John Savage

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JPS Gleed's Classic Traveller Adventures in the Agrarian Commonwealth

Johnathon (John) C. Savage, Admiral
Nickname: Glassjaw
Assumed Attributes: (Original 9AEEBA, After recovery BBFEBA) Mustered Age 38 to Age 45
Terms: 4 - Reactivated, Agrarian Commonwealth Navy
Skills:
Vacc Suit 3, SMG 1, Laser Carbine 1, Gunnery 1, Engineering 2, Pilot 3, Battle Dress 1, Navigation 2, Tactics 1

Description: sandy brown hair, blue eyes, 6ft tall, 195lbs.
Posessions:
reflec armor, wardrobe (several naval uniforms, safari-style ruggedwear cloths), Vacc Suit, Standard wrist watch, Suspended animation watch (replace battery/capsule every 2 mo), wedding ring, white sound device, Personalized Battle Dress(royal blue), Cont. Range communicator, comb. face mask, engineering tool kit, cerimonial navy sword, Red Death Blade, LI Goggles, shield belt, grav belt, dart gun, LAG, and letter of intro. from King Merclear.
Holdings:
Co-owner (w/wife) The Excalibur Project (TEP) corp. approx value 220Mcr. Later merged with Zuezes Holdings.

Ships;

Griffon 300t close escort (privately funded several refits),
Excalibur a modified 800t merc cruiser (destroyed in pirate battle),
a 400t stealth destroyer escort, 1000t tender, and
3-300t dutchman class freighters.

Savage's History
John was born on the Agrarian world of Skional to merchant Captain David Savage and Anne (Baxton) Savage. David sold his ship "St George" and settled on their homeworld of Skional refurbishing the family Plantation, "Tortova".
John served a term in college at the RNA and 4 terms in the navy. After a year he was, re-activivated, spent 6 year hunting pirates and fighting the war. His injuries at the Battle of Pelcrest were 3 years into the war and required 6 months of convalescence.

Initial Service Record Attachments:

Cadet Royal Navy Academy,
Gunner on the 10kt cruiser Guiles,
Engineer on the 800t merc. cruiser Longblade, and
Pilot of the 600t courier Dartysmyth.

Re-Activated Service Record:

Commander Griffon 300t close escort,
Captain Starlowe 3000t cruiser,
Fleet Captain 14th Vengeance Squadron, Olney Fleet - Olney
Commodore 14th Vengeance Fleet (squadron was expanded and upgraded)
Fleet Admiral 14th Vengeance Fleet - Drexel (after the fall of Olney)
Fleet Admiral 14th VF - Drexel, Commandant Royal Navy Academy

Adventure(s) Synopsis:
Commander John Savage served 5 terms in the Navy and mustered out on Drexel (a Lebanon like divided world). There he met, fell for and married adventurous Jackie Brown. He quickly discovered his new wife to be a billionaire recluse.
Shortly after the marriage he is reactivated by His Highness and works to the wartime promotion of Admiral and the conclusion of the war...

Recovered lost 400t subsidized merchant ship
Defended 5,000t luxury liner from Pirates in the capital system of Epilose VIII, while on his Honeymoon. Awarded audience with King & Queen MerClear and a letter of introduction. Savage is reactivated in the Commonwealth Navy with command of a pirate hunting, 300t close escort, A.C.S. Griffon. Savage drags his crew, team of friends and wife on excursions to rid Epilose of its piracy activities.
While on Epilose John and Jackie form the ship manufacturing company, TEP. The Excalibur Project, Inc. is tasked with constructing a state of the art 800-ton Mercenary Cruiser, Excalibur, as its first project.
Griffon, destroys 2 pirate bases and 1 400t corsair ship. Damaged and faught off a 2nd 400t ship commanded by the feared pirate Broderick. A missjump required a long trip back to Agrarian space, from the Republic, lowering crew morale.

The ship was in such bad condition that a ship's head and other systems were canabalized to assure survival.
How the vessel jumped to Albion is still classified, Top Secret.

Deadsticked the severely damaged Griffon into landing on the forward starport at Albion. A paranoid aAdmiral shipped Savage, crew and ship back to Epilose for courtmarshal after calling out a planet-wide war alert for what he thought must have been a terrorist activity by the neighboring Industrial Union of the Stars (IUS).
While being tried on a 1,440t Cascade class cruiser, Broderick attacks the cruiser and 800t merc cruiser. The Excalibur is lost in her first action before Savage can take command. Savage boards the Griffon attempting to fight Broderick per the Cascade commanders order. Broderick jumps Savage missjumps in an attempt to follow him.
Deep in enemy territory, Industrial Union of the Stars, the Griffon tricks and destroys 20 400dt zdits ships, 2 sub merchants and other assets.
Upon returning to Epsilon the crew discovers that war broke out with the IUS. While the crew was on Epilose the IUS attacked Albion and quickly overan these assets. Charges against Savage are dropped after Savage and team meet Sir Negav Zuezes - they work to squash plots of nuclear terrorism within the capital.
Promoted to Captain Savage and given command of Zuezes' untested 3000t Starlowe cruiser & escorts. Their first attack behind enemy lines captures a 10 million ton repair facility and a 10k cruiser - the use of a new marine force, the Legionaires, is instrumental in this boarding action.
Savage instructs TEP to refit a 75,000ton IUS warship left for dead in AG territory from the First War, renamed Fire Palace. TEP is also instructed to setup bases on Drexel and the Epilose gas giant moon of Manilus. This is the first step in an alliance between the naval officers and an effort to use their influences to win the war.
Fleet Captain Savage and team assemble a suicide assault on the ememy homeworld Baylis, project code name is Border Patrol. Former Grand Admiral Negav Zuezes (PC) assists in assembling the 14th Vengeance fleet and accompanies the fleet as an advisor. After reaching the enemy homeworld and inflicting heavy losses on enemy forces, it is agreed that they should make an effort to return home with the intelligence they accumulated. The team slowely returns with heavy losses. Actions of the fleet are now well known throughout both empires.
John and Jackie are injured in a ship's boat accident. Jackie seperates in an effort to recover from her more severe wounds. John continues to fighting after the assassination of his friend and leader, the Admiral of Merclear.

