Well, let's break it down point by point:
* The rock miners haven't been terribly shy about counting their losses. So far they're mostly chalked off to "Reavers." No connection to anything else implied.
* Hidden Asteroid lost three Little Sisters in the vicinty of Jupiter in the last several months prior to Convention. The Sisters were trying to trace the source of the Reaver attacks.
* SSX Base lost a cruiser near Jupiter on a similar mission under similar circumstances.
* The Mundanes (the Ameridanes at least) know, or have suspicions about the thionite smuggling. They know that Hidden Asteroid lost a ship recently, but haven't connected these two data points.
* The Senshi knew that somebody was smuggling through Castle Magellan, but not what or why until the 'danelaw intervened.
* At least one wannabe zwilnik approached the top biomod expert in the Main Belt about working on thionite derivitives, and got his ship blown apart for his trouble. AFAICT, nobody except said expert (who's dealng with, ah, personal problems at the moment) knows this.
* The Jossies have suspicions that somebody's working out of the outskirts of Jupiter space, but the Whedonites are too small & too spread out to engage in any investigation on their own.
* The Warsie construction crews on Mimas have similar suspicions, but have been warned off by certain persons of authority in the 'danelaw via the Warsie operations base at L5.
* The Trekkies have recieved similar warnings.
* At least one Reaver ship has made an attempt on Earth-Mars shipping, an unexpectedly bold maneuver.
* SOS-dan, through as-yet unrevealed methods, has recieved intelligence on all of these data points and has put it together into a plot of terrifying proportions. This information is what's driving the Convention.
Okay, and now here's what, so far as I can figure, the characters know about it:
* SSX and Hidden Asteroid-aligned characters (Danger Will, Katz, etc.) know what their respective fractions know, and nothing more until approached by SOS-dan or after the SOS-dan goes public on Day 2 of the Convention.
* 'Danelaw-aligned characters (Chris, Natty & Stacy, etc.) know what their Mundane sponsors know, plus whatever information may have been passed by SOS-dan (if approached previous to Day 2)
* Non-aligned characters (The Professor, the Explain Star crew, Morden, etc.) know only about the attacks on the asteroid mining facilities and a passel of wild rumors unless specifically sought out by SOS-dan.
* Everybody who's been targeted by SOS-dan for early recruitment knows a capsule version of what SOS-dan knows. Not all of it by a long shot, but enough to be convincing.
...and that's what I got.
In the meantime, I want to bring this up while I'm still conscious. I'm starting to think that the thread's getting a bit unweildly for further development. If Bob's offer of a whole subforum is still open, I'm of the opinion we shoudl take it.
However, since I'm not quite entirely in charge here, I thought I'd solicit opinions from the various writers before asking directly. So. You guys up for breaking out of the one thread, or would you rather keep this contained?---
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* The rock miners haven't been terribly shy about counting their losses. So far they're mostly chalked off to "Reavers." No connection to anything else implied.
* Hidden Asteroid lost three Little Sisters in the vicinty of Jupiter in the last several months prior to Convention. The Sisters were trying to trace the source of the Reaver attacks.
* SSX Base lost a cruiser near Jupiter on a similar mission under similar circumstances.
* The Mundanes (the Ameridanes at least) know, or have suspicions about the thionite smuggling. They know that Hidden Asteroid lost a ship recently, but haven't connected these two data points.
* The Senshi knew that somebody was smuggling through Castle Magellan, but not what or why until the 'danelaw intervened.
* At least one wannabe zwilnik approached the top biomod expert in the Main Belt about working on thionite derivitives, and got his ship blown apart for his trouble. AFAICT, nobody except said expert (who's dealng with, ah, personal problems at the moment) knows this.
* The Jossies have suspicions that somebody's working out of the outskirts of Jupiter space, but the Whedonites are too small & too spread out to engage in any investigation on their own.
* The Warsie construction crews on Mimas have similar suspicions, but have been warned off by certain persons of authority in the 'danelaw via the Warsie operations base at L5.
* The Trekkies have recieved similar warnings.
* At least one Reaver ship has made an attempt on Earth-Mars shipping, an unexpectedly bold maneuver.
* SOS-dan, through as-yet unrevealed methods, has recieved intelligence on all of these data points and has put it together into a plot of terrifying proportions. This information is what's driving the Convention.
Okay, and now here's what, so far as I can figure, the characters know about it:
* SSX and Hidden Asteroid-aligned characters (Danger Will, Katz, etc.) know what their respective fractions know, and nothing more until approached by SOS-dan or after the SOS-dan goes public on Day 2 of the Convention.
* 'Danelaw-aligned characters (Chris, Natty & Stacy, etc.) know what their Mundane sponsors know, plus whatever information may have been passed by SOS-dan (if approached previous to Day 2)
* Non-aligned characters (The Professor, the Explain Star crew, Morden, etc.) know only about the attacks on the asteroid mining facilities and a passel of wild rumors unless specifically sought out by SOS-dan.
* Everybody who's been targeted by SOS-dan for early recruitment knows a capsule version of what SOS-dan knows. Not all of it by a long shot, but enough to be convincing.
...and that's what I got.
In the meantime, I want to bring this up while I'm still conscious. I'm starting to think that the thread's getting a bit unweildly for further development. If Bob's offer of a whole subforum is still open, I'm of the opinion we shoudl take it.
However, since I'm not quite entirely in charge here, I thought I'd solicit opinions from the various writers before asking directly. So. You guys up for breaking out of the one thread, or would you rather keep this contained?---
Mr. Fnord
http://fnord.sandwich.net/
http://www.jihad.net/
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"