Recent content by randymcdonald

Reading Behind the Claw just now, there's a short passage in the history section suggesting that the Vilani did know about the Zhodani and feared their psionics. This does run somewhat contrary to Interstellar Wars' suggestion that neither Vilani nor Terrans had any idea that psionics existed...

No. Humaniti states that many of the generation hips belonging to the Luriani's Wurlana subculture travelled far from Ley sector, two making it to Zhodani space around -4100. The Loeskalth are another example of a culture from Vilani space that fled in the general direction of the Zhodani. It...

The Luriani caravans made it to Zhodani space two millennia before the Interstellar Wars. Presumably the Zhodani learned from the Luriani their reasons for fleeing their homespace, so the Zhodani would have acquired knowledge of the Vilani early on. Would the Vilani necessarily have been so well...

Were there any historic Zhodani-Vilani contacts in the era of the Ziru Sirka? The classic Vargr adventure, that contact with the Zhodani or the Vilani were equally likely for anyone in the spaces between the two human empires. (The giveaway was that the Zhodani used psionics and possessed...

What the subject line says. As far as I can tell as a lurker, there are at least two major producers of new, canonical Traveller material: GURPS, in its no-Dulinor ATU; and Mongoose, with its pre-5FW setting. Are efforts being made to make sure that they remain in continuity, or are they...

I've a non-canon write up on the Sung at the 2300AD Collective. https://sites.google.com/site/2300adcollective2/contact-us/the-sung I assumed, inspire by Robert Forward's writings, that the Sung made use of laser arrays to propel their solar sails. That would have given them reasonable transit...