Recent content by Grievous

Yeah, the official canon story relies on some kind of noteworthy Manchu resurgence. They've been pretty assimilated now, but it isn't within the bounds of reason that there could be a revanchist cultural revival (which also turns into imperialism). With those assumptions, the naming and story do...

So, to me it seems it is a minority-led northern Chinese imperialist nation - dare I say, dynasty - that conquered their neighbors (and some quite far away provinces, maybe trying to build some kind of neo-Silk Road/Belt & Road 2.0). So the Manchuria here is a pretty clear nod towards the Manchu...

Or the newly revitalized Manchu conquered the other regions - which I think is the point of the Central Asian War.

Wow okay a pretty strong position from Endie against the effort, but I'd just like to say that I'm not a fan of policing language etc. either, but I am a fan of historical accuracy and the derivative verisimilitude that flows from that to fictional worlds. The Manchu name has felt a bit like an...

The typical scenario in this trope only does away with Earth, allowing the extra-solar colonies to continue, so let's go with that. Looking at the population of the Sol system, it isn't much, but potential refugees would bolster the numbers somewhat. Looking at my notes, the Lunar Colonies are...

What do you think about utilizing the 2300 AD setting, but with the twist that Earth is destroyed in some cataclysm? The specifics of the event would of course be important, but I'm thinking of evaluating this more generally here (so it could be anything from an ecological disaster to a Kafer or...

Hmm, looking at my spreadsheet for the factions (which incorporates T4 stats and other sources), I get the following stats for the Glorious Empire: Glorious Empire 13 of systems Population (M): 5,693 GWP: 94 Available Budget: 21 Trade Surplus: 1 SDBs: 163 Starship Squadrons: 6 Defense...

I've given this some thought and I've also ran all the worlds involved through my super-excel which does (among other things) the T4 Pocket Empires calculations on them, which gives some fleet/SDB suggestions (which quite often contradict some ideas from the Drinax books - basically most of the...

This is much and so hard. I'm not sure if that's something that Mongoose has a say in (?) or not, but even if not, it'd be great to see pop up as Mongoose gets into the 5FW.

I have some notes based on my reading on this: Borderland: Arunisiir (notes say GeDeCo or API), Byrni, Ergo (formerly GeDeCo), Exe, Falcon, Inurin, Sperle, Tech World Tlaiowaha: Vorito Sindal: Dolberg, Marduk, Oghma, Palindrome, Thebus (formerly GeDeCo), Theev, Vume Dpres: 291-540 (my notes...

In fact, if I had to develop a baseline example of a noble, fief and it's workings in relations to the world government, I think it would be something like the following: For the most part, the fief follows the legal precedents of the world government. There are certain exceptions to this that...

While I agree that this is quite a sketchy area, I don't think the implications of how things work are quite as murky as people are making them out to be. Re: Titles and Land Grants. It's explicit that the ruling noble is the main authority on that piece of land - in a rather absolutist manner...