Rebuilding America: Industry Priorities

[kalos72]

Originally Posted by Olefin

See if you can get a copy of The Texas Israeli War - 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Te...aeli_War:_1999

I have the book myself - its mentions Texas currency - if I remember John Wayne is on one of the bills

Great suggestion! Never heard of it before to be honest.

I also would love to go through the Traveller world I think, to see how the US become a 2nd world power or whatever. But I cant find one source, it looks like its all spread out over different modules and guides and what not.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by kalos72

I also would love to go through the Traveller world I think, to see how the US become a 2nd world power or whatever. But I cant find one source, it looks like its all spread out over different modules and guides and what not.

Traveller:2300. And there's a fairly detailed timeline in the basic rules set. France is the pre-eminent power in 2300, but not to the same extent that the RL USA is today. In 2300 the US isn't far behind France, and as far as it's interstellar holdings and space forces go it's in a long-term alliance with Australia and combined they're a force to be reckoned with. Then there's Manchuria, and the various German states which aren't one unified Germany but act closely together. And I think the successor state to South Africa is pretty powerful too. In the T:2300 universe a lot of a nation or alliance's power comes down to how much Tantalum it has access to. Tantalum is a fictitious mineral crucial to the manufacture of FTL stutterwarp drives.

[kalos72]

Yeah, I read through the easy to find stuff but there are all these one liners I was hoping to get more background on. Like on the Mexican invasion of the South West, New America and the like.

Still good stuff no doubt...

[rcaf_777]

Which version did you read?

[kalos72]

Traveller 2300 Players Guide from 1986...there is no version I can see.

[TrailerParkJawa]

There is a new version of Traveller 2300 by Mongoose games. If you want a vision of what earth is like in the GDW universe think about picking up a copy of the earth sourcebook

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/...ourcebook?it=1

[kalos72]

Good suggestion! That was a nice addition to the storyline for me, even gave notes on other countries and everything!

Thanks!

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Targan

<snip> In the T:2300 universe a lot of a nation or alliance's power comes down to how much Tantalum it has access to. Tantalum is a fictitious mineral crucial to the manufacture of FTL stutterwarp drives.

I'm not sure you wanted to use "fictitious" to describe tantalum, element #73 (Ta) on the periodic table. Nor is Lanthanum (#7 La) fictitious, although used in Original Traveller as a substance essential to jump-drive operation.
Zuchai Crystals, perhaps?
Here endeth the nerdification.

[WallShadow]

I just obtained a 1996 edition of the Schuylkill County PA Yellow Pages Directory, which will be handy to figure out what industries are available to assist Harrisburg in rebuilding.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Communications came up earlier in the thread, and one thing I was surprised to find out is that some of the missiles in silos are held in reserve and topped with communication satellites to be launched post-strike, assuming they survive and aren't destroyed on the ground prior to launch.

So while priority-wise it might not be at the top of the list, OTH communication would be back up and running fairly quickly. Or could be, anyway.