All Things Vargr

[Condottiere]

vargr

Old Norse

Alternative forms
Vargʀ – East Norse

Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-. Compare Old English wearh, wearg.

Noun
vargr m

1. wolf
2. evildoer
3. destroyer


Evildoing destroyer wolf.

 

[Condottiere]

Santa Claws is coming to Trin.

 

[Condottiere]

Vargr: Going a-Vargring

1. What makes a Vargr go a-Vargring?

2. I think you could narrow it down to three things.

3. Environment - the Vargr chose poorly, colonizing resource poor worlds.

4. Culture - your father was a Vargr, his father was a Vargr, and his father was a Vargr.

5. Genetics - it's just in their blood.

6. They could be very bad resource managers, using them up, and not attempting to balance it off with a sustainable economy.

7. They could be raping their environments, making them unlivable.

8. Extensive civil wars, achieving about the same results.

9. Population bombs.

 

[Spinward Flow]

1. What makes a Vargr go a-Vargring?

 

[Condottiere]

Vargr: Going a-Vargring

A. Fight or flight.

B. They either run away from a problem, or solve it with violence.

C. Or, they find a common enemy.

D. So communications is not necessarily a well developed skill, at least in it's nuances.

E. Negotiation might involve a pay off of some kind, or a distraction.

F. The pay off might be tribute, rather than direct submission; the trick would be not to be so demanding, that the other side decides you're asking for too much.

 

[mike wightman]

Have you ever stopped to think about just how much of charted space is Vargr territory? Check out the size of the Vargr Extents...

 

[Condottiere]

Yes.

And yet, every time their refrigerator dies, they gather their crew and raid the Imperium for a replacement.

 

[Condottiere]

It's also an interesting question what exactly the Vargr industrial base is capable of, or if it ever managed to scale up.

I've don't recall them fielding any large starwarship, and I believe the Zhodani have donated a couple of old cruisers.

 

[BackworldTraveller]

It's also an interesting question what exactly the Vargr industrial base is capable of, or if it ever managed to scale up.

I've don't recall them fielding any large starwarship, and I believe the Zhodani have donated a couple of old cruisers.

From the wiki, and from the Fifth Frontier War game counter set, the polities are capable of operating large warships - they may not all be built by the Vargr (or that Vargr polity) but they definitely operate them. Some of those polities are both large and old.

 

[Condottiere]

It's expand or die; sometimes, expand and die.

Also, that raiding tendency works better against weaker opponents than the Imperium, and time and distance would tend to towards your immediate neighbours, not a six month trek across the sector.

 

[Condottiere]

I'm not particularly enthused about the series, but as I was watching it, I thought that's how Vargr behave.

Not so much Alexander the Great Dane, but William the Basset Hound.