STORY QUESTION: The Telestrian Family

[BionicDance]

I know I've heard of the Telestrians before, from at least one of Nigel Findley's novels--best Shadowrun books there are, in my never-humble opinion--but I don't remember a lot.

So my question is this: Were they a prominent part of the Shadowrun universe in general, or were they appropriated from Findley's novels for this game? I know Jake Armitage is an homage to an older video game too...I'm wondering about the Telestrians.

[looorg]

Not really, I own more or less all of the first, second and third edition books and the novels and the Telestrians or Telestrian Industries are not really big players, certainly featured but not big or prominent. I think Findley used them in Lone wolf, Lynne Telestrian was in that book to as I recall it. But they are not like Ares, Aztechnology or Saeder-Krupp HI or anything like that.

But then it's a roleplaying game so you can make them as big and important as you like or totally ignore them if you want. If you or your runners make lots of visits to Tir Tairngire, have alot of dealing with the immortal elfs, the council of princes, the YET, the Ancients etc then sure they do become quite imporant but beyond that they are not all that important. Telestrian Ind. was not a AAA corp but a "only" A (or was it AA, I cant recall) corp so they are not one of the big dogs but still ofcause big enough.

Do they belong in the game? Well I got the feeling that the game/story/adventure is a mix of a lot of the first and second edition adventure books tied together, alot of them deal with the Universal Brotherhood, the immortal elfs (such as Harlequin) and what eventually reaches the climax in Bug City. So in that regard I guess they do belong. But it could just as well have been another corp really.

[BionicDance]

Thanks.
And I have to admit, I'm noticing a lot of parallels between this game and the novels; the whole bugs-taking-over thing reminds me a lot of what ultimately happened in "2XS", for example.