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Posted by: Abstruse Jun 10 2004, 10:34 AM

I was looking through all my old adventure books since I finally have a group to play with now, working on an order to run the adventures is (I'm starting in 2051, so I figure by the end of the year I should have them caught up to the time line...) However, in reading the end of Wake of the Comet, I noticed FanPro had a little thing for people to fill out and tell how the adventure did in their group to determine who won the Probe Race. Was this ever announced, are they still waiting for ballots, or was the whole idea just scrapped?

The Abstruse One

Posted by: booklord Jun 10 2004, 03:06 PM

I think the writers left it open-ended so people could decide in their own campaigns who won. However in Wake of the Comet I think it came down to a number of final contestants.....

Posted by: Backgammon Jun 10 2004, 03:47 PM

A lot of the older FASA stuff used to have cards like that in them. They'd use them to help them decide where to go with the metaplot from there. They stopped doing though cause hardly anyone ever sent them in.

Posted by: Cray74 Jun 10 2004, 04:58 PM

Posted by: JongWK Jun 10 2004, 05:23 PM

The Probe Race's canon result is still undecided.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Jun 10 2004, 08:17 PM

Who won the probe race? The Shadowrunners, friends, the Shadowrunners.

~J

Posted by: Snow_Fox Jun 10 2004, 10:36 PM

like Jong said, unresolved.

The bigest change those cardsmade was for Dunkelzahn to be elected president. go fig.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Jun 10 2004, 10:47 PM

I'm betting on Ares with the second probe. Reading the adventures, the last has the highest probability of success simply because whichever side ends up with the <spoiler> it will become more about leverage than anything else. Aztechnology, if they get the <spoiler>, would let Ares win the race in exchange for some favor (We demand a Thor shot on these four sites in the Yucatan! Now, white boy!). And I don't see the runners wanting that kind of heat (much higher chance of them stealing the money in the chaos). The Yamatetsu mission has almost a 50/50 chance, but I'd give Ares 75 percent.

Anyone want to take bets?

Posted by: FlakJacket Jun 10 2004, 11:37 PM

I think there was vague talk at one point about doing something to allow for on-line voting but nothing ever happened with that. Besides being a technical nightmare trying to stop people mass-voting for their choice, probably just came to time constraints.

Edit: That reminds me, I'll have to consider sending that in some time. Although I'm not really sure if it's worth it now. :/

Posted by: Dax Jun 11 2004, 02:49 AM

I had always assumed that no one suceeded in the Probe Race. That a combination of Shadowruns, natural mishaps, and the fact that the comet itself seemed to be so unpredicatable ment that every last Probe got taken down.

Course that may be my parinoia talking again....

Posted by: Connor Jun 11 2004, 04:14 AM

We've always played it that Ares won the race. Although we never really did much with it beyond that, as far as what sort of stuff happened afterwards. We also had one of guys save the data from I believe what was left of the Yamatetsu module (it's been a long time, ran it shortly after it came out) or whatever data thing had that mysterious probe shown on it briefly to put up on Shadowland at some point.

Although the Wake of the Comet stuff was run with my group about the time we started falling apart and we haven't played a huge amount of Shadowrun in the intervening time, so none of the repercussions ever got explored.

Posted by: Shockwave_IIc Jun 12 2004, 12:10 AM

i might be getting myself confused, But wasn't there one mention (and only one mind) Of Saeder-Krupp also having a backup Probe???

Posted by: Snow_Fox Jun 13 2004, 07:14 PM

Most of the runs we did around the probes were based on getting stuff up or stopping other people. Bottom line we didn't care if Ares won or SK or McDonalds, as long as we were paid for the runs we did. Heck half the time we didn't know who we were running for and sometimes didn't know who were were against: "Steal that component from that ship and drop it in puget sound"
"make sure he misses his flight, but don't rough him up" (the flight crashed)

Posted by: Kanada Ten Nov 5 2004, 12:05 AM

Ares has officially won the Probe Race!

Posted by: Tanka Nov 5 2004, 12:09 AM

Announcement in SoE, SOTA64 or MJLBB?

<-- Poor college kid, doesn't have any of the new nifty books.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Nov 5 2004, 12:12 AM

SotA64 where it mentions that Yamatetsu may have lost the Probe Race to Ares but it won the race to Mars! That's right, Yamatetsu landed the first manned mission to the Red Planet!

Posted by: Toa Nov 5 2004, 12:25 AM

Yay Yamatetsu! \o/ (I love these guys...)

Posted by: Kagetenshi Nov 5 2004, 12:26 AM

Everyone does. We're meant to. If they don't pull a Universal Brotherhood, I will be quite miffed.

~J

Posted by: Kanada Ten Nov 5 2004, 12:30 AM

Posted by: FlakJacket Nov 5 2004, 01:04 AM

Yeah, I saw that. It's certainly going to open a can of worms regarding Ares' Project Cydonia and the whole Missions/PoaD affair.

And yay cosmonauts. *Cossack dances out of the thread*

Posted by: Kanada Ten Nov 5 2004, 03:05 AM

And since this is vaguely on topic; the Mount Kilimanjaro attack scares the crap out of me. I think it's cool that they are going ahead with the launcher in a multilateral way, but the idea that their "solution" was cheaper than building a mountain makes me shiver. Possibly related, I have to check the dates, but I think the situation with the Salish Tsimshian war just got more complex.