I'm running a T:TNE campaign in the Old Expanses with the PC's as an RCES
smash and grab unit. I was thinking about how some worlds would cope with
the Virus and I started wondering about alien races who inhabited worlds
before the Imperium. As I understand it, the Imperium didn't always worry
about what the natives thought when it wanted a new planet.
So what I want to know is this, what races in the Traveller universe would
make the most of the collapse of the Imperium? I think some races would be
better prepared than humanity since they probably had a lower (in some cases
much lower) tech level than the Imperium. Some races would probably be
working with humans to rebuild, others would see it as divine deliverance,
and others would want what was unattainable to their people (Mogwa from
The Last of the Mohicans is an example). There could even be pocket empires
of races that have attained jump drive from previous Imperial technology.
As a newcomer to Traveller, I don't know much about alien races in the game,
so any info, especially about races in or near the Old Expanses, would be
appreciated.
Bryan Porter