Recent content by G'Naakbusters

A stray Hiver larva, and they don't know what it is, so think it's just a funny animal.

An idea that I find amusing -- have a newly rediscovered world with two sophont populations, one Humaniti of Terran Confederation-era Solomani descent and the other a species that is supposedly an uplift "from old Terra" but which is blatantly not. "We are descended from the Humans of Earth...

Now that's some nice artwork. Good work making the K'kree look menacing, powerful, and dignified. But put that G'naak down, you don;t know where it's been.

The Traveller version would be a Vilani product that nags you about correct preparation and threatens to report you for deviating from the standard recipe and presentation.

😁 Heh.

I recall that in the Babylon 5 roleplay game (which was also Mongoose), there was an Earth Alliance technology level system that was (in-universe, deliberately) incredibly vague and not really useful precisely because of all the variables. The implication was that Earth tried to draw up a system...

Woo! I know what I'm doing with the rest of the evening, then. Edit: We finally get some focus on Antares; nice to see!

One small thing -- Dynchia, Ghenani, Happrhani, Iltharan and Mal'Gnar are Human Minor Races, and Katangan is a Human ethnic/regional bloc. They're currently under Aliens.

The Major Race/Minor Race business is the equivalent of the Council Race/Non-Council Race divide from the Mass Effect games. It's a matter of politics and perceived status, whatever other justifications are made for it, and it defines the setting around what the big players -- in this case the...

To my lasting shame, I never got that. I got the bit that they are literally from Bland (because of the whole v/b business); if only because Agent of the Imperium makes it overt. But I didn't get the "villainy". 😁 To quote Hermes Conrad, "We didn't choose to be bureaucrats; No that's what our...

Population controls would definitely depend upon the era, in fairness. Third child inherits in Vilani culture; it's almost a reverse ihatei situation. Given their great expansionist ethic for much of their history it seems that once the Vilani got jump drive they were more interested in...

I don't have anything constructive to offer, but I wanted to say that I think it's great that your sons' character ideas are "Han Solo type" and "A slugcat". 😁 I'm imagining a visit to Tech-World, or maybe Floria, with the slugcat taking up spear and just disappearing into the foundations...

That is a good point. Perhaps we should assume it requires a very pure Vilani ancestry to have the longevity benefit, and that the average Imperial citizen is mostly Vilani with some Solomani and Minor Human Race ancestry, so that's the default in the mechanics. Long life comes from specifying...

"Personal log. Crewman Dzarrv expressed concerns that the native anti-insect sprays might have averse affects on Vargr biology, he read something about "possible hair loss". I insisted it was fine and that he should join the party. I'm currently hiding in the laundry room. I have to be quiet...

I do think the Mongoose art has supported the (logical) idea of a majority-Vilani Imperial populace. In a source like Deepnight Revelation, where we see illustrations of a number of crew, the majority have a "default" bronze skin tone (my understanding of Vilani being a mostly homogenous...