ATU assistance

[BillDowns]

Need some help for a few good words. I'm setting up a one sector ATU for my son and his friends to get acquainted with mongoose Traveller. I don't like the 3I

In the human polity, I have 3 levels of world membership and i need some cool words to indicate those levels.

The top tier are the earth-like garden worlds, the home of these lost humans, the most populous and powerful. Think trade codes Rich, Garden, etc. I had thought about using "protenoi" which sounds better than Tier 1.

The next tier are the marginal worlds, but still have a million or so inhabitants. Trace codes like Non-Industrial, Non-Ag. My tentative name is "defteroi".

The lowest tier, would those small places, all basically in O'Neill style colonies with populations under 100,000. I was thinking of "mikroi".

Anybody have anything better?

 

[kilmore]

Is this area all that's explored? Or are they just set up in their own little corner of the wide, wide universe?

Are all the worlds part of the same political entity?

Breaking away from the 3I, you can arrange your worlds a bit more sensibly. Going from the humans spreading out from a homeworld, they will heavily settle anything within J-1, then J-2. This will be the core of the four subsectors in the middle.

Once they get to J-3 in the fringes of the core subsectors, they will start discriminating between worlds that they settle, though over the years, there will be a settlement of some sort on almost anything.

In the outer subsectors when they reach J-4, only the choicest worlds in a subsector, maybe one or two at most, will be heavily settled. Each of these worlds will place several mid-range colonies which may or may not have scored their political independence over the years. Still, they will probably still be culturally linked to the homeworld. These mid-range worlds will usually be habitable, if terraformed, but not particularly hospitable. The little worlds in between are inhospitable and house scientific crews, prospectors and miners, far-flung military bases, terraforming crews, exiles, hermits, and pirate bases.

Also, mid-grade worlds will spring up along routes between major worlds, like gas-station towns along the interstate.

Once J-5 and J-6 become common, which they aren't in a typical Traveller game, the centers of population get a little further and further apart, and worlds that used to be a common stop along shorter jump routes find themselves cut out of the loop and left more to fend for themselves.

Surrounding this inhabited sector (as long as there's no other interstellar entity in the way) is a diffuse halo of minor grade inhabited worlds.

 

[BillDowns]

Well, no, that's not the setting I am setting up. Basically, there was a group of settlers that left Earth to set up their own "Garden of Eden". The parting was somewhat hostile and they were pursued for a time by warships. Later, after Earth forces quit chasing them, they wandered through unfriendly stars, running into hostile aliens, or provoking aliens into hostility. After some 6 centuries, they wound up in my sector. They settled on the only 5 worlds that more than 90% earth-like. Those are the protonoi, as I have been using the term.

Soon after, their tech from the ships failed - 6 centuries of abuse had finally reduced everything to lumps of plastic & silicon. They managed to get scientific, technical, agricultural, medical knowledge printed but not their own history. So, a couple of centuries later, all the old media has deteriorated beyond the point of recovery, and all they remember about Earth is a memory of a garden world that was infected with an evil from which they fled.

 

[MCEvans]

As for naming Adv 4 in CT had a good one that might work for your top tier "T-prime" this indicated that the main world was very much earth like.
The "T" stood for Terra or earth.

 

[robject]

Need some help for a few good words. I'm setting up a one sector ATU for my son and his friends to get acquainted with mongoose Traveller. I don't like the 3I

In the human polity, I have 3 levels of world membership and i need some cool words to indicate those levels.

The top tier are the earth-like garden worlds, the home of these lost humans, the most populous and powerful. Think trade codes Rich, Garden, etc. I had thought about using "protenoi" which sounds better than Tier 1.

The next tier are the marginal worlds, but still have a million or so inhabitants. Trace codes like Non-Industrial, Non-Ag. My tentative name is "defteroi".

The lowest tier, would those small places, all basically in O'Neill style colonies with populations under 100,000. I was thinking of "mikroi".

