Shall Not Perish 7 - Sword Worlds

By David Johnson ·

TML message #7419From bundle 592

Gentlesophonts:

The Domain of Deneb map in *MegaTraveller Journal* #1 shows the Border
Worlds, the Imperial client state established in the worlds occupied at
the end of the Fifth Frontier War.  This map is dated c1120.

In *MTJ* #3 there is Domain of Deneb UWP data to accompany the *MTJ* #1
map but it is dated c1118.  This UWP data does not show any allegiance
codes for the Border Worlds and instead lists all the Imperial-occupied
worlds as part of the Sword Worlds once again.

The `library data' that accompanied the map in *MTJ* #1 indicated that
the Border Worlds were `tightly controlled' from their capital at Beater.
Then, apparently, by *MTJ* #3 - two campaign years earlier(!) - there are
no Border Worlds.

Can anyone shed any light on this situation?  It's my sense that with the
Vargr and Aslan incursions that the Domain might have found it simpler to
no longer maintain the occupation and sustain their client state - and
the Border Worlds would have quickly fallen.

Happy Travelling,

David Johnson
Houston, Texas, USA