Uncofirmed rumors that Jackie was actually pregnant with Johnny Savage.

Former Grand Admiral Negav Zuezes is reactivated by his Majesty, with permission. Savage is given command of the Agrarian Fleets flagship, Royal Sovereign, a 125,000t Battleship.
GA Negav Zuezes and recently promoted Commodore Savage, with only 37 capital ships and 300 escorts in the 14th Vengenace Fleet, lead the Battle of Pelcrest in an effort to destroy IUS's largest fleet and undermine their largest economy. Although highly sucessful, rebel units (influenced by PCs and Jackie) start to overthrow Pelcrest, heavy losses begin a war of attrition. The enemy launches blockades against several Agrarian worlds while nuking Epilose. The home fleet fails to defend against the attack. The king is killed in initial attacks, the capital and naval academy destroyed. Her highness becomes the reigning monarch of the Agrarian Commonwealth.
Reserves reach Pelcrest and Savage returns with his original 14th fleet to his base at Drexel in an effort to hold off a significant invasion force. See the declassified "Battle of Drexel IUS After Action Report" for additional details.
The majority of AC fleets are tied up in a battle for Pelcrest. Savage returns to Pelcrest in an attempt to turn the tides of battle and break the attrition. Savage is severely injured in the assault and is returned to Drexel by Negav Zuezes. Where he makes a complete recovery.

It was briefly rumored that Savage was near death and cloned but this was never confirmed while yet other rumors suggested it was a tough recovery. It is known that Savage wore a non-military regulation BattleDress armour in combat.

Savage returns to command of the 14th VF at Drexel for the remainder of the war.
The IUS sues for peace as their war effort has nearly backrupted their interstellar economy. Her Royal Highness Merclear accepts the conditions for peace in hopes of rebuilding.
Savage goes through his records while commanding the Drexel defense. Sends promotions, awards, medals and commodations to those who served under him during the war, both surviving and postumously. Also sends letters of sympathy to those surviving relatives of people serving under his command. Basically, catches up on all of the paperwork.
Savage begins rebuilding the Royal Navy Academy and advising on a new Navy structure and social programs.

Records
1. Intercepted Enemy Transmission - Battle of Drexel - IUS After Action Report
2. Inflicted an estimated enemy loss rate of 100 IUS Navy personnel per 1 AC person. Ground and support personnel statistics are not available.
3. Officially noted as demoralizing enemy forces on several occasions including the Vengeance Fleets suicide mission to the IUS homeworld that officially destroyed various enemy squadrons, and captured assets.
4. Decisive support for the assault and overthrow of the IUS on their largest industrial system, Pelcrest.

Off the Record

It is believed that Negav Zuezes and Admiral Savage were good friends. It is a matter of record that they merged their businesses becoming partners.
Jackie and Savage seperated and continued drifting apart while she continues her efforts to overthrow local IUS forces on Pelcrest. It is rumored that she assisted in saving Pelcrest from IUS nuclear destruction per Savage's special operations.
Savage is assumed to be involved in the restructure of Her Majesties Military Intelligence, Clandestine Operations Secret Service (MICOSS).
The rumored stealth ship might have been a rebuilt, captured IUS 400dt Zhdits destroyer escort. It isbelieved that Savage used an alternate vessel during several operations while the Griffon was under refit.

Brief on Negav Zuezes (To know Savage is to know his friends and Allies)
Zuezes retired as a Jump Marine Lieutenant from the Marine Corps. He graduated from college with a flight surgeon degree and transferred into the Navy Command Branch. During the Second War, Zuezes was promoted to the rank of Grand Admiral. He retired and was eventually knighted after the close of the war when he actively participated in government and his personal buisness. At the outbreak of the Second War we was re-activated by His Highness, King Merclear.

Jackie (Brown) Savage was a known resident of Drexel. She's is an attractive but reclusive woman. The source of her wealth is assumed to be very, successful business dealing.

Game Description
JPS Gleed design of the tri-empire system environment could be compared to a world where the British Commonwealth and the Soviet Union go to war while the US and remainder of Europe sit it out. After a decade of play, there were many stories left out or briefly mentioned. These adventures are a matter of Agrarian Commonwealth Public Record, rumors of other activities such as the Savage Clone have never been confirmed. [Wink]

Authors Note: This was the first Traveller universe I participated in. It inspired me to begin my own Traveller Universe. When I "re-created" My Traveller Universe (MTU) in 2003-4, I decided to incorporate my design for the Royal Navy Academy into the infrastructure as a re-organized remnant of the Imperium. This website is named for that organization.

Classic Traveller is copyrighted by FarFutures. The Adventures in the Agrarian Commonwealth are copyrighted by JPS Gleed. John Savage is copyrighted by Scott White. Discussion of the AC and Gleed's Traveller campaign are printed with permission.