What happened on Heguz?

[mpoles]

Heguz / Aramis: "Heguz is a low-population Imperial water world located in the Aramis Subsector of the Spinward Marches. Heguz is a dangerous mystery. Two separate floating colonies, representing 90,000 inhabitants in total have simply vanished without a trace: the first in 649, the second in 670. Despite extensive effort, no signs of either colony have ever been discovered."


Has anything ever been published that says (or even suggests) what happened to the two colonies?

 

[Carlobrand]

The wiki entry cites GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw as a source. Also cites Spinward Marches Campaign, but I don't see anything about that in there.The other two sources are noted as, "UWP only." Therefore it's something in the GURPS Imperium milieu. Perhaps someone familiar with GURPS can tell us if there's anything more on the subject in the GURPS products.

 

[Timerover51]

The following is the data on Heguz from Aramis-The Traveller Adventure by Mongoose Publishing.

Heguz is a dangerously mysterious world in the Scatters. Two colonies have been established on this planet and each has failed for unexplained reasons. The first had 20,000 citizens in 649 but when a supply ship arrived in 650, no trace of the colony remained. Within a few years the colony was re-established, only to disappear in the early 900s with nearly 70,000 inhabitants. Both were formed around large, floating bases of the type often established on water worlds. Large areas of the ocean floor have been searched but so far no trace of either colony has been found. An investigative team representing another group of prospective colonists, numbering about 500 and based in orbit, is currently studying the world in an attempt to solve its mystery.

This does give a much later date for the second disappearance.

The given UWP is E66A224–C.

The GDW edition of The Traveller Adventure has the same comment.

 

[Ran Targas]

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", what else could it possibly be?

 

[Timerover51]

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", what else could it possibly be?

I thought that Cthulhu was from outside of our Universe, not just from a distant planet.

The disappearances does get the imaginative brain cells working though. All water planet, or close to it, makes for lots of possibilities.

 

[sabredog]

CROATOAN

 

[Timerover51]

CROATOAN

Carved on a buoy that survived?

 

[Carlobrand]

Now see, I can't stop thinking, "Resistance is futile."

 

[sabredog]

Carved on a buoy that survived?

Exactly!