Sword Worlds -- Quick Notes

Hooray!  The TML is back up!

Just a couple of notes on Mark Urbin's questions about the Sword Worlds
in TML-Not! #6:

In the Rebellion Era, the Sword Worlds are still divided into the the two
groups that they were split up into at the end of the Fifth Frontier War.
(Details on request).

If you believe the numbers in the world descriptions, there are only three
really important Sword Worlds--Sacnoth, which has the highest TL--12,
Narsil, whose A population represents the majority of the total population
of the polity, and Gram, in between the two in both tech level and
population.  So, the important question is whether or not Sacnoth would
retain jump capability.

However, as I recall, the question cannot really be answered "authoritatively",
since the Hard Times book deosn't show a category for subsectors in the
Spinward MArches outside the Imperium.  Ah well.

I don't think the general tone of historical data would support a Sword Worlds-
Darrian alliance, since they've been at odds for centuries.  (Think of the
Serbs and Croats here--they've had centuries to make peace with each other,
too, and it hasn't stuck, now, has it?)

Rob Dean