Comment on Space Index - Group 1 Marinagua

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Marinagua published by Group One

Marinagua (mair-in-ah'-guah) is an unfriendly place. Bands of brigands roam the countryside. The weapons industry is the most prosperous of all business concerns. Murder and mayhem are commonplace. Egg-smashing parties are a popular form of entertaiment, and of late, public torture-fest have become common. Inter-city travel is almost non-existent. Canibalism is not uncommon. The postal service is irreglar.

Another in Group One's folios focusing on a single world in the Traveller universe, Marinagua is a planet in the Borealis Kantel subsector of the Theta Borealis sector. Although not near as meaty as Hydronaut (above), this world-write-up consists of only 18 pages. What you get is a simple world description for the GM to make his playground.

There's a large, full color fold out map of Maringua. There are several types of indiginous animals (each with its own illustration). There are encounter charts. And, there is description of three landmarks on the world: Feres'ne Dur, a bastion carved into the side of a mountain; Balac Pont, the capital city of Marinagua (it ain't much); and Derlack Monwa, a massive palace and tomb.

An alien race is included as well. The Alejia (ah'-lay-hi'-ah).

All-in-all, what you get in this one is the basics. There's not a lot of meat in this one, but what there is, is interesting. This is fodder for the GM's imagination--a place in which to set a campaign, or an adventure.

Reading through Marinagua, it reminded me of a Hammer's Slammers novel I once read called THE SHARP END. If you've ever read that David Drake novel, you've got a good idea for the feel of the place depicted in this planet folio.

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You forgot that the Atmosphere is 'Corrosive' (Code B Corrosive) which might have been a way to make it more interesting. The requirements for existing in a corrosive atmosphere are quite high (near impossible, but there is always a chance, after all the Soviets made it to Venus several times - all with probes that lasted just a little while...a ...little....while. The Venera 13 lander even survived for 127 minutes! Good old 1980s Soviet technology! Anyway I always found this a bit unrealistic so I modified it to a tainted Atmosphere, owning to the IISS survey was a distant survey in 1060s for the 2nd Survey and the System map from Travellerworlds map has a large world in the same orbit an inferno world orbit near it, so the 'Distant Survey' instruments did not capture the Marinagua world accurately IMTU.

Also the starport is a A type, so with the conflict and savage world such as this, they have built a starport that is able to construct interstellar ships. Think about that for a moment.

IMTU, I have rebuilt the world and Alejia a bit to make a little more than the 'Egg-smashing' Warrior SCI-FI Trope and made them a bit more complex. Using a deep tribal make-up, keeping the suspicion-mind, but with a complex honor system to avoid open conflict b/c the last conflict resulted in a nuclear war (hence the tainted atmosphere and TL 8). Conflict style occurs, but it is more ritualized.