2400AD Notes: 2
Dec. 24th, 2002 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAccording to the recent GURPS Traveller sourcebook Rim of Fire: The Solomani Rim Sourcebook, "[a]t about [-5000 Imperial, roughly 480 BCE], the Vilani established their first foothold in the Rim, at Karpaty (then called Lakish) [in the Harlequin subsector]." (38) For the purposes of the 2400AD timeline, I'll assume that the Ziru Sirka advanced no further. There likely won't be a notable Vilani presence in the Alpha Crucis sector. In the Solomani Rim sector, there would be a Vilani presence in the coreward area of Harlequin sector around Karpaty, but the Ultima sector to spinward has "always been a backwater, far from trade routes and main regions of colonization [...] only thinly settled during the First Imperium" (63). The Azaremiid Cluster in the trailing portion of the Suleiman Sector, a "jump-1 accessible group" (678), could well attract settlement; the world of Ascalon (hex 1207) attracted Vilani immigrants under the First Imperium owing to its wealth in industrial materials and the potentially fertile soil of its ocean bottoms, and when the Terrans arrived in Canon Traveller "they found a thriving civilization and a population in the hundreds of millions." (70) Still, it seems likely that without any reasno to expand further to rimward, the Azaremiid Cluster would be the furthest outpost of Vilani civilization in this direction--the Chinese Arm arcs well away from Azaremiid, and Pentapod space might be near Karpaty, but not close enough to the forward elements of the Ziru Sirka to necessarily attract notice. 2300AD's Colonial Atlas can stand unchallenged as a descriptor of near-Sol space.
The eight races indigenous to the rimward and trailing sectors of the Solomani Rim--the Earth humans, the Ebers, the Kafers, the Klaxun, the Pentapods, the Sung, the Xiang, and the Ylii--would form an astrographically tight-knit cluster of races. (The only other race in the Solomani Rim sector, apart from the Vegans now lacking in this scenario, are the Ugarup of Ultima subsector, but this aquatic race was at a Stone Age level when the Vilani arrived (34) and never established any significant offworld presence anyway (65-66), besides being distant from 2300AD's field of operations. They could be incorporated or left out at will, since they're a marginal species.) The terminal war of the Eber interstellar civilization appears to have ended only a few centuries before the Vilani entered the Solomani Rim sector, and the Pentapods have--somehow--managed to hide from the Ziru Sirka. (Perhaps a frighteningly advanced Pentapod biotechnology managed to ward off Vilani interest--haunted space, perhaps?)
Thoughts?
The eight races indigenous to the rimward and trailing sectors of the Solomani Rim--the Earth humans, the Ebers, the Kafers, the Klaxun, the Pentapods, the Sung, the Xiang, and the Ylii--would form an astrographically tight-knit cluster of races. (The only other race in the Solomani Rim sector, apart from the Vegans now lacking in this scenario, are the Ugarup of Ultima subsector, but this aquatic race was at a Stone Age level when the Vilani arrived (34) and never established any significant offworld presence anyway (65-66), besides being distant from 2300AD's field of operations. They could be incorporated or left out at will, since they're a marginal species.) The terminal war of the Eber interstellar civilization appears to have ended only a few centuries before the Vilani entered the Solomani Rim sector, and the Pentapods have--somehow--managed to hide from the Ziru Sirka. (Perhaps a frighteningly advanced Pentapod biotechnology managed to ward off Vilani interest--haunted space, perhaps?)
Thoughts?
