Ditzie
| Ditzie | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2 | |
| Preceded by | Hengabar Spofulam |
|---|---|
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Born | -5 |
| Died | TBD |
Ditzie is a popular pop culture figure within Charted Space.
Description (Biography)[edit]
Lady Ditzamer Iishuuru "Ditzie" Spofulam is the niece of Lord Hengabar Spofulam, head of Famille Spofulam Yards, a niche starship-and-sundry manufacturer in the Core Sector.
Universal Personality Profile (UPP)[edit]
No information yet available.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
FS, established by Feringapar Spofulam, was currenly run by his son, Hengabar Spofulam. Hengabar, through some selective genetic enhancement programmes, managed to produce a number of notable nieces and nephews, but Ditzie is the forefront, achieving notoriety in her abusingly excessive use of Fusion Plus.
As far as we can tell, Ditzie was born in year -005, Day 327 (November 23) Imperial. Known siblings include Shidaar (also born -005) and Niipita Indifar, head of the starship weapons division, who is apparently much older.
Shortly after turning 7, Ditzie (and others, apparently) was moved out of Compliance and promoted to Executive Vice-President of Famile Spofulam's High Energy Solutions branch, where she turned out such abominations as:
- A battledress-mountable PAW gun with a 600km range.
- A 4-meter-long meson gun.
- An elephant-mounted PAW.
- An overpowered PAW that fits on a 200t ship.
- A 100-ton a SDB mounting a 600 megajoule laser, impenetrable armor, a nuclear damper, and more.
- A grav bike capable of 5.7 G's, with room for a weapon.
- A semi-automatic 120 mm gauss gun firing twenty 30 kilo steel darts at 4,000 meters per second in thirty-six seconds.
You get the idea.
Personage Timeline[edit]
No information yet available.
Background (OOC)[edit]
Back around 1997, when Fire, Fusion, and Steel 2 was being readied for production, many members of the Traveller Mailing List tested the system out by designing equipment and ships. One notable designer, Ian Whitchurch, crafted truly amazing things, under the guise of a Milieu 0 company (created by Roderick Darroch Elliott and shared by other TML members) named Famille Spofulam, or FS for short.
Ian, seeing too much power in Fusion Plus, used FS in general, and Ditzie as particular, as a platform for editorializing on an error that saw its way to print.
Unfortunately, Ditzie became a popular celebrity due to her audacity, and the whole point about the abusability of FFS2 was largely ignored.
Ian here. Ditzie might have been part of campaigning against The Abomination Known As Fusion Plus (mostly because it broke the economics of Trav), but she was mostly an excuse to build really, really abusive thing with lots lots lotttssss of fun writing them up up up in a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay that would keep me sane during a fairly crappy part of my life.
On more specific matters, you forgot the Jet Bike (a FFS2-legal TL-6 personal aircraft, powered by a hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide rocket. Zero to a thousand and forty in ten point five flat) But I'm glad the EmPAW got remembered.
3jun08 I'd also argue some specific things, like the PAWs for 200 dton ships, are canonical - at least, they were legal FFS2 implementations of stuff you could do in High Guard. Also, if anyone has classic Ditzie posts/designs from the TML, I'd like them linked *hint* Finally, FS is so Canon - check the stencils on crates on the covers illustrated by Jesse DeGraff on various G:T products. (I couldn't help myself :D - Jesse)
Random reader passing by in the autumn of 2021 AD. Ditzie is terrifying, and will probably become more terrifying when she grows up.
Another random reader - there was a picture of her all grown up that was posted to the TML in the early 2000's
Links[edit]
- Leslie Bates' "Friends in High Places" fiction.
- Ditzie is featured in a Vilani First Grade Primer here.
- Famille Spofulam's Token Website for Terra
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 8-9. (UPP used)
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science