Fourth Frontier War

[far-trader]

Originally posted by Bill Cameron:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />These are the only two Frontier Wars which have a direct gernerational connection.

Uhh... First and Second also? 589 to 604 and 615 to 620?

What that means is up to the referee, but I think it is significant.

It is, it most definitely is. The 4th and 5th Wars should be part of the 'background' for any Classic Era player-character; their parents fought in the first and they fought in the second.
</font>[/QUOTE]And possibly a raw recruit (Term 1) of the 4th served as a veteran (Term 7) in the 5th as well.

 

[Jeff M. Hopper]

Originally posted by Bill Cameron:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />These are the only two Frontier Wars which have a direct generational connection.

Uhh... First and Second also? 589 to 604 and 615 to 620?
</font>[/QUOTE]Good point, but with the Civil War happening between 604 and 622, I'd always considered there to be other factors affecting that generation. The 4th FW and 5th FW have no major listed historical events.

Although now that you've got me thinking about it...

 

[rancke]

Originally posted by Bill Cameron:
Still, I'll follow Hans Rancke-Madsen's advice concerning supposedly 'troublesome' canon; Try to make it work and don't chuck it out unless it has been explicitly overwritten.

That's what I advice? I would have thought that my advice was "Try to make it work first, but if you can't, chuck it!"

Following those guidelines, IMTU A:4 is more canonical than not.

As Bill knows (because he has given me a lot of feed-back on a project I'm working on called Leviathan:400 ), I think a lot of the material in Leviathan would fit much better back in the Year 400, before the Outrim Void had been criss-crossed by scouts for 700 years, merchants for 600, and Imperial Navy patrols for 500. So the part I can't really make myself believe (like Egyrn being largely unknown after the neighboring subsector of Glisten has been settled for over 700 years) are definitely 'apochryphal' as far as I'm concerned, but everything that can work (like Bilstein Yards, BT, and MF) are as canonical as anything.


Hans

 

[atpollard]

Originally posted by Bill Cameron:
Still, I'll follow Hans Rancke-Madsen's advice concerning supposedly 'troublesome' canon; Try to make it work and don't chuck it out unless it has been explicitly overwritten.

Originally posted by rancke:
I would have thought that my advice was "Try to make it work first, but if you can't, chuck it!"

That must be where the "-Madsen" part comes in.

 

[Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen]

LoL!! It took me a second, but I get it!!