![]() Her status as a reserve merchant marine vessel with the Flight means she can be activated as needed to support active military operations. It would be easy to work the Venture into a Saurian campaign. In our first issue we introduced a “big ship campaign” centered on the crew of the CFMS Venture and promised to support that campaign in future issues. A set of Knight Hawk encounters are presented that tell the story of the first contact and show how the Saurian ark ships arrive in the Frontier. These would figure prominently in a first contact scenario. ![]() ![]() A branch of Spacefleet and their primary communication ship are detailed. ![]() There is a write up on their spacecraft and a new weapon system they developed to combat the Sathar. This includes a sector and system brief to establish the Saurians concretely in the setting. What you find in this issue as part of the “Saurian Cycle” is support material to help run an adventure or campaign. To provide an adventure seed for meeting the Saurians it became clear that we would need to develop and detail a sector of space for them to live in, rough out a planetary brief, and detail their spacecraft and technologies. The original article by Jeffrey Bouley, served its purpose of introducing a new race for play in the Star Frontiers setting but did not root that race in the setting beyond giving the name of its lost home planet. This lead us to the Saurians introduced in Dragon #103 (November 1985). Rather than invent a whole new species we decided to use an existing species to save time and effort on the creative process. One primary adventure hook was first contact via radio signal. Tom Stephens wrote an excellent article on subspace radios and it suggested avenues for adventure that we felt we should build on. ![]() In this issue we’ve prepared a menu of material around the themes of subspace radios and first contact with an alien species. ![]()
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