Following up on this subject, the old Library Data entries do recognize
that a confusion may exist between "coreward" as most of the Traveller
galaxy recognizes it (toward the galactic core) and "coreward" as
the former Imperium recognized it (toward Capital and the Core Worlds).
The Zhodani *certainly* use "coreward" in the first sense, especially
since they really don't care which way Capital is as long as it doesn't
pose a threat to them. Besides which, somewhere in the MT Ref's
Manual there is a figure on how far the Zhodani expeditions have
penetrated, and it converts to something like two hundred sector
lengths toward the Galactic Core (!!), and Capital was *much* closer
to Zhdant than that. And any Zhodani expeditionary fleet headed
for capital wouldn't be the Core Expedition anyway...it'd be more
like the Sixth Frontier War! :)
- --Steve
PS Anybody want to place any bets on how soon we'll all be calling
"Capital" Sylea again? I wonder what's going on in there....
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