Personally, I love it as the K'kree come into their own to become My Little Ponies of Death.
FOR THE HERD!
No UWP in 1248 either for, but the borders of the Dominate, along with the Empress Wave cutting into Ley Sector is found Here:But there's no data for Lure in either era.
Three of the four 1248 books still work reasonably well. The RC/Lucan War occurs before the Wave reached Vland (and Kirur, coincidentally) and much of the Dominate War is in the next row of sectors to rimward, which the Wave doesn't reach until 1240 or so. Events in Vland, Lishun, Antares, Empty Quarter, and Star's End would need to be re-examined, including the participation of the Vland and Spinward fleets in the Dominate War. The timbre of a Keepers of the Flame campaign would be a little different, as the Wave is bearing down on the coreward edge. The Freedom League is still a century or more in front of the Wave, so no real changed are needed there.
If you're the biggest cheerleader for 1248, then I'm certainly on the line somewhere! The Spinward States absolutely rock as a familiar yet new-ish Traveller setting that begs to be tinkered with. My first post in this thread about the wormhole is something I did in my 1248 game to introduce the encroaching threat of The Lords of Thunder to the States.The second TNE CD-ROM. The first covers the TNE Era by GDW years 1202-1210 . The second CD-ROM has books with IY 1248 from ComStar/Avenger Enterprises. The overall history of Charted Space, about 80 pages of history IY 1129-1248 is in Traveller 1248 Book1: Out of Darkness. The other three main books provides greater detalls on the Spinward States (former Regency), the new 4th Imperium (yes, no joking) in Gushemege Sector, and the Freedom League.(former Reformation Coalition) and parts Rimward.
Even though I may be this era's biggest cheerleader, in fairness a warning: Due to changes in the narrative found in Marc Miller's novel Agent of the Imperium and the Mongoose 1st Edition Zhodani book, the characteristics of the Empress Wave were changed. It was made faster and deadlier, to the point that canonicity of 1248 and even TNE itself is questioned. Some wish to chuck it all, some like me are willing to keep the things that could still happen in the relative past like the 1150s when the Gods of Thunder make nice with Virus. Since this is the IMTU forum, go for it! Or not. YMMV.
Personally, I love it as the K'kree come into their own to become My Little Ponies of Death.
FOR THE HERD!
Lure was totally blank, save for a mostly lost dot map by the old HIWG Quadrant Editor, and the old redline map of polities. I generated from scratch, saving only the old HIWG subsector names as I found the dot map too late. There is no 1248 data because the work done on the sector prior to my taking it up consisted of the unsupported dotmap and eight subsector names. That's IT.
Uh ... wouldn't the Empress Wave have used the wormhole to get to Gateway faster than it otherwise should have?
I’ve noticed the same thing in looking at the Gateway Quadrant – there’s a few planets with Billions of population that should be a pocket empire in their own right. They should be able to field 200k dT battleships and patrol whatever space they want within 4-6 parsecs, keeping it safe for their own purposes. ie. Sheridan: Glimmerdrift (324) TL C, 60 BN.
I would think that the majority of worlds in Lure would be generated under CT world generation since they are not K’kree worlds in 990, but will become K'Kree worlds from 990 to 1105 and beyond. I played with population growth between 990 and 1105 and figured out that at 2% growth, world population would double in ~ 36 years (investing rule of 72). I don’t believe population would grow that fast, on MOST worlds. Who wants to or can afford to raise a child on a Hostile Habitat World? Just musing, did anyone write about K’Kree fertility? How many settlers do they ship in?
Thank you. How do I go about finding said mailing list?
Actually, no.
The Lords of Thunder are still converting many of their conquests by 1105, and the Renkard Union worlds, for example, are still described as under occupation in MTJ#4. Once I have all of their worlds worked out, I'll update their wiki page, which still has a lot of speculative placeholder garp in it. Otherwise, yes, only the two subsectors that are part of the Two Thousand Worlds have been K'kree for very long. The border of the Thunder worlds in 990 shows their growth pattern. While they do surreptitiously get help from certain elements within the TTW, they are still constrained by K'kree logistics, and also want to avoid most other TTW client states, so they avoid the coreward part of the sector. After Virus sweeps through and they become the Dominate, I think they will expand backwards into the Two Thousand Worlds to get more bodies and materials already suited to them, before surging toward the Imperium. Then along comes the Wave to wreck their backfield *again*. IMO, the K'kree never fully recover from the stacked abuses.
Actually, no.
To be fair ... no one really does.
True, but it is useful to establish that the race that puts most of its people on worlds that don't need high tech to survive was still rendered blind by Virus, and scrambled like most others by the Wave. The race that, much like the Zhodani, have been unified during their entire spacefaring history was fractured to the individual world level. The race that includes only a small minority of serious thinkers surrounded by idiots had its social order upended twice within a lifespan.To be fair ... no one really does.
The herd always had an idea of correct ecological balance, or at least learned the lesson the hard way. It becomes difficult to maintain a correct balance when the life forms on a world have evolved in a predatory environment. Tribbles, for example.
