dmccoy1693
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Would details on the Solomani Rim interest you?
OTU Only: Interest in the Solomani Rim?
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Would details on the Solomani Rim interest you?
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Depends.
Being a Vargr aficionado and Extents/Enclaves specialist, I could see taking a diplomatic Vargr Emissary group to Terra, perhaps to confirm the Solomani Hypothesis, meet Solomani and have a look at Terran wolves. Some sources say that Vargr are rarely found as far rimward as the Solomani Confederation. If so, then it erodes the Man First party line if no aliens visit Terra. Humaniti and Vargr have equal stake in confirming what the Ancients did to them in spreading them out over Charted Space. A diplomatic mission to confirm the Vargr were transplanted and uplifted somehow might be of value to sophontologists, archaeologists and perhaps muzzle the Church of the Chosen Ones for a few decades.
I would not mind seeing a faceplate with:
Extents
Enclaves
or simply Vargr
Mayhap that might spur me to continue finding license outlets to publish my OTU / Pakkrat's TU content.
From the writers desk, this is the Pakkrat.
Depends.
Being a Vargr aficionado and Extents/Enclaves specialist, I could see taking a diplomatic Vargr Emissary group to Terra, perhaps to confirm the Solomani Hypothesis, meet Solomani and have a look at Terran wolves. Some sources say that Vargr are rarely found as far rimward as the Solomani Confederation. If so, then it erodes the Man First party line if no aliens visit Terra. Humaniti and Vargr have equal stake in confirming what the Ancients did to them in spreading them out over Charted Space. A diplomatic mission to confirm the Vargr were transplanted and uplifted somehow might be of value to sophontologists, archaeologists and perhaps muzzle the Church of the Chosen Ones for a few decades.
I would not mind seeing a faceplate with:
Extents
Enclaves
or simply Vargr
Mayhap that might spur me to continue finding license outlets to publish my OTU / Pakkrat's TU content.
From the writers desk, this is the Pakkrat.
mike wightman
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I've always assumed that Imperialised Vargr and Aslan, Vegans and of course Newts can be found throughout the Imperium.
mike wightman
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As to interest in the Solomani Rim - I am interested if there is something new, perhaps exploring the sectors that we don't have 40 years of info about.
I have very little need for a write up of every planet in the Solomani Rim sector since it is unlikely to be compatible with how I developed the Solomani Rim after I got the original supplement.
I would find a use for new organisations, shipping lines, companies, merc units, rules for uplifting/uplifted Terran animals, transhumanism via bioengineering or cybernetic augmentation, mega-engineering projects and of course some sort of nod to there having been no long night in the Terran sphere of influence. Speaking of which more info on Terran Confederation polities, how the nation states of twenty first century Earth not only joined to fight the Imperium but also post war launched their own cultural colonies.
I have very little need for a write up of every planet in the Solomani Rim sector since it is unlikely to be compatible with how I developed the Solomani Rim after I got the original supplement.
I would find a use for new organisations, shipping lines, companies, merc units, rules for uplifting/uplifted Terran animals, transhumanism via bioengineering or cybernetic augmentation, mega-engineering projects and of course some sort of nod to there having been no long night in the Terran sphere of influence. Speaking of which more info on Terran Confederation polities, how the nation states of twenty first century Earth not only joined to fight the Imperium but also post war launched their own cultural colonies.
Depends...
My relationship with 3i setting is like a readers relationship to a good setting in a series of novels by an author I trust. I enjoy the stories set there. I will read the next story and the next one too. I will reread the older stories in the series from time to time too.
But.
When I sit down to create my own stories the setting is my own. A setting we are creating together since I treat role playing as collaborative storytelling. Aspects of everything I have read will influence what I will create.
So.
New material about the Solomani Rim could provide new ideas to enrich our future sessions.
My relationship with 3i setting is like a readers relationship to a good setting in a series of novels by an author I trust. I enjoy the stories set there. I will read the next story and the next one too. I will reread the older stories in the series from time to time too.
But.
When I sit down to create my own stories the setting is my own. A setting we are creating together since I treat role playing as collaborative storytelling. Aspects of everything I have read will influence what I will create.
So.
New material about the Solomani Rim could provide new ideas to enrich our future sessions.
BackworldTraveller
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If it was giving more of the same, no. If it covered how the various different Terran cultures moved uniquely to space - yes. Multiple languages, cultures, etc that aren't all western would be interesting. Geneered creatures. Done well it would be worth reading.
There are different questions, mysteries and approaches to adventures in the Solomani Rim or Alpha Crucis sectors (Both have been detailed in 1e Third Imperium books):
- With 3x the population and 5x the economy and generally higher TL than the Spinward Marches according to the wiki, can you get away with anything ... shady?
- With all that large scale trade going on how does a speculative trader make a living?
