Looking around there seem to be three main sources of information on the Sword Worlders; the original JTAS article and the GT and MgT sourcebooks. (I'm purposely not including library data references or things like the Spinward Marches Campaign or Beltstrike where there is "merely" background information). Am I missing another source? And, without triggering a lot of discord, what are the differences between the two sourcebooks in terms of content? Thanks!
Sword Worlders
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I'm the co-writer of the GT book on the Sword Worlds. It describes the Sword Worlds in the GTU in 1120, but can be used as a sourcebook for any time in the OTU prior to to around 1115. It contains quite a bit of historical information. A lot of the text was copied into the MgT book (which pleased me a lot; it's nice to have one's work perpetuated instead of overwritten). Unfortunately there was a mixup with the draft and the MgT writer had forgotten to backdate the information from 1120 to 1105, so there's quite a bit of a muddle with the book, such as mentions of the Border Worlds (which had not been established in 1105) and various historical events.
The MgT book extracted some of the material from GT:Sword Worlds (and added a lot of its own), but nowhere near all of it, so there is definitely OTU-relevant material in GT:SW that isn't available elsewhere.
Also, there are some articles on JTS Online that might interest you. They're not canon, but they are canon-compatible and fit with the canonical material.
EDIT: Rereading the original post I notice that the GT book is mentioned as one source of information. I missed that originally, so I wrote my reply as if it hadn't been. Sorry about that.
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If I may, why do you say that?
Also (I do not know if matters for your purposes), but the Army/Navy Ranks tables in CharGen are mangled as well. Note the Enlisted/NCO Rank Lists compared to the corresponding (Commissioned) Officer Rank Lists. It may not be immediately apparent to someone who does not speak a Germanic language, but to those who do and are somewhat familiar with the general form of rank names in said languages, it is immediately apparent. It looks like in some cases the Ranks were read into the tables from a spreadsheet document, but were accidentally read into rows instead of columns. Hence, you have Officer and Enlisted/NCO ranks "split" and muddled between the two relevant tables.
See MgT Sword Worlds:
p.7 - Sword Worlder Army Ranking
p.9 - Sword Worlder Navy Ranking
Rough Translations:
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Timerover51
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Not a bad review. My problem is that having read H. Beam Piper's Space Viking shortly after it came out, and still re-reading it, that set my concept of what a grouping called the Sword Worlds should be like.
But that would be plagiarizing Piper's Sword Worlds instead of merely paying homage to them by making the Traveller Sword Worlds a bunch of worlds named after swords just like Piper's but not otherwise the same.
Hans
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