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"Wilderness" UWP Gen

What I did once was

step 1) physical stats

step 2) roll for sentient species based on phys stats - higher chance with good world stats

step 3) roll 0-9 for each sentient species TL - roll till at least one has a TL9

step 4) give the front runner(s) a number of colonization points which are spent to add population to worlds with a minimum of 3 population needed to allow a system to act as a bridge to a better one.

(e.g. say 12 pts, space ready species spends 5 pts to get pop 5 on nearest good planet, 3 to build base on nearby less good system and 4 on good planet beyond the base)

step 5) increase all sentients TLs by 1 and then any space species get another 12 pts

step 6) repeat until two space capable species are adjacent

Also if a sole colonizer contacts a less advanced species roll to see their action:
1) exterminate
2) enslave
3)colonize
4)stand off and sabotage
5)stand off
6)stand off and help
 
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Thank you. Fortunately I can open the file. Now to sort out the GURPS from the non-GURPS ones. Looks like quite a few in the Spinward Marches to go through.

Yeah, the Marches are the second most diverse sector on the list, IIRC, with only Dagudashaag holding more.

The non-GURPS minor races for the Marches include the Llellewyloly, Crawni, Darrians, Ebokin, Denuli/Shriekers, and Chirpers from older material, and the Amindii more recently. Not sure if the Nexxies, a recently engineered branch of Humaniti, are contributing to the count.

The odd distribution across the Marches (not taking the GURPS additions into account) suggests that the rubble left behind by the Final War may have been home to a few more who are no longer with us.
 
Still looking for what the 8 minor alien races in the Spinward Marches are. Are those on Craw amoung them or not?

I know of 4 native, one of unknown homeworld, and two minor human.

Minor non-humans
Eiboken (Yebab) - TTA
Lewelloly (Junidy) - TTA
Amindii (Regina) - Most of the canon is T5
Chirpers (Eskaloyt, originally, several worlds) - note: Eskaloyt was in the marches.
Shriekers (567-908) - multiple sources
Larianz (Byret) - one-line canon reference in SMC

Canon Minor Humans
Daryan/Darrian (Darrian)


Dubious canonicity minor races
Meway (Mewey) - May be non canon - source is GT:BTC.
Obeyery (Stave) - May be non canon - source is GT:BTC
Otarri (Faldor) - May be non-canon - source is GT:BTC
Saurian (Sarurus) - May be non-canon - Source is GT:BTC
Tashaki (Retinae) - May be non-canon - Source is GT:BTC
Tethmari (Gyomar) - May be non-canon - Source is GT:BTC
Ursty (Yurst) - May be non-canon - Source is GT:BTC
Viji (Zeta 2) - May be non-canon - Source is GT:BTC

Non-canon published minors
Efatian (Efate)
Raccoonid (Dentus)

Note: The following have been stated in canon to have presences in the Marches:
Dolphins (Terra) - uplifts. Possibly also Orcas
Jgd-il-Jigd (Jigd) - STL only sophonts. Inhabit several gas giants.
Virushi
Newts/Bwaps
Jonkeereen

A number of protosentients also exist in the marches, in various levels of canonicity.
 
Minor non-humans
1. Eiboken (Yebab) - TTA
2. Lewelloly (Junidy) - TTA
3. Amindii (Regina) - Most of the canon is T5
4. Chirpers (Eskaloyt, originally, several worlds) - note: Eskaloyt was in the marches.
5. Shriekers (567-908) - multiple sources
6. Larianz (Byret) - one-line canon reference in SMC

7. JTAS has a one-line mention of sophonts on Tionale.
8. JTAS tells us a bit about the sophonts on Craw.
 
I know of 4 native, one of unknown homeworld, and two minor human.

Minor non-humans
Eiboken (Yebab) - TTA
Lewelloly (Junidy) - TTA
Amindii (Regina) - Most of the canon is T5
Chirpers (Eskaloyt, originally, several worlds) - note: Eskaloyt was in the marches.
Shriekers (567-908) - multiple sources
Larianz (Byret) - one-line canon reference in SMC

Canon Minor Humans
Daryan/Darrian (Darrian)

Another dumb question. What does "SMC" stand for?
 
