Hi,
Well in the spirit of who-gives-a-damn-about-TNE I have gone back to
working on my current campaign universe. Specifically I have decided to
give it more of a "history" and connection with the pre-Imperium
history.
Anyway one of the major areas of work are the Sword Worlds. There are a
lot of very strange things about them. So I need to get as much info as
I can about what/who they are and their motivations for their settling
where they did. This info being in the context of "official" pre-history.
I'm also interested in how other GMs have interpreted the Sword World
past. Past meaning pre -200 info.
Here is what I have of their past (pre-Imperial ):
PI
- -420 Sword Worlds (colonists of Scandanavian origin) leave Terra
- -399 Sword Worlds settle Gram.
Why did they leave Terra to settle so far away? If they wanted to settle
in uncolonised space then the rimward frontier is far closer.
The Syleans contacted Vland about -495 and Vland was back in space by
- -450. So were the Terrans and obviously the Syleans were major players.
How did the Sword Worlders get by them?
Why in a time of resurging space activity did they want to go into the
middle of nowhere to start a Confederation?
How many settlers left Terra?
Why did it take them 21 years? At jump 2 it takes about 6 years to get from
Sol to the Marches. The Itzin who landed on Darrian in -1520 took only
about 7 years. The Itzin were travelling as the Long Night was starting
and had about 30,000 settlers. A possible reason for the delay is that
about -420 the Long Night was ending however the vast majority of the
worlds of the 1st Imperium were still in decline and had no ability to
support starports and such facilities......
These Sword worlders seem in no way related to Piper's view of the Sword
Worlds other than in name. They certainly have had no major military succeses
to speak of.
Ameer