Yes. Everybody knows that. But what's your point?Condottiere wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:06 pmFor societies where property inheritance and line of succession within family lines is an issue, the one sure thing is who is anyone's mother.
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- Sat Nov 21, 2020 7:40 am
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Resident Zhodani expert?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5783
Re: Resident Zhodani expert?
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:59 am
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Resident Zhodani expert?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5783
Re: Resident Zhodani expert?
Errr... no. That sentence makes no sense on any level.Condottiere wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:59 pmMatrilineal was a primitive alternative to a paternity test,
I also don't see what you meant to achieve by your posting.
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:52 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Resident Zhodani expert?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5783
Re: Resident Zhodani expert?
For those of you who have both the new Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 1 and the MgT Zhodani module: Is there anything substantially new in the former as compared to the latter? Content-wise (not artwork & stats) I mean.
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Resident Zhodani expert?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5783
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 6:51 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Resident Zhodani expert?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5783
Re: Resident Zhodani expert?
The Fifth Frontier War can be simply about the Zhodani attempting to establish a Neutral Zone between themselves and the Imperium. Nothing else. No Waves, Empress or otherwise. The biggest metaplot event that you need is the War. It doesn't have to be part of some other Big Cosmic Event which will ...
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 6:43 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Resident Zhodani expert?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5783
Re: Resident Zhodani expert?
- What body parts of a clothed Zhodani can you never touch without their permission? - How do the Tavrchedl' deal with someone coming out as trans or non binary? I don't know about touching body parts. But one thing I would not touch, if I were you, is that last question. Because that would require...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:52 am
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionnaire
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2703
Re: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionna
Dayum! Maybe the analogies to "primitive animals" I mentioned above weren't false after all!Imeanunoharm wrote:Another species transposed and modified by the ancients?
I give you the tardigrade:

- Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:35 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionnaire
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2703
Re: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionna
Recall that the GT book is set in roughly 1117, on the other side of a Frontier War. Mongoose has stated before that their books are all set in 1104-1105, so some events and revelations we old fans are used to simply haven't triggered yet. The GT Zhodani book did not contain major events or revelat...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:34 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionnaire
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2703
Re: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionna
Ok, we disagree about Pulver's aliens (and yes, I know these are his Spacemaster aliens but does not defeat the point that we could be dealing with a species capable of metamorphism and hence two radically different civilizations of the same species - think what butterflies/frogs would have in comm...
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:32 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionnaire
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2703
Re: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionna
And, maybe, we could be dealing with a sentient being that is capable of metamorphism? Hence both could be accurate but told from a different point of view. But, if I were to cast my vote, I liked the GURPS version more. Sorry DonM yours were too close what has already been written and GT broke the...
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:21 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionnaire
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2703
Re: Alien Module 4 Zhodani: ADDAXUR Questions and Questionna
I voted for "The Mongoose Addaxur is more interesting and is canon", but my actual stance is "The Mongoose Addaxur are more interesting but I couldn't care less which one is canon".
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:10 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Article on other worlds possible plant colors...interesting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1066
Re: Article on other worlds possible plant colors...interest
Here is another article on the same topic: With pictures! 
http://www.brazosport.edu/sites/Current ... Plants.pdf
Also consider that the color of the sky itself will be different on other worlds:
http://www.xenology.info/Xeno/5.4.2.htm

http://www.brazosport.edu/sites/Current ... Plants.pdf
Also consider that the color of the sky itself will be different on other worlds:
http://www.xenology.info/Xeno/5.4.2.htm
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:38 am
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Aramis: The Traveller Adventure Preview
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3609
Re: Aramis: The Traveller Adventure Preview
Another scan error, I'd assume. Originally it was a B, misread by the scanner software as an 8.GamingGlen wrote:Reading the preview it says Aramis has a corrosive atmosphere, but the UWP is showing "8" which is a Dense atmosphere and breathable.
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:21 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: Example animals to help with creature creation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1098
Re: Example animals to help with creature creation
Classic Traveller was far more imaginative in its sizing - it went up to 32,000kg if I remember correctly? My own MGT table now goes up to 180,000kg which allows for animals larger than the largest ever earth animal - the blue whale - pretty likely I would think on a low-G world. I always liked the...
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:58 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: CT Question: High Guard ship design
- Replies: 5
- Views: 953
Re: CT Question: High Guard ship design
The Classic HG ship design system is not broken. It's fairly simple, yet offers a nice range of options. In addition to what rust said, one thing to keep in mind: The sizes of maneuver and jump drive are basically switched when compared to MGT's system (which was derived from the original LBB2): Cla...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:15 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8190
Re: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
Distance from the central worlds of the Consulate, isolation and time. Not a conspiracy; The Zhodani do not set up isolated colonies without a proper infrastructure. In any case, non of this answers any of the questions. a natural evolution. I do not think this word means what you think it means. T...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:03 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8190
Re: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
That actually is a sterling example of "increasingly bizarre". And it doesn't make an ounce of sense: - How would these "mutations" not be detected as early as the embryonic stage? - How and why would these "mutations" develop? - Why would they mysteriously afflict large masses of people? - Even if ...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:39 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8190
Re: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
Some thoughts I had on this: IIRC the TNE (or TNE:1248) stated that the Wave was moving at light-speed, slow but steady. The Consulate is not mentioned previously as being impacted until TNE (Bearers of the Flame) time, so if it is 1105, doesn't this mean the Wave is about 100LY (~33 hexes) away at...
- Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:22 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8190
Re: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
All this time, and people have been looking for ever-more complicated magic to explain the Empress Wave. Telepathy. Yaskoydray. Ancient Artifacts. Yeah, so? At least it's somewhat grounded in canon, if not exactly in common sense. Consider the philosophy of Nihilism. Once it grips you, it's very ha...
- Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:02 pm
- Forum: Traveller
- Topic: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8190
Re: The Empress Wave - An Alternative Thought
the name 'chilling thought' is potentially a perfectly accurate description. Ideas and memes are pernicious, infectious and often destructive. In a society of telepaths, considerably more so, especially with the Tavrchedl acting a mental 'dirty needle' to spread it around whilst trying to find out ...