Anyone have divergent rules when determining a sector of "wilderness" space?

My current iterations have two kinds of wild space. For my purposes I define Wilderness as space that was once part of empire but has decayed. I then define Uncharted Space as space where it is not clear whether or not there ever was any sort of interstellar empire.

I am still developing what "Uncharted" really means for UWP generation.

Both draft algorithms are implemented here:

http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/survey/t5-prog/t5sysgen.pl

Select "Wilderness" or "Uncharted" for the targets under development. The outputs can be plugged directly into Joshua Bell's poster maker (http://travellermap.com/make/poster).


Wilderness removes populations and bases from worlds where the Pop digit < 7 and the Government code is not a 6 (colony world). TL is retained if world Importance is greater than 0, making it a Dieback world.

The Wilderness method hadn't changed for a year or more, until yesterday when it was adjusted a bit. It may change again.


Uncharted is very much a work in progress. It is currently similar to the Wilderness rule, but removes populations of worlds with a Pop digit < 10, and doesn't yet produce Dieback worlds. For worlds with a Pop digit of 10+, the population is reduced, and Gov, Law, and TL are re-rolled.

The Uncharted rules are changing daily at this point. I will add in a conversion from starport to spaceport, remove populations from extreme worlds, and so on.
 
Sure enough, the process for creating Uncharted space has shifted underneath me. It seems a bit friendlier than how I had devised it. I'll have to make changes to my code soon.

More later.
 
I still would like to know what "SMC" stands for though.

Classic Traveller Module #3: The Spinward Marches Campaign.

A sourcebook covering the 5th Frontier War. Also, the alternate source for the Supplement 4 careers.
 
Classic Traveller Module #3: The Spinward Marches Campaign.

A sourcebook covering the 5th Frontier War. Also, the alternate source for the Supplement 4 careers.

Thank you, Aramis. I just passed up an opportunity to get that as part of the combined hardcopy set. Is a one line mention in a canonical source like that sufficient to establish an intelligent Alien race existence?

Edit Note: Is "NIL" the abbreviation for "Native Intelligent Life"? If so, you might want to add it to the Abbreviations list.
 
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Thank you, Aramis. I just passed up an opportunity to get that as part of the combined hardcopy set. Is a one line mention in a canonical source like that sufficient to establish an intelligent Alien race existence?

Edit Note: Is "NIL" the abbreviation for "Native Intelligent Life"? If so, you might want to add it to the Abbreviations list.

Yes, NIL is the abbreviation for Native Intelligent Lifeforms. It's a T5-ism.

A 1-liner in a canon source is sufficient. A write-up with rules in a non-canon one isn't even close...
And then there's BTC. Badly flawed in many ways, but a valiant effort... decanonization of the worlds is actually the easiest thing to do with it. But that also means decanonization of the NIL homeworlds defined within...
 
Yes, NIL is the abbreviation for Native Intelligent Lifeforms. It's a T5-ism.

A 1-liner in a canon source is sufficient. A write-up with rules in a non-canon one isn't even close...
And then there's BTC. Badly flawed in many ways, but a valiant effort... decanonization of the worlds is actually the easiest thing to do with it. But that also means decanonization of the NIL homeworlds defined within...

As I do not do GURPS, I do not have Behind the Claw, but I was curious about how much it takes to confirm a NIL. I will have to keep that in mind. I have noticed that Marc in the opening pages of the Supplement Collection has what appears to be a pretty good list of canon sources.
 
And then there's BTC. Badly flawed in many ways, but a valiant effort... decanonization of the worlds is actually the easiest thing to do with it. But that also means decanonization of the NIL homeworlds defined within...

I am sure it has been detailed and/or discussed elsewhere, but what are the particular canonical-issues that are problematic in BtC (other than pre-5FW Fleet Deployments and post-1116 Alt-timeline chronology)?
 
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