Special Memorial Day Scenario Challenge

[Doctor X]

For those of us in the States, this is Memorial Day Weekend. To honor the fallen warriors, let's make some scenarios involving the greatest warriors in the Doctor Who universe: Sontarans.

Got mine that I'll flesh out here in my next post, let's see yours.

GO!

[Doctor X]

Apotheosis of the Sontarans

And War, which for a moment was no more,
Did glut himself again: a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought--and that was death -Lord Byron, "Darkness"

Introduction: The TARDIS lands on the Greek island of Kefalonia in October of 1823. The locals are gearing up to join the fight for Greece's independence from the Ottoman Turks on the mainland. The plan is to take the Ottoman port of Lepanto, and they are fired up for glorious battle by the arrival of two major supporters of the war: Lord Byron, who arrived two months earlier with money and aid for the cause, and a mysterious figure only seen by a few, claiming to be an avatar of the god Ares who has given them weapons and tactics far exceeding anything available in Post-Napoleonic Europe.


Things To Do: Meet Lord Byron. Track a temporal distortion that seems to be coming from the area near Lepanto. Learn how Greeks that have been Christian for over 1500 years have fallen back to worship of the Old Gods. Find the avatar of Ares and learn how he has access to futuristic technology.


Antagonists: General Sloxx of the 5012th Sontaran Battle Fleet. When the Sontarans were denied the glory of fighting in the Time War, he attempted to take his forces through the Time Lock. Their ships broke upon contact with the barrier and his surviving forces were overwhelmed by the Could-Have-Been King and his army of Never-Weres. The General bailed from his escape craft over the Ionian Sea and his escape landed him in the era of the Greek Independence War. Learning about the locals, he discovered the tales of the Greek Gods and proclaimed himself the Avatar of Ares, come to lead Greece back on the path to glory. Although he DOES find the war an interesting intellectual exercise, he is more interested in recovering his crashed escape ship and making contact with the Sontarans of the present day. If he succeeds, not only will they be able to lead the Greeks to throw off the Ottomans and then go on to global domination as devout worshippers of a reborn Ares, but will also have his centuries of advanced knowledge to aid in the war with the Rutans.


Action Scenes: Skirmishes and naval battles against Turkish forces, employing futuristic weapons against 19th century foes. Leading said foes on a siege of Sloxx's ship. Preventing Sloxx from reaching his ship. Stopping Sloxx from unleashing biological weapons on the Turks.


Visuals: Sloxx's wrecked ship is larger than the usual single-occupant escape pods normally used by Sontarans. Although he only has a handful of Sontaran weapons to distribute amongst the Greek forces ("Gifts from Ares."), he will have much more weaponry aboard the ship.


Problems: Convincing a people who have been enslaved for 400 years that their "savior" and his futuristic gifts aren't worth keeping. (Lord Byron is already greatly admired for his contributions to the war effort, and may be useful in this.) Stopping Sloxx from calling his people or unleashing more weapons onto the planet.


Things To Prepare For: Sloxx survived when all his men perished. In his eyes, he has lost honor and now sees leading the Greeks to victory and leading the Sontarans to a planet dominated by willing servants as the only way to redeem himself. If The Doctor is in the party, he may be willing to change his plan if it gives him the opportunity to defeat such a formidable foe of the Sontarans.


Continuing The Adventure: Lord Byron would fall ill in February of the following year and die two months later. Was his death the result of exposure to a bio-weapon about Sloxx's ship? Will there be more deaths if the players don't do something? Additionally, if Sloxx's ship is destroyed or lost, the area around Naupactus (Lapanto's name after repatriation.) will be ravaged by the 2007 Greek Forest Fires. Who knows what lost Sontaran technology might be recovered in the aftermath? And who might recover it?

[garethl]

The Scorched Planet

Introduction: The planet Caligulon V, was a wealthy and influential planet. That was before the Sontarans came and turned it into one of their clone planets. The planet was stripped of all native live by a few days of ion-bombardment. The War against the Rutans is still going strong and the Sontarans are suffering heavy losses. The Rutans have already conquered Caligulon I and III and are now heading towards the Caligulon V. Unbeknownst to the Rutans, Caligulon V is rigged with subterranean antimatter bombs, set to explode when the Rutan fleet will orbit the planet. But why is there a distress call?


Things To Do: Find the person or persons emitting the signal. Warn of lure the Rutan fleet. Deactivate the bombs

Antagonists: The leftover Sontaran soldiers. The not fully developed clones. The Rutans.

Action Scenes: Stopping the approaching Rutan fleet/destroy the fleet. The ticking bombs. Restarting the stranded cargo ship. Flying away from the explosion. Hacking the monitoring satellites..

Visuals: Large underground network of bombs glowing with energy. The Rutan fleet approaching. The rows and rows of Sontaran clone vats.

Problems: The approaching Rutan fleet might start preliminary orbital bombardment. The civilian ship might not want to leave, because it wants to collect an art object from before the Sontarans. The Sontarans will shoot everyone leaving the planet.

Things To Prepare For: [/b The crew of the crashed ship.

Continuing The Adventure: The art object shows up later. The Rutans used the captured Sontaran technology to create a biological weapon.

[Doctor X]

Cool story, Garethl. How's mine?