Asteroids! Vegetable spores! Space pirates!
The long-awaited return of the Traveller saga!
Bay Area underground metal heroes Slough Feg revive the classic Traveller storyline on the Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades EP—seven songs of pure weird metal glory!
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This episode begins with a drone-clone orbiting Mithril– an icy planet in the Sword Worlds subsector. The android/clone is created by the exiled professor Ricket, who remains a transformed Vargr (carnivore chaser stock), living on his secret asteroid-ship “The Rock”, and plotting his revenge on the Zhodani Consulate, while searching for his arch-nemesis Baltech Budapest (still in half-human half-Vargr form as well). The Professor’s research on the effects of Psionics on Zhodani society is now being used in an attempt to attack the Zhodani with their own psychological weapons.
Meanwhile our hero, Baltech Budapest, is hiding on Mithril beneath layers of ice in the Ephemeral Glades. Ephemeral Galdes are frozen pools on the planet’s surface which remain impenetrable until temperatures rise above freezing. When temperatures rise, seeds of flora germinate and sprout, pushing shoots above the snow , producing a lush glade within a day. Insects and small reptiles rapidly mate in this environment, creating a rich flora and fauna, which will die as soon as the temperature drops again. It is during this brief window that the drone can detect and possibly capture Baltech in his cave below the Ephemeral Glades. Once detected, the drone calls in reinforcements to capture and abduct Baltech. Can he escape the Ephemeral Glades and flee planet Mithril? Or will he be re-captured by Professor Ricket and forced to serve as leader of the new Vargr-hybrid race!? These songs tell the story………
- 1. Knife World
- 2. The Black Circle
- 3. Mission of Mithril
- 4. Ephemeral Glades
- 5. Magnetic Fluctuations
- 6. Ice Shelf Stomp
- 7. Vargr Reprise
