Kimanjano Libre!

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ou la mort!

Kimanjano means "yellow". But we will paint it red! RED!
Marie Germays, to the Francs-Tireurs de la Fromme

A campaign set in the 2300AD/2320AD universe dealing with rebellion on Kimanjano and intrigue across the French Arm.

The campaign starts on September 30 2313. I am not going to be strictly canonical with either 2300AD or 2320AD, but deviations will (at least initially) be slight. Boldfaced links below denote local documents written by Anders Sandberg.

Kimanjano

• Description of Kimanjano
• Map of Fromme Colony
• Map of Inhabited Areas

Colonial News Network Clippings

• Le Journal de Fromme October 3 2313
• French Arm Quarantine Treaty (October 3 2313)
• Rebel Leaders Moved to Sol System.pdf (October 4 2313)
• France, Japan Talks of Expanding into 61 Cygni Cluster
• Terrorist Attack on Pentapod Delegation (November 6 2313)
• Le Journal de Fromme December 1 2313
• The Emperor’s New Vision (The Economist, Jan 1 2314)
• Joint UAR-Manchurian Terraforming Project Hits Snag (The Economist, May 14 2313)
• Emperor, Here We Are! (The Economist, June 18 2314)

House Rules

• Les Années Folles - some comments on my approach to 2300AD
• 2320AD-Storyteller hybrid - House rules for playing a mix of the games. Still incomplete and buggy.
• Character sheet
• Natures - personalities for the characters.
• Economics - Rules for initial money, black markets etc.
• New Merits and Flaws
• Cybernetics and other Enhancements - Extensive list of ways of going transhuman
• Blue Planet tech - what can be used from Blue Planet.

Links

Setting

• Life in 2300AD - About everyday life and the basic structure of the world.
• Earth in 2300
• Timeline up to 2300 - Based on 2300AD modules. Some inconsistencies and oddities. See also timeline of the first wave of the Kafer war (2295-2302).
• Major players on the French Arm - Who is meddling
• Le Baroud: what every soldier knows - Military knowledge.
• The Big Dark: what every spacer knows - Starship jobs.
• Tradecraft: what every field agent knows - Agent knowledge.
• Tourism Board Slogans - They have not improved in 300 years.
• Tirane Sourcebook - "Tirane is Earth but without the major mistakes".
• Joi Sourcebook - 61 Ursae Majoris, emerging as the new center of the French Arm
• Neubayern - One of the old and stable colonies
• Porrima - One of the newest settlements in the Wolf Cluster.
• Van Maanen's Star and the Drexler Outpost - One of the barest systems in human space and the people who emigrate there.
• Why the planets of Beta Canum didn't get any names - Naming bureaucracy on the French Arm

Maps

• Map of Known Space
• Topological Map of Known Space
• Zoomable map of Known Space
• Revised Near Star Map
• The French Arm
• Escape from the Near Star Map: I have combined the NSM with the HYG database in order to see what lies beyond the canon map.
  • Map of systems within 100 lightyears that can be reached by stutterwarp.
  • Clustered topological map, showing the what connects to what.
  • Map showing the clusters that can be reached using one stutterwarp tug trip from other reachable systems.
  • Topological map showing the connections between the clusters.
  • CSV data file for stars in above map. The fields correspond to name, XYZ coordinates, absolute magnitude, spectral class and cluster membership.
• Eber Space - systems within 35 lightyears from Zeta Reticuli the Ebers could have reached with their 9.4ly drive.

Organisations

• IEX - The premier xenobiological society of human space.
• NARL - Protect the environment and promote peace.
• Foundation for Practical Knowledge - Major research foundation.
• Orbital Quarantine Command - Somebody has to be paranoid about Earth's biosphere
• Corporations - Some corporations.
• Intelligence agencies
• Provolution - Transhumanist terrorist group
• Fondation Fermi-Bostrom - Seeking to safeguard human survival
• Joint Fleets Strategic Commission - Sinister military group also trying to safeguard humanity
• Agorism and Cosmopolitanism - Emerging ideologies
• The Resurrected Sabbatean Church - Silly mysticism, dangerous cult or colonial liberation movement?

Military

• Etranger - Enormous site about the military forces, weapons and tactics of known space.
• Azanian space force
• French Medium Starships
• Military Ranks

Equipment

• Tech Levels - Tech levels for 2320AD.
• Kimanjano Equipment
• Equipment guide 2
• Civilian vehicles
• Life Foundation Squid Submarine
• Pentapod constructs
• Paramedic Kit contents
• Sleeper Capsules
• Your Delicious Future - Newsletter from the Pentapods to their beta testers.

Crime and Economy

• Piracy, Catch & Carry -Yes, there are space pirates. But they tend to solve pursuit differential equations and do social engineering.
• Smuggling on the French Arm
• Black Markets
• Starports
• Interstellar trade
• Frequency of Ship Arrivals
• A trip to Beta Canum - A look at the cost of sending businesspeople to the stars.

Aliens

• Kafer - Humanity's enemy #1, with dangerously variable intelligence.
• Sung - Humanity's ambitious "little brothers"
• Xiang - Primitive insectoids
• Pentapods - Bioengineering traders to be paranoid about.
• Eber - Withdrawn and ceremonial. On Kimanjano the "Thinking Eber" craze never disappeared.
• Klaxun - Primitive plant-animals
• Ylii - Remot allies against the Kafers (another writeup)

Technology

• RFID Tags in 2320
• Roton lander - the most common way of arriving and departing from Kimanjano.
• Malusi Multifunction Frigate - Azanian ship used near Kimanjano
• Thorez Courier - A typical small starship
• X-boats and courier missiles - How information is transmitted FTL
• Stutterwarp thresholds - Just how close to a planet can you travel strongly FTL?
• Interstellar velocity adjustment - Another navigational headache.
• Unconventional Starship Tactics - How much damage can a ramming spaceship do?
• Cooling starships
• Colonial architects manual - How to build colonies
• Materials Science
• Stutterwarp Misconceptions - About the history and details of the Jerome Drive.

Adventures

• On the topology of the quantum Killing field near a Jerome drive: nonlinear interactions - Horror adventure scenario.

Pictures

• Rob Caswell's Artwork - One of the original illustrators
• Richard Spake's Artwork

Game System

• Random homeworld determination - for that cosmopolitan feeling.

Sites

• Pentapod's World of 2300AD
• 2300 StarCruiser/UK Page
• One man's views of 2300AD

Guerilla Theory

• Guerilla Warfare - Wikipedia
• Resistance Movement - Wikipedia
• Guerilla Warfare - Che Guevara
• Guerilla Warfare - Mao Tse Tung
• Relearning Counterinsurgence Warfare - Robert R. Tomes
• An introduction to the art of Revolution