Hub Worlds

A thread of 2 messages, 11 April 1994 to 12 April 1994, in the order they were sent.

#7245 Hub Worlds

Anthony "K." Baggaley · 11 April 1994

 Re- The economic strength of the Hubworlds in TNE

 I see someone else has noticed the rather extreme population and naval
capability of the Hub Worlds Pocket Empire.  As detailed in TNE they rather
belittle the 'what will happen to the RCES' discussion because they could
roll right over the RCES like the RCES roll over chickens.
 Expect the Hub Worlds to be decimated by virus/civil war/teddy bears  just
as soon as the majority of Traveller players start to ask GDW what they are
playing at.
 I am honoured enough to play with some of the people who are listed on the
Hub Worlds development team, so I suppose I could ask them what the heck they
thought they were doing putting 30 Billion people on a Mars-type planet, and
if they actually intended it to be many times more powerful than the RC.
 I really wish they say  " to see if GDW noticed...."

                                    May Your Fusion Gun never run out of ammo
                                    Anthony K

#7262 Re: Hub Worlds

Steven M Bonneville · 12 April 1994 · reply to #7245

Anthony "K." Baggaley [email removed] writes:

> Expect the Hub Worlds to be decimated by virus/civil war/teddy bears  just
>as soon as the majority of Traveller players start to ask GDW what they are
>playing at.

Actually, that's why the HubWorlds needs all those resources, as I see it.
Kaggushus is sitting in a very dangerous spot.  Massilia was the most
technologically advanced sector of the Imperium -- some twenty-odd
tech 16 worlds were in the sector (one of which *was* Kaggushus).  That
means there could be a lot of dangerous Virus-infected high tech hardware
flying around the area.  On the other side, the Hub is very close to the
edge of the Black Curtain, and nobody in the Hub has any idea what might
be lurking in there, eating exploratory ships.  They might need to find
out one of these days.

Also, note that the coreward neighbor to the HubWorld's Ershur subsector
is Core sector's Cadion subsector.  There are at least two interesting
things to check out there.  Just over the border is Reference/Cadion
(Core 0140).  The astrographic center of the Imperial navigation system,
and former data repository of the IISS Imperial Grand Survey.  If even
partially intact, it could be a treasure trove of information for
rebuilding or raiding dead and not-so-dead worlds.  Of course, it's
probably a death trap, considering that life support on the airless rock
was computer controlled and that there are tens of thousands of different
data storage computers networked under that rock, as well as Imperial
Naval and Scout bases sited in the system.  The second target in the
subsector would be Lucan's research station where Virus was actually
developed.  It might be inside the Black Curtain, but there could
still be useful information that wasn't destroyed by the staff, the
Virus, or Dulinor's raiders.

In fact, it's interesting that the Hub survived the initial Virus
attack that close to the release point....

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