- The Vegans are detailed again so whats with their love/hate with the Solomani?
- Alpha Crucis has some interesting "aliens" like the Selenites. Might there be other engineered humans about?
- Dolphins!
- Spies!
- Project Phoenix ! (It's back, it's real, deal!)
dmccoy1693
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- Terra system is under Imperial lock down plus everything you mentioned and they still have terrorist activity. so yes, shady still happens.
- Major distributors are going to do the equivalent of a New York to LA run, passing through St Louis when they need to cross the Mississippi. They're not going to stop in Cheyenne, WY unless they are making one of their specific trips there, which might be once a month, tops. If you have to get something there in one week's time, you have to call a freelance crew.
- Do you always love your neighbors, especially when they post a political yard sign that you disagree with? I imagine the Vegans aren't happy with the space nazis, even if they do trade with them.
- The real nazis did experiments on on people. I can only assume that the Solomani party space nazis made several races if superior humans that got freed over the past century plus timeframe.
- Yes.
- Definitely.
- How could we not?
dmccoy1693
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dmccoy1693
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The Solomani Rim book mentions that Aslans are present but rare. Considering Vargr's propensity for focusing on pack, I can only assume that a pack long ago went looking for their "original" home and has since settled in one of the nearby systems like Prometheus after having confirmed that long ago. Now they are normal Imperial citizen Vargr living in a different section of space.
Condottiere
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Along the border, there are plenty of opportunities for the bold, also risks with increased surveillance, since I'm pretty sure lots of stuff gets smuggled back and forth.
The latest i(perium)Phones might be quite popular.
The latest i(perium)Phones might be quite popular.
mike wightman
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Please, no more space Nazis. 
Go back to the original source material - the CT Alien Races module - and read it again remembering that you are reading Imperial propaganda, it is written from a Third Imperium perspective.
The Solomani Confederation is not a fascist state, and the SolSec are not the Stazi (see what I did there?). The individual polities within the Confederation have considerable economic and cultural power, and yet the Imperial (and unreliable narrator) point of view is always to take the Confederation as a whole and thus miss the great opportunities for playing sides off against each other.
I wonder how the Third Imperium would fare if someone wrote a book about their history, politics and culture from the point of view of a rival polity?
Go back to the original source material - the CT Alien Races module - and read it again remembering that you are reading Imperial propaganda, it is written from a Third Imperium perspective.
The Solomani Confederation is not a fascist state, and the SolSec are not the Stazi (see what I did there?). The individual polities within the Confederation have considerable economic and cultural power, and yet the Imperial (and unreliable narrator) point of view is always to take the Confederation as a whole and thus miss the great opportunities for playing sides off against each other.
I wonder how the Third Imperium would fare if someone wrote a book about their history, politics and culture from the point of view of a rival polity?
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BackworldTraveller
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Paranoid, passive-aggressive, incompetent, disfunctional, selfish, anti-social...Move to Zhodane - the sane choice!
mike wightman
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You missed out corrupt, criminal, authoritarian and anti-democratic 
I wonder if you could make a functional liberal representative democracy much larger than a sub-sector in size?
I wonder if you could make a functional liberal representative democracy much larger than a sub-sector in size?
dmccoy1693
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I guess I didn't get that part. I'll reread it from that perspective.
Dale, as far as using CT, that cannot be done. Not much choice in the matter there. The TAS license is specific:
Now as far as HOW to present or play them the Mongoose way (hmm), the space nazi bit is only if you write them as 2D villians. Mongoose claims to have wrote them to be nuanced. You will find that in pages 177-178 of Mongoose's Alien Module 5: Solomani. In the sections Roleplaying Solomani and Presenting the Solomani.
Generally:
So in the cases of direct contradiction either substantively or thematically, CT loses.
Now as far as HOW to present or play them the Mongoose way (hmm), the space nazi bit is only if you write them as 2D villians. Mongoose claims to have wrote them to be nuanced. You will find that in pages 177-178 of Mongoose's Alien Module 5: Solomani. In the sections Roleplaying Solomani and Presenting the Solomani.
Generally:
As heroes:
As villians:
It's still accusing them of being racists, a monoparty state, and essentially riffing 80's propaganda about the USSR.
Condottiere
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At the moment, they're more like the People's Republic of China, with the provincial authorities having lots of authority, as long as they don't screw up or do things that reflect badly on or question the central authority and/or Party.
mike wightman
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Except that it is the individual polities within the confederation that have the power, they control the purse strings, and some of them are very powerful economically, culturally and politically.
It is actually more like the EU, with individual sovereign states devolving some authority to the Confederation.
It is actually more like the EU, with individual sovereign states devolving some authority to the Confederation.
Condottiere
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I don't see Brussels sending the EuroCorps to Athens to collect on overdue debt payments, nor London, to end the secessionist movement.
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