Re: Gamba location

Rob Dean scrawls:
>In your letter dated Wed, 14 Oct 92 11:48:31 PDT, you wrote:
>> Going beyond it won't be easy, especially if your heart's set on the Verge
>> (interesting how these Rift-edge areas fascinate us: my latest campaign is
>> set in the Cyril's Edge corner of Reft).
>
>It simplifies the game if you know there's a lot of empty space in at least
>one direction.

"Don't go that way-- you'll fall off the edge!" |->

>A Verge location would make Vargr occasional possibles, Aslan
>rather less likely, and the other major races right out.  A Daibei rift
>edge location would reverse that.

Hmmm. I guess Verge *is* a long way from the Extents, but it's close enough
to the Hierate and Dark Nebula for there to be *some* Aslan incursions
and conflict, wouldn't you think?

>I'm not too keen on psionics either, but that's the way the cards fall if
>we adopt the 8th century.  In that case, I'd still stick with the situation
>of no Psionics Institutes in the Gamba subsector.  Treating it as science
>would make a Galliard location possible if one was desired or perhaps one
>on Weelkes to draw from the larger population.  Hmmm....maybe there was one
>on Adriano before the plague.  I wonder if there might be a connection? 0-:

Not 8th, 7th. I want TL14 to be as cutting edge as possible, and the Civil
War to be recent, painful history. I'd suggest Weelkes for an Institute,
and as for Adraino and the plague, who was it who wanted to avoid cliches? |->

>The Core isn't really that far away, but yes.  Besides, by this time the wars
>are over, so fleets would have been back in position for a couple of decades.

Yes, but people are still going to be rubbed raw by distrust of the Throne
and taxes to fund refitting of the Fleets.

>(I wonder how often the Imperium moves things around?  Some U.S. Army units
>were stationed in essentially the same places in Germany for over 40 years,
>and some of the Roman military units whose history can be traced through
>inscriptions and the like were apparently stationed in the same forts for
>centuries. "My great grandfather was the first one in our family to serve in
>the 2957th CruRon, and it has been a family tradition since...")

I can see it. As borders expand, simply allocate new fleets to fill them.
Which means that the Core Fleet may pass on parade in Sylean dress uniforms.
|->

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