Sontaran/Rutan Story ideas

[izlear]

I was at a con this weekend and I had an idea for a neat adventure seed. A spaceship is boarded a group of sontarans. There are 5 or so of them. There is something odd about them. They shout crazily (even more so than normal) about the Sontaran might, and they seem as they are charachatures of the race.

In the course of action even when sontarans may be killed there is alway 5 of them.

-What is actually going on?- the sontarans are actually a group of rutans who are shape shifted as sontarans trying to frame them for the boarding of a ship of one of their allies.



Alternate idea. There is a group of sontarans on a delegation ship with other races, and there appears to be a murderer aboard. . . all evidence points to a sontaran, but alas it is a rutan making trouble.

[da professor]

I'm surprised the Rutans haven't tried something like this before.
I'm appalled that I didn't think of it. Karma.

[Curufea]

Rutans don't appear to be this devious - possibly its because they are (possibly non-canon) very hive minded - but most likely because they don't want to involve any races other than themselves and the Sontarans.

As I understand it - the Sontarans invaded their space - the Rutans aren't expansionists.

[izlear]

Your probably right about that, I had not thought about Rutan personality or motive. It just seemed like an obvious story for two races at war. Perhaps as the war progresses the rutans are pushed to change tactic.

[Craig Oxbrow]

Perhaps someone else who wants the Sontarans on the back foot suggests it to them, after helping them capture a Sontaran squad transport to aid in the ruse.

Someone with a rubbish beard or shabbily bleached hair, possibly.

[Curufea]

Jun 7, 2010 4:07:46 GMT izlear said:

Your probably right about that, I had not thought about Rutan personality or motive. It just seemed like an obvious story for two races at war. Perhaps as the war progresses the rutans are pushed to change tactic.

I'm going to backtrack on that actually - prior to the Time War, it appeared that galactic empires operated fairly independantly of each other, with few governing organisation similar to the earth UN or conventions.
But post Time War, with the Shadow Proclamation - there may be reasons to appeal to the greater galactic community in times of war.

[ugavine]

I like this idea.

And imagine the reaction of the cocky PC who targets the vent on the back of the Sontarons neck when it doesn't have the desired effect. Oooo... I can imagine the scene now; PC hits the Sontaran on the back of the neck, the Sontaran turns slowly around and starts glowing green before unleashing an electrical attack on the PC knocking him out. When he comes round he'll be mighty confused.

[Curufea]

There always seemed to be a delay with Rutans and their attacks - as though they need about 10 seconds or so to build up a charge (at least in Horror of Fang Rock). It was usually the humans that were stalked that were killed (giving the Rutan enough time to build the attack) - or the humans that stared in horror and shock for an almost unbelievable length of time that gave the Rutan enough time to change shape/attack.

So if the PCs do what you said, they should be given enough opportunity to possibly try other futile attacks or actions before the Rutan can hurt them.

[da professor]

Jun 16, 2010 1:22:30 GMT Curufea said:

There always seemed to be a delay with Rutans and their attacks - as though they need about 10 seconds or so to build up a charge (at least in Horror of Fang Rock). It was usually the humans that were stalked that were killed (giving the Rutan enough time to build the attack) - or the humans that stared in horror and shock for an almost unbelievable length of time that gave the Rutan enough time to change shape/attack.

So if the PCs do what you said, they should be given enough opportunity to possibly try other futile attacks or actions before the Rutan can hurt them.

Or it could be taken that either Rutans have got better at charging quickly or the one in Horror of Fang Rock charged slowly because it was hurt or adversely affected by being so close to a lot of water.

[Curufea]

Also true - the Horror Rutan may have been atypical for the race.