Hi all.
Well... i'm the "friend" Cymew is talking about.
First of all i would like to say that i didn't know about this site, and had my Traveller days _way_ behind me, i didn't really care either...
Since my interrest for GT/MT has been renewed thanks to no one else than Cymew, you can count on, that this post isn't the last from me.
However, what happened was that i decided to invest in several of the GT books and read as much as I could. Then it struck me, there isn't much positive written about Solomani or the Confederation...
The Confederation is losing it's grip over it's populace. SolSec meddles too much and the party is fractionalized and inactive.
No one likes them. The Hivers used too, but not any more for some reason. The Aslan never liked them. The Vegans don't like them because the Vegans were treated as second class while subjects to the Conf.
Some Solomanis proposed that Vargrs really are Solomani too, since they originated from Terra, the Vargr are laughing at that ofcourse. However, the other humans, the Vilani for instance, are not potential Solomanis...
why not? and while I can just decide that things are different in MTU, I think that it's somewhat strange that all details referenceing to Solomani (in the various GT sourcebooks that I just bought) there isn't anything other than "they failed" or "the Confederation is bad".
Ofcourse, all this ranting could only be my own superiority complex (as someone hinted)...
Well hey, i _am_ a man of Sol and I expect that my rightfull place among the stars is to be recognized.
mator-who-is-about-to-get-some-sunshine-from-you-know-what