Re: Efate

> From: [email removed] (Cynthia Higginbotham)
> Subject: (3360) Efate System

>     Efate is a Libertarian's dream and everyone else's nightmare.  The
> dominant society on Efate was founded by Solomani, possibly of Terran
> French or colonial French ancestry, judging from the French names in
> common use, but after a thousand years of folklore and revisionist
> history, who can tell?

  I believe that Efate is capitol of Tahiti or one of the other archipelago
states in the pacific. I'm resonably certain that it was a French colony once,
since I looked it up for usable names when I did my version of Efate, and
most of them were French (BTW, the result looked quite similar to yours:
Libertaria with cyberpunk although I had more internal differences between the
walled corporate blocks and the slums on unused land. Also, all spaceports
were either corporate, imperial (IN & IISS), or pay-to-pay. There were ofcourse
the possibility of setting down for free in a vacant lot in the slums, if
one felt very adventureous:)

> p.s. I have a map of Efate, too, but it's on paper. Has the TML come up
> with some standard for uploading/representing world maps & deck plans?

  There is no official standard I think, but most people (Xfinger:) have access
to either Gif or postscript. I'd think that postscript is more usable for maps
since it is easily printable.

- -bertil-
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"What's wrong with the slums of Efate? I was born there you know!"
  -- Preben Moeller, IISS.