CT Only: Imperial Citizen

[Supplement Four]

I think it was in the first article about the Gazelle in Journal or Challenge, don't recall what it was called at that point, that specifically stated the Gazelle class was built to TL14 so it would have a larger base of worlds to draw spares from. Which makes sense.

I've never read that article. I should. But, this is more along my way of thinking. Homeworld TL do matter, and the Imperium is not a blanket TL 15.

 

[Supplement Four]

You have never done your own setting or subsector?

Nope. I'm a big fan of the created support material in CT. I typically used the Spinward Marches in my games, and I can't tell you how many times I've run the Traveller Adventure.

 

[mike wightman]

All I can say is I am absolutely gobsmacked that you haven't made up your own sandbox...

give it a try, you will appreciate the beauty of CT all the more.

 

[Supplement Four]

All I can say is I am absolutely gobsmacked that you haven't made up your own sandbox...

give it a try, you will appreciate the beauty of CT all the more.

I've done it for other games. AD&D, BITD. Recently, for my Conan RPG.

I love creating my sandbox.

For me, it's a HUGE amount of work.

I'm much more apt to take a published adventure and customize that.

It's all about time.

 

[aramis]

You have never done your own setting or subsector?

CT was designed for you to make stuff up for yourself rather than stick to the OTU as it became.

In my humble opinion you have never truly appreciated CT until you start with a blank sheet of hex paper and make up your own setting - without the Third Imperium or the restrictions the OTU brings with it.

Likewise, one doesn't truly appreciate the OTU unless one has grasped the huge differences in the process from the OTU's results.

 

[Supplement Four]

Likewise, one doesn't truly appreciate the OTU unless one has grasped the huge differences in the process from the OTU's results.

I have detailed some worlds and solar systems. I completely detailed all 26 worlds of the Aramis subsector once, using the world data from TTA, Book 6, and Grand Survey/Grand Census (actually, I think I used MT's World Builder's Handbook as I didn't have GS/GC yet).

So, I've been down that road.

And, it was a ton of work. I did it by hand, rolling dice. No spreadsheets or programs.

I just haven't started with a blank subsector grid and created my own worlds for a sandbox (though I have created worlds from scratch as well).

 

[Garnfellow]

Unfortunately the folks at DGP got their setting details wrong. Surprise.

The vast majority of humans in the galaxy by the time the Terrans encountered the Imperium were Vilani. . . . The vast majority of the Third Imperium will be almost entirely purely Vilani genetically. That is unless their Terran overlords practiced a particular medieval right...

I'm not sure this is necessarily true, at least from a genetics perspective. We use "Vilani" as a convenient description for the inhabitants of the Ziru Sirka, but this is almost certainly a gross oversimplification. Given its size and age, the First Imperium was likely far more textured than we generally credit.

The Vilani incorporated many minor human races into the First Imperium. We know only about a few that retained some modicum of cultural or genetic distinctiveness even in the wake of the Consolidation Wars, such as the Anakundu, Answerin, Darmine, Geonee, or Suerrat.

But there may very well have been many more races that were completely absorbed into the "Vilani" population. While the Vilani were cultural imperialists, there's no evidence they shared the Solomani obsession over genetic purity. So there might have been a lot of genetic intermixing within the Ziru Sirka. While Vilani language and culture were dominant throughout the Imperium, Vilani genetic heritage -- and the correspondingly long lifespan -- might have been rare outside of the Vilani Main.