nathan Bridger designed and started to build the Sequest DSV he left the military before the ship was completed because he's son got shot in action the ship get completed by NORPAC (a military organization) 3 years later (circa 2017 ) Commander Jonathan Ford is forced to relieve Captain Marilyn Stark of duty for disobeying orders a peace treaty was hammed out, but there were pockets of hostile nonaligned nation NORPAC gave the SeaQuest DSV to the UEO ( United Earth Oceans Organization, a global federation of nations, similar to the United Nations ) the UEO picks Captain Nathan Bridger to captain the SeaQuest because he designed the ship, "he is not thought of as military, yet shot when he has to", "you can speak their language" meaning can to talk to Scientists (he is one) The storyline begins in the year 2018, after mankind has exhausted almost all natural resources, except for the ones on the ocean floor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaQuest_DSV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_seaQuest_DSV_episodes there is a star trek likeness to it ----- Original Message ---- From: Johannes Trimmel <[email protected]> To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 12 December, 2008 7:09:02 AM Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek It's ages ago that i have seen Seaquest and i never have particulary followed the political background. But maybe the Seaquest is a refitted military vessel, either replaced by more modern military subs or a goverment had comissioned a lot of military subs and the following goverment has canceled the program and done the best it could with thoose half finished crafts, to not have entirely wasted the investment. Or it could be that there is some treaty reducing the naval power of whoever owns the seaquest and such multi purpose cruisers are somehow the equivalent of Japanese whaling for research purposes. Multi purpose crafts also could make propably, if you face a lot of threats by oponents equiped much worse then you are. Like the equivalent of Somali pirates. They likely don't have the hardware to attack an armed multi purpose ship but if there are many of them, arming ordinary ships might be more efficient then sending escorts. Or there is some (real or percieved) threat and arming ordinary ships is a cheap way to show that you do something, while everything else would cost too much money. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
