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Singularity Sourcebook, "Naalir," page 18 - "The [sublight alien ship discovered in -4275] was large by Vilani standards, approximately 750,000 tons. Its engines were strange, not at all like those that Humaniti had developed, nor those of the Vargr, Aslan, or any of the other species the Vilani...

Doesn't it sound like a kick-ass game?

Yes, but . . . CT Alien Module 8 had the Maghiz occur in -925/-924, so after the -1044 crossing of the Rift -- making Pre-Maghiz Darrian-Aslan contact possible. This is supported by GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds, which claimed that "Mithril had prehistoric populations of both Aslan and...

Teahehwaih is a very weird outlier. Personally, I treat it as having only limited TL G capabilities. I suspect that if Marc's T5SS review had even gotten around to Afawahisa it would have been knocked that tech level down to TL F or even E. Older sector data files -- which often reflected a...

The first crossing of the Rift was -1040, and at that point some Aslan clans would have been at TL10 but with Jump-2 capability, so your base assumptions check out. By -1000 the Reach would have been very much like early Viking exploration of North America: the Aslan might have roamed quite a...

Turns out the reference is also in The Traveller Book:

From The Traveller Book: So, maybe? Note that this passage seems to forget about the good old 400-ton Type R subsidized merchant. In my own campaign the 300-ton Type U armed packet is also frequently issued subsidies from individual worlds or even subsector governments. Somewhere there's a...

I'm not certain about Aslan males being significantly taller than females. CT Aslan has the species Which MT Solomani and Aslan interprets as This is generally how I've gone: males and females are about the same height but males are bulkier. Interestingly, GURPS Traveller reduced average...

My ideal Guide to Charted Space would look a lot like a Terran Trade Authority book -- a diegetic, immersive artifact that primarily uses images and short bits of text to convey the feel for the setting. No rules, no walls of text, essays or the like. Excite the reader, intrigue the reader, but...

An excellent introduction to Charted Space is Neil Grant's Traveller's Tales Vol. 1 -- it's a collection of very short vignettes all set in the Traveller universe. These can be used as inspiration or adventure hooks but all provide great examples of what life in Charted Space looks like. Neil...

Assume 170 cm is the average height of an American male in IY -2494. And 188 cm is the 90% percentile, 193 cm the 99% percentile, and 200 cm is the average NBA player. If the Aslan exhibited similar variance as humans -- and who is to say they couldn't have greater variance? -- a 228 cm (7' 6")...

Pg. 116, "Estoieie’": Change "In the Dark Nebula, the Estoieie’ capital world Syerakhir" to "In the Dark Nebula, the Estoieie’ capital world Syailei"

It's probably from the MT Referee's Manual, page 7:

Size has not actually been changed -- all written Mongoose sources still hold that Aslan average 2 metres in height. As for any artwork that appears to show otherwise, they are actually showing totally normal Aslan beside very teeny minor human races. :) More seriously, Clans of the Aslan has a...

I was definitely thinking about that passage, though I think there's something even more recent and more specific to the general Imperial population. In any case, I assumed that nonhuman species were likely over-represented in the Imperial nobility, so that 50% was a reasonable upper bound for...