Originally posted by Employee 2-4601:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Maladominus:
This means that much of the Magyar is still un-detailed by any official source, and that allows me to use MY imagination to fill in the missing pieces. So already, I've written up about 4 to 5 pages worth of content about the various systems and worlds of the Magyar. Eventually, I'd love to finish something like a 15-page PDF for the 'sector catalog'. I'll be using the write-up format that was used in GURPS Rim of Fire.
Are you still working on this? I'd very much like to see the fruits of your labor in this direction, especially as Magyar got both the Solomani and the Imperials (though the Imperials control only a small portion of it to the Coreward), plus an Aslan influence (the Aslan border is outside of this sector, but very close to it).</font>[/QUOTE]Hi Employee 2-4601,
Yes, I have been working continuously on the Magyar sector, since it's a sector in current use in my campaign. And yes, I have made some very solid "progress". Thanks to Mickazoid having drawn up a Sector PDF for the Magyar, I finally got the sector map to MY satisfaction.
Regarding the Magyar, there are some things to consider:
#1) It's not a referee preserve, as the Magyar sector's system stats have been spelled out long ago, from Atlas of the Imperium.
#2) Magyar's canonical data is SCREWED UP AND CONFLICTING. GDW says one thing, and then Joe Fugate and the DGP boys say another thing, even tho they were given the license to "publish" official Traveller data. This predicament is both a curse and a blessing. It allows ME to pick and choose exactly what I want of this sector, based on a handful of (conflicting) published parameters.
For example, Magyar Subsector "D" actually has two names. Do you want to go with the GDW name? It's Gadarur subsector. Do you want to go with the DGP Traveller's Digest published named? It's Anise subsector.
Several planets are also given conflicting names. At least they did not screw up when it came to the name of the sector capital, Uebelhor. At least THAT's pretty much a solid thing.
My work on the Magyar has detailed a handful of interesting planets. Mostly, I PREFER to work on planets that have already been given some kind of canonical summary (usually GDW or DGP describe it in one or two sentences). And then I take it from there, and basically expand on the details.
Three examples that I have worked on and fleshed out the details in the Magyar sector: Uebelhor, Gadarur and Olsson.
Gadarur (Gadarur Subsector)
Gadarur is a loyal Imperial world and the subsector capital of the Gadarur subsector. It is an industrial border world of the Magyar sector. Most visitors are surprised to find that the planet of Gadarur is a bleak-looking vaccuum world. It presents a clay-red coloured landscape, similar to the planet Mars in the Sol system.
The planet Gadarur was settled over 3 millenia ago, when the Vilani Imperium possessed early "domed cities" technology. The implementation of domed arcologies on Gadarur is one of the First Imperium's shining example of mankind overcoming the difficulties of cold vaccuum. Gadarur boasts an immense population of over 9 billion sentients (mostly humans).... all of them living within a few dozen domed cities and the airlocked subterranean suburbs beneath them.
Gadarur is one of the few planet in the Magyar sector that has retained its original Vilani identity. It was the frontier capital of this sector during the time of the Vilani Grand Empire of Stars. There is still a significant Vilani cultural population present on Gadarur. The law level is moderately intrusive, and the government has always been ultra-conservative.
Gadarur is a member-world of the Third Imperium.
UPP A5019B7-E
Uebelhor (Valhalla Subsector)
Uebelhor is the capital of the Magyar sector. Legend has it that in the early years of the Rule of Man, the Terran explorer Laszlo von Uebelhor (a Hungarian-born financier of German descent) led a colonial expedition into the sector spinward of the Solomani Rim. The original settlers that accompanied him were of German and Central European ancestry.
The efforts of this tireless explorer eventually resulted in over a dozen permanent Terran settlements being established in the Magyar sector during his lifetime. On his final voyage, von Uebelhor had fallen ill with a fatal disease then unknown to Terran medicine, most likely contracted from one of the numerous alien worlds during his travels. The source of this infection, called Uebelhor's Malaise, was never found. Today, many of the surviving colonies are descended from the original German, Hungarian, Slavonic, Baltic, Ukrainian and Russian settlers that took part in von Uebelhor's expeditions. Solomani history books include him in the list of the most important figures of the Terran Diaspora.
The planet of Uebelhor itself is a bountiful world rich in precious metals and other resources. It has an atmosphere comparable to Earth's, and a slightly lower-than-normal gravity. The planet is currently a balkanized world consisting of several nationalistic enclaves, but a loose federation binds them together so as to avoid military conflict.
The planet is a member of the Solomani Confederation. A Solomani Confederation Naval Base is present in the system.
UPP A566877-C
Olsson (Eerie Subsector)
Olsson is yet another example of a Solomani ethnic world. When the Long Night lifted, ethnic Scandinavians from the Old Earth Union renewed their expeditions into the Magyar sector to settle worlds like Olsson.
Olsson is a fairly inviting world. The climate is cooler than average, but the atmosphere is within Human standards. The planet itself is not very large, yet much of the surface is covered in either water or the polar icecaps. Several large islands are scattered across the surface of the planet, although none are continental in size. The majority of the population resides in small coastal cities.
Olsson is notable for its abundance of marine and amphibious life. The Scandinavian nations of Terra have long banned commercial whaling and similar hunting. Having settled on Olsson, their descendants found a renewed interest in whaling and unrestricted commercial fishing. Recently, the larger city-states on Olsson have escalated a bitter trade war, centered on disputed fishing territories. The County of Göteborg and its ally the Trondheim Free State have threatened the fishing fleets of the larger County of Frederiksborg. The Solomani Confederation has so far refrained from intervening, and considers the situation to be a local matter. Nevertheless, the County of Fredericksborg feels that it has been unfairly surrounded by enemies, and that SolSec is aiding its rivals. If this can be proven, the government of Fredericksborg has hinted on the threat of secession from the Solomani Confederation.
The planet is a member of the Solomani Confederation.
UPP D478577-A
Regarding Aslan presence. Officially, there are no "Aslan-owned" worlds in the Magyar. Realistically, there MUST be at least a few worlds where the Aslans have squaterred. It just makes sense. How else would the Aslan envoys, colonists, merchants, and diplomats travel to the Solomani Rim sector? The Solomani Rim's Imperial side has an Aslan minority in the several BILLIONS! And the only way the Aslans can reach the Solomani Rim is by going across the Magyar sector. I have made it so that at least 3 worlds in the Magyar have a small Aslan colony/outposts. These are small outposts, and are merely used by Aslan as stepping stones between their home sector of Dark Nebula, and the Imperial parts of the Solomani Rim (which is host to BILLIONS of Aslans with Imperial citizenship).
The nationalistic Solomani do NOT like the presence of these Aslan squatters at all. On the other hand, the Solomani Confederation government is trying hard to improve diplomatic relations with the Aslan Heirate, since it has been stated that profitable trade between the Confederation and the Heirate is in the best interests of both. As a result, the Confederation government does its best to leave these small Aslan outposts alone.
Background note: the Sollies and the Aslans have a bloody history of savagely killing each other, a reference to Solomani-Aslan border wars from the GDW game "Dark Nebula".