Anybody have anything better?

Firefly. Borrow world names and conditions from Firefly. Its hierarchy is much like you describe.

 

[BillDowns]

To expound upon the setting, I am trying for a heroic age pseudo Greek situation with nomadic barbarians thrown in for good measure.

Astrographically, this sector has a band of stars across the coreward edge, with 3 rimward extensions. The middle one is where the humans are, with 30+ stars in that extension.

Inhabiting the trailing edge of that band are the "barbarians" although they are known to roam all over the sector. They can be traded with, but watch your hair!

In the trailing extension live another alien race. It is possible for J2 ships to get there from the Human space, so there is some, albeit limited contact. From them, humans have learned of another race, somewhere rimward and spinward, however, these "trojans" are blocking any travel down their cluster to this 3rd race - the "egyptians" of the setting.

Off in the spinward extension, lies yet a 4th race but the humans have not encountered them. These will prove to be the "romans/etruscans" of the setting.

 

[BillDowns]

Further note: I will basically be re-casting Traveller's aliens into these roles but haven't made any final decisions.

For the barbarians, my inclination is to use Vargr, or a new race I have in mind. The "romans" will likely be Aslan, maybe Vargr if I go against them as barbarians.

The "trojans" and "egyptians" will likely be Hivers or K'Kree. However, one of them may be Aslan in a chain-reaction to my barbarian decision.

There will also be a few minor - non-starfaring - races.

Any input on these assignments would also be appreciated.

 

[Doyle Hunt]

Need some help for a few good words. I'm setting up a one sector ATU for my son and his friends to get acquainted with mongoose Traveller. I don't like the 3I

In the human polity, I have 3 levels of world membership and i need some cool words to indicate those levels.

The top tier are the earth-like garden worlds, the home of these lost humans, the most populous and powerful. Think trade codes Rich, Garden, etc. I had thought about using "protenoi" which sounds better than Tier 1.

The next tier are the marginal worlds, but still have a million or so inhabitants. Trace codes like Non-Industrial, Non-Ag. My tentative name is "defteroi".

The lowest tier, would those small places, all basically in O'Neill style colonies with populations under 100,000. I was thinking of "mikroi".

Anybody have anything better?

I'm not a fan of made-up words just for the sake of making up words. Unless your tiers are intended to represent a ranking in an alien language— and you will use other examples of the language in your setting— it might be better to stick with the classics, namely Latin: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary. Your players will thank you.

 

[Dragoner]

Don't forget the Sea Peoples.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_peoples

 

[mike wightman]

First wave, second wave, frontier.

Primaries, colonies, frontier

Old worlds, new worlds, frontier.

 

[Dragoner]

Esperanto:

Starigis: Primary Settled

Intera: Secondary Intermediate

Kolonio: Tertiary Colony

 

[mike wightman]

What was the native language of the original settlers?

Some current Earth language or something else?

 

[BillDowns]

Don't forget the Sea Peoples.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_peoples

Oooh! Thanks - forgot about them

Does sound like they could be several different species. Might be even better

 

[BillDowns]

What was the native language of the original settlers?

Some current Earth language or something else?

The original settlers were dissidents from all over the globe, but mostly from US, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe who objected to a world government.

I derived the names from Greek, in part because I am shooting for that Heroic Age feel. Prota = First, as in Proteus - First Man. Defteros = Second. Mikro = small.

And typically in Greek, at leat as it appears to me, peoples have a suffix of -oi, as in Athenoi - citizens of Athens.

 

[BillDowns]

Esperanto:

Starigis: Primary Settled

Intera: Secondary Intermediate

Kolonio: Tertiary Colony

Like that, too. Forgot about Esperanto.

 

[Dragoner]

That Starigis sounds particularly cool.

Otherwise in english (galanglic) I might go for:

T-Prime

Colony

Outpost

But your greek derived names are also cool.