I'm at a loss trying to find detailed information on early contact between Humaniti and the Hivers. It seems there must be something sinister that occurred and the Hivers have deleted any historical records.
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I've gone through CT sources, Gurps sources, and MT sources referencing the Hivers. I don't have a TNE book that mentioned Hivers, but I'm assuming it wouldn't give many details about early Hiver-Human contact. There may be something indirect in a non-specifically Hiver source that I have missed.
The only thing I have come up with so far is a date. Solomani-Hiver first contact in -1802. This is from CT's Alien Module 6 on the Solomani in a timeline. No details just a date. DGP's MT book on the Solomani & Aslan repeats this date, but again no details.
My reason for the information is for a campaign (Terran Dawn) set around -400 in the Solomani Rim. I'm trying to get an idea of what those in the Solomani Rim during the Long Night would know about the Hivers. First contact was just before the Long Night struck in -1776, only 26 years later. If first contact was a relatively unnoticed incident (a free trader encountered Hivers, but the information was over-shadowed by the events of the coming Long Night), very little might be known about the Hivers. If it was a major event, much more information might be known in the Solomani Rim, but still little contact during the Long Night.
There is a reference in DGP's MT Solomani & Aslan that mentions the Hivers purchasing a tract of land in Australia. No date is given. It might be a stretch if I assumed Hivers set up this enclave before the Long Night. Perhaps they were there early on, but later expanded by purchasing land to set up a trade market for their imported technology once trade lines were opened?
An entry in my campaign guide so far:
I've gone through CT sources, Gurps sources, and MT sources referencing the Hivers. I don't have a TNE book that mentioned Hivers, but I'm assuming it wouldn't give many details about early Hiver-Human contact. There may be something indirect in a non-specifically Hiver source that I have missed.
The only thing I have come up with so far is a date. Solomani-Hiver first contact in -1802. This is from CT's Alien Module 6 on the Solomani in a timeline. No details just a date. DGP's MT book on the Solomani & Aslan repeats this date, but again no details.
My reason for the information is for a campaign (Terran Dawn) set around -400 in the Solomani Rim. I'm trying to get an idea of what those in the Solomani Rim during the Long Night would know about the Hivers. First contact was just before the Long Night struck in -1776, only 26 years later. If first contact was a relatively unnoticed incident (a free trader encountered Hivers, but the information was over-shadowed by the events of the coming Long Night), very little might be known about the Hivers. If it was a major event, much more information might be known in the Solomani Rim, but still little contact during the Long Night.
There is a reference in DGP's MT Solomani & Aslan that mentions the Hivers purchasing a tract of land in Australia. No date is given. It might be a stretch if I assumed Hivers set up this enclave before the Long Night. Perhaps they were there early on, but later expanded by purchasing land to set up a trade market for their imported technology once trade lines were opened?
An entry in my campaign guide so far:
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Hivers were contacted only 26 years before the Long Night officially began. Initially great attention was given to this contact with another interstellar race. But, this was quickly over-shadowed by the growing problems within the Rule of Man, and thus it did not get the follow-up attention it deserved before the Long Night fell. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Hivers are currently given little thought within the Rim and the typical citizen of the Old Earth Union would not recognize the race without first doing a media search. Little was known about the Hivers before communications ground to a halt during the Long Night. A person searching for more information might find that upon contact Hivers held sway over an interstellar federation and the Hivers had been engaged in a lengthy war with another interstellar race centuries before contact with the Rule of Man.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Hivers did succeed in setting up a very small nest-enclave on the east coast of Australia on Terra just as the Long Night set in. Descendants of these Hivers are still in place. It is unknown if the enclave had a long-term purpose in mind and certainly they have been cut-off from any communication with their distant homeland (evil grin). The Hivers are viewed by the locals as a beast-like race of low sentience due to their appearance and lack of extended communications with them.[/FONT]
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