Re: [TML] Tech levels during different times Phil Pugliese 20 Apr 2016 06:41 UTC
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As far as I know the Solomani have continued expanding to Rimward straight thru the Long Night up to the present. I figure there must be some worlds out there that would be easy pickings. Also, the Aslan did grab Glisten didn't they? Hi-Pop, HiTL. And the Aslan had little love for the SolConfed. Surely there must've been constant conflict 'tween the aslan & solomani along their border. I do agree about the areas to 'trailing' but, in the end, I think it was just part of DGP's brief to "shake things up". Injecting a large number of aslan into the 'Marches achieved that for sure! And so they gained a nice, neat, & tidy sector with a whole lot more potential for excitement than before. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 4/19/16, Kenneth Barns <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] Tech levels during different times To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 6:32 PM You mean in the Rebellion Era? Rebellion Sourcebook suggests that ihatei (and their descendants) tended to be disproportionately sent "over the rift" to Trojan Reach. Upon hearing of upheavals in the 3I, in 1117 local Fleet Dispatcher said, "What the hell, try your luck over the Imperial border." Their success in squatting on underpopulated Imperial worlds encouraged more migrants. Formal Aslan fleets came later. The other factor is population density. I get the impression that the Aslan were more concerned about open spaces than worlds per se. Even if the Solomani government and fleets were weak, the spinward sectors of the Confederation were more likely to be already densely populated. No squatting here, you'd need to launch a war of conquest. And weak though the Confederation was compared to the Imperium (especially in the early aftermath of the Rim War), it would still have been much more powerful than any single clan, or conceivable coalition of clans. So for that reason, generations of ihatei had gone coreward, rimward, and spinward ... but not trailing into the Solomani Sphere. A better question would be: why didn't more of them go trailing into Ustral, Uistilao and beyond? --Cheers! Ken On 20 April 2016 at 10:11, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: This email was sent from yahoo.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (xxxxxx@yahoo.com) has been replaced with a dummy one. The original message follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Then, of course, that raises the question of why all the Aslan ihatei that later flooded the 3I weren't already flooding the SolConfed? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please goto http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=EwREIRgLK8vaUEhNlnoNdSGKwnjoID8a