Hey guys and gals, >From the source material for the Morethans (David Gerrold's Star Wolf series) the Morethans had bred a special caste of assassins and saboteurs. They used these against themselves primarily (because the Morethan leadership is a fiercely competitive, conniving, scheming lot entirely too smart for their own good) but in some circumstances they would send one on a mission on a human vessel. Once there the Imp (I believe that was the official title Gerrold used) would sneak around the ship and circumvent the various sensors aboard the ship - usually hiding in the air cleansing/hydroponics sections of the ship and its ducting. The Imps were much smaller than a human adult and contortionists and could wiggle and squeeze themselves into all sorts of service spaces to hide and quietly infiltrate the ships systems and sensors. One of the big missions in the series was for the Imp hide long enough onboard for the military ship to return to a secret deep space base for resupply, use the ships sensors to determine the location of the depot, then later when the ship was away from the rest of the fleet sabotage the ship to allow the imp to send the location of the depot back to the Morethan fleet. Ideally the Imp would also use the ships ventilation or reactor to kill the crew as well so that the ship could be captured by the Morethan fleet and the Imp recovered. However the Imps seemed to be determined enough that they would be willing to kill themselves to take out the ship if they felt their mission was at risk. So a significant portion of the book was about a small section of the crew of the ship trying to locate and eliminate an Imp without tipping their hand that they knew of its presence for fear that it would simply destroy the ship in various ways.
Clint "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 01/22/2011 09:04 AM Please respond to The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> To The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> cc Subject Re: [gurps] Gremlin Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 02/21/2011 > A fairy/goblin aka glitch or causes them. Hello Mike, I doubt there is much magic in Clinton's setting. I guess either a specially breed 'drone' or a specially trained Morethan -- can they dare to give 'drones' the necessary flexibility to go into enemy-held places? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
