I am afraid that I am really too busy/lazy to realistically go back to actual playing, but I am still reading stuff and musing about RPG campaigns and themes.
One of these would be some sea or ocean epic, in modern or close to modern (pulp? cyberpunk?) times.
I keep finding interesting articles about this, and I have finally decided to start collecting these.
Most of this stuff comes from posts on Hacker’s News and in these cases I link to the original thread, because often the ensuing discussion will point to extra resources or will stimulate new ideas.
One of these would be some sea or ocean epic, in modern or close to modern (pulp? cyberpunk?) times.
I keep finding interesting articles about this, and I have finally decided to start collecting these.
Most of this stuff comes from posts on Hacker’s News and in these cases I link to the original thread, because often the ensuing discussion will point to extra resources or will stimulate new ideas.
- The last great analog frontier about the difficulty of mapping oceanic traffic even in the 21st century.
- A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters In 2013, the Lyubov Orlova, a Russian Cruise ship weighing over 4,251 tons broke free from its towing line as it was being delivered from Canada to a scrapyard in the Dominican Republic.
- Secrets of the deep - What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms.
- Thunder goes under - After a chase lasting 110 days—the world’s longest maritime pursuit—the Sea Shepherd Society finally got its catch
- The container ship tourism industry - interesting for Traveller, too…
- Anarchy at sea - a long essay on modern days (article is from 2008) piracy.
- Huge backlog of ships piling up at Panama Canal (from a late 2015 article on gcaptain.com).
- An Engadget article about modern day pirates hacking a shipping company to find cargoes to target.
- Where oil rigs go to die - The Guardian
- When pirates studied Euclides - Aeon
- The Sargasso ecosystem - National Geographic