Imperial minor humans

[rancke]

The Darmine are humans.

Canonically? Do you have a reference? The writeup I have of them is credited to Greg Videll and is labeled as non-canon.


Hans

 

[Peter Newman]

Canonically? Do you have a reference? The writeup I have of them is credited to Greg Videll and is labeled as non-canon. Hans

"Darmine: Cultural region in the Zarushagar sector. Darmine had a separate but submerged cultural identity within the First Imperium and happily threw off that dominion when the First Imperium fell. Allowed to flourish by the Rule of Man, the community of worlds survived the Long Night with little harm." MT IE p 22.

Per MT RM p102 Mega Traveller 'Cultural Regions' of the Imperium are 'Regions which historically developed independent cultures and which have retained their cultural identity under the Imperium.'

The list includes Antares (just a culture), Sylea (human minor race), Vland (major human race), Vega (non-human minor race) and the Darmine. Thus Darmines inclusion on the list does not prove that they are a minor human race.

The older online Traveller library data says:

Darmine Cultural Region

Cultural region in Zarushagar sector. Darmine had a separate but submerged cultural identity within the First Imperium and happily threw off that domination when the it fell. Allowed to flourish by the Rule of Man, the community of worlds survived the Long Night with little harm.

The first Darmine Corporate, an economic consortium, existed from -1643 to 100 and covered about five subsectors. This interstellar common market came to an end during the Ilelish Pacification Campaign (76 to 120); indeed, the Darmine Corporate was the major focus of that campaign.

The main world of the Darmine region is Ishag ( Lias / Zarushagar 1323). A peculiarity of that world is that the natives do not use an "ian" or "er" suffix.

UWP (1120): B525986-A N Hi In 515DCs.

http://web.archive.org/web/20091027...et.au/~davidjw/libdata/alphabet/d/darmine.htm


The Darmine are mentioned in articles Greg did for Challenge magazine, but they were later (TNE era) articles. I'll leave it to you to decide their canonicity. Greg says that the Darmine language is known as 'Kadli'.

If you accept the Darmine homeworld data below than they couldn't be merely a culture, since it would take a minor human race or a non-human race to breathe the air:

Ishag 1323 Zarushagar. Second Survey Statistics
Ishag 1323 B525966-A N Hi In 515 Im G1 V

I wrote my own non-cannonical version of the Darmine in the 1990's. Basically they're delusional numerological obsessed, nymphomanical, borderline OCD, green-haired (due to the chelation of the heavy metals, especially copper, that taint Ishags air), bisexual, merchants. My motto was 'If they're not annoying, you're not playing them right.'

 

[Whipsnade]

...(or rather, the ethnicity of his name)...

What use is there in determining the "ethnicity" of a name?

Names are labels, nothing more. Names, both personal and familial, are swapped, traded, adopted, abandoned, and passed along between different groups of people almost as often as flu virii. After several thousand years and the human mania for cultural appropriation, linking a certain name to anything concrete is a crap shoot.

 

[rancke]

What use is there in determining the "ethnicity" of a name?

It helps me to come up with names for my NPCs that are not quite so heavily biased towards Anglic and Scandinavian names as they used to be.

Names are labels, nothing more. Names, both personal and familial, are swapped, traded, adopted, abandoned, and passed along between different groups of people almost as often as flu virii.

Which is exactly why a generic table works. People all over the Imperium may be naming their children Lumbar and Cressa after the protagonists of a famous Sylean epic. A holodrama features a popular Answerin character and suddenly thousands of people on worlds that have never been visited by an Answerin are naming their children Swoon and Swoona. Byarvouf the Vargr saves the life of a human comrade in the Scouts and the friend names his son after his rescuer.

After several thousand years and the human mania for cultural appropriation, linking a certain name to anything concrete is a crap shoot.

Well, you still see some correlation between populations and ethnicity of names. I point to the table for Ardenite names that I posted previously. A similar table could be made for every world. I've made a few for the most important worlds in my campaigns. But generally I do not plan to link the names I come up with with anything. I just want them to reflect the preceding thousands of years and the human mania for cultural appropriation.


Hans

 

[Whipsnade]

It helps me to come up with names for my NPCs that are not quite so heavily biased towards Anglic and Scandinavian names as they used to be.

NPC naming makes a great deal of sense.

Any chance of the tables finding their way to the File section here?

 

[rancke]

NPC naming makes a great deal of sense.

Any chance of the tables finding their way to the File section here?

It's still very much a work in progress. I can give you the first part here, though:

Ethnicity of Imperial names

Table 1: (D100):

01-53: Solomani
54-80: Vilani
81-93: Minor human
94-00: Non-human


Personal name: Throw on table 1.

Family name:

If personal name is...

...Solomani: Throw 1D: 1 = Same Solomani ethnicity; 2-3 = A different Solomani ethnicity; 4-6 = Throw on Table 1.
...Vilani: Throw 1D: 1-4 = Vilani; 5-6 = Throw on table 1.
...Minor human: Throw 1D: 1-3 = Same minor human; 4-6 = Throw on table 1.
...Non-human: Throw 2D: 2-11 = Same non-human; 12 = Throw on table 1.


For Solomani names I roll on a sub-table:

Solomani subtable (D100)


01-12 Anglic
13-17 Arabic
18-25 Chinese
26-28 Ethiopian
29-33 French
34 Gaelic
35-39 German
40-42 Greek
43-44 Hungarian
45-52 Indian
53-57 Japanese
58-60 Polish
61-65 Portuguese
66-67 Romanian
68-75 Russian
76-78 Scandinavian
79-80 Slavonic
81-88 Spanish
89-96 Turkish
97-00 Other

After than I find a list of names of the ethnicity in question on the Internet.

For Vilani personal names I have a very crude table; for family names I have a slightly less crude table. The format makes them difficult to upload (multiple columns in a Words file).

When I roll a Minor Human race or a Non-human race, I have problems getting any further. Currently I generally just make up a nonsens word.


Hans

 

[Whipsnade]

Thank you for that.