Why core-ward?
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mike wightman
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Because grandfather manipulated them into doing so via a psionic device.
kilemall
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GF is kind of a jerk.
Also, there are no known potential territorial rivals to Coreward (or at least none that the Zhodani have been willing to tell the other powers of Charted Space about.)
Even without the psionic device, Spinward is their only other option for long-range expedition: Trailing takes them right across the Vargr Extants, while Rimward takes them through a region where they have active proxy rivalries with the Imperium, and then into the Aslan Hierate.
Even without the psionic device, Spinward is their only other option for long-range expedition: Trailing takes them right across the Vargr Extants, while Rimward takes them through a region where they have active proxy rivalries with the Imperium, and then into the Aslan Hierate.
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Spinward Flow
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Path of least (psionic) resistance.
{ fails saving throw vs psionics }
Yup. No resistance to coreward!
I found it,
Traveller Alien Module 4, Zhodani.
I really need to get a print copy of the Alien modules.
I find that I am more apt to read a print copy than a PDF.
G. Kashkanun Anderson
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True now, but that was not the case when the Core Expeditions initially started. The First Expedition was set up in IY -4006, only a few decades after the end of the Consolidation Wars. The Zhodani were aware of the Vilani (though not the other way around), but they also knew that the nearest outpost of the nascent Ziru Sirka was at least two sectors to trailing of them, and that there was nothing else of any note found in Charted Space at the time, and definitely not anything to rimward. Not even the Sky Raiders, who did not come up on Consulate radar until the late -3900s.
The CT Zhodani Alien Module does mention early expeditions up and down the Orion Arm, as well as out to the rim. These must have occurred between IY -5500 and IY -4000.
Commander Truestar
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Everyone's always wondered what's at the center?
First, the center of the Earth...
Eventually, the center of the galaxy.
Of course, the writers said they got a psionic device from GF....
But, in the end, it's always the "center of"...
First, the center of the Earth...
Eventually, the center of the galaxy.
Of course, the writers said they got a psionic device from GF....
But, in the end, it's always the "center of"...
Condottiere
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I am the centre of my universe.
Spinward Flow
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Condottiere
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one would have to be to prune one's own children the way Yaskodray did.
Trailing, they have the Vargr extents.
Rimward, they have the Aslan Hierate.
North and South don't happen with J-space...
Spinward, we don't have good data...
The Core is inherently more interesting, as the astrographics are going to be revealing more and more.... because it's where the visual density is the highest and thus more can be hidden.
THe bulk of the Consulate is actually further coreward than the Marches; see https://travellermap.com/?p=-82.833!91.647!3.8
Fair. The Zhodani don't encounter the Vargr before -2800 or the Vilani until -2000. At least not officially!
My mother still says "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out." It's not just a Droyne thing.
mike wightman
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What? They paid for something with their own money?
