Thoughts on Attendants: Gathering Theory tells us that: Cassandra/Twig/Cabry-born-Tinoori/Ruehan: a bit light on the humans Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Kith/Max: a little light on the outworlds, a little light on the aliens but 3 might be overkill. Light on anyone from one of the actual Hegemonies. What 5th would make this group better?--a Hive whale from Nonesuch. :) (You'd get another outworld data point, as well as pulling the delineation of the inworlds out to the edge. You'd get two more aliens for the price of one, to boot.) Or an uplift from Red or Blue (to add a bit of humanity, a bit of alien, and some major governmental force). [we also think Vertaki might give some credit for both alien and human. hooray!] **my current thought: Brocoah/Tinoori/Max (or Mirris)/Ruehan or Kith/Eva or Kye Note: the people we have who are good in PRE *and* FOR: Max, Ciernan, Mirris, Kith; Ruehan's starting to get marginal in FOR, as is Kye (but remember you can add FOR to FOR and Kye has implants!). Most of the FOR group has no PRE to speak of, which is the real problem, since we can't drain all the PRE people into the FOR group to make them Attendants. Also note Attendants need psi theory as well; neither Kye nor Mirris has any. (Eva would have to buy up, too.) Tom/Jim points out: It occurs to me that the Attendants don't have to have a high PrePsi if they have fortune and karma. For instance, Ace or Eva or I could spend a karma to use all their fortune and get 11 or 12 dice on the PsiTHhory roll. This doesn't help without having a fair amount of skill (12 dice needs 6 skill to rate 5 9s), but if people wanted to spend the points on PsiTheory, that would give us different Attendant options, letting the high PrePsi people go with Jayla. --in which case we might want to consider Eva rather than Kye, for example. New sets considered: > > a) Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Ruehan/Max > > b) Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Kith/Ruehan/Max > > c) Twig/Cabbry-Tinoori/Kith/Max/Eva > > d) Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Kith/Max/Kye > > e) Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Ruehan/Max/Eva > > f) Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Ruehan/Max/Kye > > g) is Mirris functionally equivilant to Max? > 5 successes (also 5 successes w/ psi theory) Result: The ones that have no females other than (possibly) the unstated Cabry Tinoori are light on females. The first is light on humans. The ones without Ruehan are light on aliens. The one with Kith and Ruehan is the only one which is not light on outworlders. Kye and Eva are both good representatives of "hegemonic human". Mirris is more female than Max. **OK, that sounds like maybe Twig/Tinoori/Kith/Ruehan/Eva (or Kye, possibly depending on the Tinoori's gender) is the optimization here. Though we should test it. Eva is better in the sense that she's already in the Blue group, as is Kith. [2 male, 2 female, 1 something. 2 outworld, 3 inworld, of which two are only nominally from major governments and the third is very much so, both Blue and Red covered; 5 planets of origin, the inworld ones not at the poles but reasonably distributed. 3 alien including the original participating races, 2 human.] [These 3 PCs all ve some Psi Theory but Kith and Eva probably need more. Eva would have to spend Fortune = karma to get the PrePsi dice. Ruehan doesn't have the world's highest FOR and Kith doesn't have the world's highest PRE, but a couple of fortune dice would fix that. Kith and Eva need to be in the Blue/Puce group anyhow.] [Still need to acquire a Tinoori and decide if we need a spiffer-psi rocoah than Twig (he'd need a pretty high skill to rate 5 successes, though not ridiculous if we're assuming buffing).] Third round of considering: > > Attendant groups: > > Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Ruehan/Kith/Eva > > Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Ruehan/Kith/Cassandra > > Twig/Cabry-Tinoori/Ruehan/Max/Cassandra > > Target: 7. Successes: 5. The last is light on outworlders. The first is the only one so far that isn't light on non-psis, but you think that's not so much of a hole as it could be, given that it's a psi ritual. Still, it does close that hole. Covering current-Hegemonics (Eva) is a bigger hole to close than covering lost-Hegemonics (Cassandra) or special-case-inworlds (Max). **Sounds like a confirmation! Time to propose this set (Twig/Tinoori/Ruehan/Kith/Eva) to the crew and see if it gets shot down on logistical grounds!