Urban Guerilla and Florida

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Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Who's to say the USS Constitution has even reached that far yet?
One option to introduce the PCs to the ship is have it arrive after TF34 leaves Germany - November 2000 or even later. Other options are a pick from Turkey or even Israel.
Urban Guerilla is set in 2001, but that could well be January, which doesn't leave much time to get across the Atlantic via the West Indies.
Also, would Captain Christiansen persist with docking at St Petersburg after potentially hearing the area has been taken over by NA? Gateway does open with an encounter involving pirates associated with NA, and John Hammersmith is supported by them. Captain Christiansen is clearly concerned about NA too (see pages 23 & 27) and directs the PCs to seek out and pass on any information about them.
Given all that, it's possible a new destination was selected rather than risking the ship and crew just because they used to call that particular port home.

In my campaign the PC group ended the arc of their European characters when they got home. When we talked about it, they felt that they would get integrated into a larger unit, which had been what they had wanted to do. That made sense to me; they were very much an HQ/Support unit that got cut off, not a band of adventuerers or special ops or anything. Anyway they got home via a frigate that picked them up on the Italian coast.

So if the Constitution is featured, it would have to be introduced in the Florida campaign. But you make a good point. The ship might simply be a good source of backup/support as it is in Gateway to the Spanish Main.