Responding to Adrian Hurt, RE: "plans" in the Rebellion Sourcebook:
These are not deck plans, just the same specs you find in the
rulebooks, in (old) supplements 7 & 9, etc. I apologize for
not being more specific.
Responding to Jim Baranski, RE: Xhosa
When one of the largest worlds in the subsector also has
the lowest population, there has to be some explanation.
The world has a water supply and an atmosphere which is
breathable (albeit only with a filter mask). It also
has a (frontier) starport. It seemed obvious to me that
whoever these 90 people were, they had to be special.
I began searching for plausible explanations, and when
I thought of a group of psionic psychohistorians, I knew
that they fit perfectly into the "shattered imperium" setting.
Weren't the foundations formed to reunite a shattered imperium
of their own?
Granted, I could have come up with a more mundane explanation
had I worked at it, but I couldn't see any reason to do so when
this one fit the campaign so well and provided me with a major
instrument of mystery and manipulation. You can imagine my
delight when I discovered that my primary PC (there is only
one at this point) had not read any of the Foundation books.
Now I'm debating whether or not it would be too much of a dead
give-away to name the NPC I mentioned "Gendibal".
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Ed Driscoll
The University of Michigan
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