Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
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Tsunami Media, Inc.
Tsunami Media, Inc. was founded by Edmond Heinbockel in the summer of 1991. The company was based in Oakhurst, California, adjacent to Yosemite National Park, a place well-known in gaming history. The company location wasn't a coincidence, as Heinbockel had been CFO of Sierra On-Line.
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It has been an era of peaceful cooperation between Humans and Kzinti. The Man-Kzin wars are
little more than a rapidly fading memory to most humans and even a few Kzinti.
Twenty years have elapsed since the Human, Louis Wu, and the Kzin, Speaker-to-Animals, returned
from the Ringworld. Their journey is still a great secret to all but the most highly placed in
the UN and Kzinti Patriarchy. The technology that the Puppeteers revealed to Wu and Speaker has
resulted in a major collaboration between Earth and Kzin to produce the fastest ship known to
either of their species, The Hyperdrive II.
Technology, however, is not all that Speaker and Wu brought back from their trip to the Ringworld.
They also possessed knowledge that the Puppeteers had involved both humans and Kzinti in a breeding
experiment of unheard of proportion. Humans were bred for luck, and Kzin were culled for passivity.
The UN reaction has been a heightening of internal scrutiny of affairs within their domain. After all,
a lucky humanity was quite possibly a good thing.
The Kzin response has been a bit more negative, as the Puppeteer's covert actions have resulted in the
deaths of generations of hot-tempered warriors during the Man-Kzin wars. The Patriarch was outraged,
his desire for revenge nearly overwhelming.
But he Puppeteers have failed badly in their attempt to pacify the Kzinti. Far from breeding a more
passive Kzin, they have produced a species even more cunning and dangerous. Instead of immediately
lashing out as a Kzin from the era prior to the Man-Kzin wars would surely have done, the Patriarch
plans the revenge of the Kzinti with great care and secrety.
The empire of Kzin has worked with the UN on the Hyperdrive II project with the ulterior motive of
building a second, nearly identical, ship. The differences are solely in armament. The Kzinti vessel,
among its weapons, mounts a massive Slaver Disrupter Cannon capable of disintegrating an entire planet.
The UN ship is completely unarmed.
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch is an interactive story game set in the realm of Known Space
created by best-selling author Larry Niven.
In an game, you control the actions of one of the major characters in the story. You play a human
mercenary named Quinn. As you play, you will control Quinn's decisions and actions. Various obstacles
are placed in Quinn's path and you must determine the best course of action to surmount them. Your
judgment and wits are directly responsible for moving the story along.
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