From: Roger Myhre [email removed]
>I don't know how many of you are HIWG members, but those of you who are
>will by looking through the back issues of AABP see that I have made
>several changes to the Gvurrdon sector. Rukh and Anti-Rukh are long
>gone. The new troublespots are the border between Thirz Empire and
>Society of Equals. Anyone interested in getting data for Gvurrdon in TNE
>please mail me a DD disk and I'll return it with whatever I got. (couple
Interesting... I noticed in DGP's "Vilani & Vargr" that the
borders in Gvurrdon had changed from the original Vargr Supplement
(Thirz had grabbed a few Society Worlds, Rukh had swallowed half of
the Anti-Rukh) and I've been using Thirz-Society conflict as a
backdrop for one of my e-mail groups. So what happened to the Rukh?
I imagine they swallowed the Anti-Rukh (the Antis just didn't have
what it takes -- no decent starports, low-tech vs. TL15, Type A, large
yards...). Did the Rukh fall apart? If so, there are a couple of
(LARGE) TL-15 Vargr worlds "on the loose". Did they join someone
else? Did they change their name? What? Who? How?
Can you e-mail the Gvurrdon data and history, or put it up for
ftp? I avoid surface mail like the plague. Also, do you have stats
for the next sector spinward? I would like to see what the rest of
the Thirz Empire looks like, as I haven't gotten around to rolling the
rest of it up, yet.
>Zhodani. In my campaign Thirz Empire is Zhodani backed, while what's
>left of Thoengling are Imperial backed. And the zoo needs the
>stability much as Regency needs it.
Yah, that's mostly what I did. I figured that a strong Vargr
nation that close to Zho borders was probably on good relations with
the Zhodani, or the Zhos would have picked a fight with them and
broken them up years ago. I have been running the Thirz as having a
vaguely Irish-Celtic "government" -- a bunch of semi-autonomous
planetary "kings" and clan-lords owing fealty to the "High King"
(mistranslated as Emperor by the Imperials). I see the Society
of Equals as a loose confederation, based on the name and the
various Vargr scenarios that have been set there. Right now (1112) the
Thirz lords are hungry for the rich worlds of the Society of Equals,
and are picking a fight based on the multi-national slave trade going
on between them. (The Society allows slavery, the Thirz don't.
Extra-national corsairs raid Thirz and independant worlds for slaves
to sell on Society worlds.)
-- Cynthia