Gzirr!k'l Sector

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Randomly non-Random

I started by randomly generating the worlds, then went through and drew routes, then went back and uplifted some worlds so that the routes made sense. After discussions with inexorabletash I removed and moved quite a lot of worlds so that stellar density looked 'normal'.

I have done the same for Ricenden, which was a little easier as I didn't have to go to too much effort to make the borders make sense. I am then going to go and make sure that the tech-levels make sense for a culture that has been around for centuries and should have had time to standardise, especially around their homeworld.

Cheers

 

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Krotan Primacy is back

After discussions it looks like the Lithkind don't (for copyright reasons) exist in the OTU, so I have reinstated the Krotan Primacy, the only reference I can find of this is ..

"The red area (Kr for Krotan Primacy) was actually Hiver space before the war with the K'kree, including the zone between the Primacy and the Federation. As a settlement of the war, the area of Krotan (a Hiver client race) space was set aside as a buffer zone.
The Krotan officially remained neutral to the Hivers, but over time, as the embers of war cooled, the Krotan have become trading partners with the Hivers as well as the K'kree. The latter was required to keep relations in an un-excited state."

This comes from http://home.earthlink.net/~ngc5139/FDA/history.html, via the Wayback Machine.

 

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Maybe I'm obssessed

I have uploaded the UWP an metadata for this Sector and the Ricenden Sector as well.

http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?p=425058#post425058

 

[77topaz]

Maybe you could upload them somewhere in the way that I have done with Explorerbase (here); it might be easier to view (no unzipping etc. required).

 

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Traveller map

I was hoping to use the TravellerMap to host them

 

[inexorabletash]

And I'm travelling, er, traveling at the moment, so can't upload them. Soon!

 

[77topaz]

I was hoping to use the TravellerMap to host them

I meant, storing the text-data on a site; what TravellerMap would use for the "Source" link in the credits section.

 

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Blog

I've started a blog - it is empty at the moment, as I want to email FFE to let them (I know it's basically Marc Miller, but I like to imagine a vast bureaucratic empire with thousands at work there) know - as per the Fair Use agreement.

I plan to add stuff as I think about it, for example what I the Krotan (of the Krotan Primacy look like).

 

[GypsyComet]

I have found a list of subsectors and alligencies at the Federation Development Agency (from the wayback machine). They are by Leroy Guatney

http://web.archive.org/web/20030321071026/http://home.earthlink.net/~ngc5139/FDA/grock.htm

There is also a dot map which might be of use to me, although I am dreading going through it!

http://web.archive.org/web/20060302052327/http://home.earthlink.net/~ngc5139/main/imp2main.gif

The dot map doesn't get quite that far. Zoom in on it and you can see sector corners marked with four little green dots. It does include Luretiir!girr, though. That Leroy got around to doing a dot map for that sector doesn't surprise me, but his own subsector name lists suggest that is as far as he got. This work all came out of the old HIWG days, when we were writing in the vain hope of being published by GDW or DGP. A few of us actually were, but most of the HIWG efforts sat unpublished until the web came along to short circuit the process. Much of Leroy's material as it can now be found was plain compilation and workmanlike baseline stuff like UWP mass production. It also all counts as "fan" material instead of "Canon", so if you find it inconvenient for your own work, ignore it.

"Canon", by the way, is for authors writing more Canon, be it for Mongoose, FFE, or some other past or future licensee. Fan work has been absorbed into Canon on occasion, but getting over-written is just as likely. I ran a Rebellion campaign in a fan version of Daibei for a couple years, so the version that became official seems like foreign ground to me...

 

[Qstor2]

We can get in touch with Mike McKeown who put together the adjacent Kaa G!'kul. He based it on old dotmaps by L.W.L. Guatney, which predate the GURPS supplement. I would give the GURPS description priority; Mike would probably accept corrections to make one of the polities the Lithkind's SELK.

I just saw this and responded off the boards I redid all of the UWPs that Leroy generated to add proper base and government codes for Hiver and K'Kree worlds from the CT alien mods. I also tried to fix any blatant errors I saw from the random generation.

I'm slowly working on an unofficial Kaa G!'kul sector fan supplement. A friend of mine did an image of a Hiver fighting a K'Kree for a cover.

thanks for your work on the adjoining sector.

Mike

 

[Qstor2]

I plan to add stuff as I think about it, for example what I the Krotan (of the Krotan Primacy look like).

A created a version of them and my friend drew an image.

Mike

 

[Qstor2]

I'm going to try and work on the sector more this year in hopes but doing an unofficial work up.

Mike

 

[GypsyComet]

Necromancy!

Mongoose is working in this area, and the overlapping realities have come into question again.

The upshot is that, with consultations, the Pocket is being rearranged a bit to keep as much as possible in play.

More details soon.

 

[Qstor2]

It's interesting the MJD mentioned the Krotan in the new MGT book. I think I've only seen them mentioned by Leroy.

 

[GypsyComet]

Yes, Leroy was pretty much alone in Quadrant IV back in the day. For...reasons. His version of the region, silly bits and all, has stood mostly because few people have chosen to develop the trailing side of the map. Some of his stuff needs to be ignored or rewritten, as it is obvious in hindsight that he was just spitballing much of the time.

Traveller Map and the wiki now broadly present the path forward. The Lithkind have replaced the Lishun Suguugki, who are now stateless but still present as nomads. Leroy's only statement on the Lishun was "Vilani Nomads" so...

Lithkind space (aka SELK) fits into the old redline map spot the Lishun were in. The world count is close, and the descriptions of Lithkind interactions with the K'kree also fit that spot.

The Krotan Primacy made its way into the Mongoose work because Mongoose is under standing directions to refer to Traveller Map, and Leroy's old work has often been placeholding for over 20 years. Mongoose now cements them in place, which is not a bad thing.