Enope (Spinward Marches 2205)
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Somewhere around eight centuries. The settlement maps in the "History of the Spinward Marches" shows that Enope is settled between 300 and 400 and is part of the Imperium by 400 (I'd interpret that to mean that Enope is a mining colony of an Imperial member world, not a member world in its own right).
There is a certain amount of ambiguity in that several worlds that are known to have indiginous populations are not marked as settled on the settlement maps.
Algine was settled in two waves. Once by Vilani fleeing the Rule of Man some time between -2300 and -1700 (This is an assumption, but one that fits with what else we know). They apparently lost their technology. If they set up a mining colony on Enope (and why should they do so when they had a whole world with breathable atmosphere available?) it had died out by -1513 (when the Itzin Fleet reached the Marches). Second time by a Solomani generation ship around -1000. Since the Solomani likewise lost their technology, I assume that they didn't set up any out-system mining colonies.
Before they become too great a threat to an interstellar state with, what is it, 5000 systems? The Zhodani had better hurry!
It took the Zhodani five centuries to react to the threat of the Imperium.
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mike wightman
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So what if the Algine natives, instead of being Vilani refugees, are another Ancient transplanted race?
The Spinward Marches is home to Grandfather, Shionthy was important enough to be reduced to rubble, so why not have human servants of the Ancients survive in Algine?
Are Darrian, Algine and Vanajen worlds that the Ancients left humans on?
The Spinward Marches is home to Grandfather, Shionthy was important enough to be reduced to rubble, so why not have human servants of the Ancients survive in Algine?
Are Darrian, Algine and Vanajen worlds that the Ancients left humans on?
Because there's a limited number of 'slots' available for Minor Human Races (canon states that there are 49 human races (including the three major ones) known to the Imperium[*] and somewhere between 20 and 30 of those have already shown up in canon (Traveller authors having a penchant for introducing new Minor Human Races at the drop of a hat (not that I bleme them; Minor Human Races are fun)), and there's no need to use one up to explain the presence of humans on Algine.
[*] There's an MHR called the Loeskalth, thought to be long gone, that was found to have survived somewhere in the Far Frontiers sector around 1105 or or 1106 or thereabouts. Presumably that isn't included in the number.
According to Marc Miller the Shionthy system was the location of Eskaloyt, the lost home of the Droyne (and it's still there, shifted into a pocket universe). That was in a post on the TML, so strictly speaking it isn't canon, but I consider it to be anyway.
Darrian is, Vanejen definitely isn't. Algine could be, but IMO isn't.
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daryen
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Darrian is, Vanejen definitely isn't. Algine could be, but IMO isn't.</font>[/QUOTE]I completely agree with that.
It is also probably part of the reason the Itzin fleet picked Darrian. The Darrians were a MHR that was developing normally on their own. The other two were fallen Vilani colonies, each with significant cultural issues the Solomani probably didn't want to deal with.
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