Perusing the old JTAS article, I noticed that the Bwap's homeworld was
given as "Marhaban in the Lentuli Subsector", with no Sector given.
Having no clue where Lentuli might be, I grepped my friendly neighborhood
sector data files (from sunbane)...This is what I got:
emptyq.sec:
Marhaban 0426 A4697AB-E 801 Im K8 IV
lishun.sec:
Marhaban 3033 E31099B-C Hi Na In 821 Li G4 V M1 D
All well and good, except that these are both awful candidates, in my
opinion...First of all, the Lishun site: it's got nearly no atmosphere,
no water, and no starport, whereas the Bwap's are described as being
uncomfortable in anything less than 95% humidity and as having been given
Jump drive by the Vilani. The impression I got (I haven't the article
with me) was that the Bwaps had a large presence in space and had been
contacted fairly early by the First Imperium. Anyway, the Lishun
Marhaban, although "fairly" close to Vland, seems an awful prospect for
the Newt homeworld.
Empty Quarter's Marhaban is better, but seems a tad far away to have been
contacted "early" by the Vilani. Anybody have any facts/insight into this?
On a slightly different note:
Most Traveller products, up till now, have left the Minor Races largely
ignored. We've learned about them largely through articles in magazines.
I'd like to see GDW put out a Minor Race sourcebook at some point,
detailing some of the common, starfaring, non-major races, like the
Ithklur, the Bwaps, the Vegans, and so forth....
Dane
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