Linking scenarios and Portsmouth

> Tomb : PS - Sounds like I'd prefer Southampton to Portsmouth (no one 
shooting at me,
> beer and friendly women).

Having grew up in Portsmouth, lived and hungs around some of the seedier

areas (not somethign I want to boast about) and worked in the Naval Base

(opposite that marvellous 250-year-old Home Fleet flagship "HMS
Victory") I 
can confirm it went downhill as the fleet went downhill.

"Ladies of a certain Reputation" (as my mother used to call them) used
to 
travel down on the train from London when a major ship
(battleship/carrier) 
or squadron came in to the harbour station, and queue up outside the
main 
gate to attract custom.  Alternatively, the matloes had a chance to
visit 
any of the 10-12 bars in a row on the harbour front leading, only 20
yards 
across the road from the gates, as well as a large number of very, ummm,

"friendly" houses in the backstreets nearby (now cleared up).  The Naval

Provost was a very regular sight....

Why is this not off-topic?  Whilst I'm not suggest Umm Qasr (?) will
turn 
into something similar it's just a reminder (perhaps *very* useful for 
scenarios around spaceports) that the old Traveller 
grime_and_lowlife_around_starport is still likely to hold true in the 
GZG-verse.

New Southampton or New Portsmouth anyone?  ;-)

Tim Bancroft

PS btw, Southampton isn't actually that much better than Portsmouth....
at 
least Portsmouth has _shedloads_ of military history.