MonsterX
Emperor Mongoose
Everything is its own thing; analogies are always inexact, but it is a way of explaining. If you want to draw a straight, explicit, line to Space Vikings, then of course it has to be Sword Worlders.
Aslan invasions of Domain of Deneb.
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Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Danes.
There's an inherent instability in Vikings, as they tend to bite and hold when they do try a land grab.
Usually, they need to integrate with the conquered populace, in order to make it take.
There's an inherent instability in Vikings, as they tend to bite and hold when they do try a land grab.
Usually, they need to integrate with the conquered populace, in order to make it take.
collins355
Cosmic Mongoose
Have gamed out the Vargr incursion into Corridor during the Rebellion era using T4/Imperial Squadrons+Pocket Empires (i.e. tweaked Fifth Frontier War boardgame rules with added crunch). It is a lot more doable than I imagine the Aslan incursions to be. Of course, the key point is that Imperial Corridor Fleet has departed for Core, so only local forces remain on the Imperial side.
I haven't gamed out the Aslan incursion. For starters, it is hard to know what sort of counter to give an Ihatei fleet.
I haven't gamed out the Aslan incursion. For starters, it is hard to know what sort of counter to give an Ihatei fleet.
There’s some wild stuff in the Great Rift box set, with the Imperium struggling to expel Ihatei from further Rimward than Ambossa in Vestus.
Why these Ihatei ploughed past almost-empty, shirtsleeves environments like Sink and Fantasy, Inurin and Cordan and decided to claim land a dozen parsecs into the Imperium just next to a critical, cross-Rift strategic asset of the Imperium is left as an exercise for the reader.
Why these Ihatei ploughed past almost-empty, shirtsleeves environments like Sink and Fantasy, Inurin and Cordan and decided to claim land a dozen parsecs into the Imperium just next to a critical, cross-Rift strategic asset of the Imperium is left as an exercise for the reader.
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MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
They didn't. Check the Travellermap for the Borderlands area and switch the Travellermap to the 1120 timeframe. It shows that all of those shirt-sleeve environments did not get bypassed by the Aslan.
Also remember, the Ihatei have no cohesive leadership. They are basically a horde, like a tidal wave flooding a beach. The water flows in and everything is washed under except a few high points (Fortress Worlds or Naval Bases that didn't fall). Those highpoints don't stop the water flowing in, the water just flows around it and floods things behind the highpoints. If you look at the Ihatei invasion, that is basically what happens. Some places held, but the force of ihatei just flows past them to other worlds.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Remember, there are two Corridor Fleets. Corridor is a double strength sector, or it was at the start of the FFW.
That is because there really is no such thing as an "average ihatei ship" or average ihatei squadron. They are a mess of different ships, most of them not specifically designed for combat. Most Aslan vessels are dual use commercial/military.
No, this isn’t about the civil war. The Great Rift book claims that the Imperium is struggling to expel these Ihatei in 1105. It makes no sense on several levels.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
In 1105? That I did not know. Now I have to go learn more stuff. Thank you.
It’s in the Reft sector book, page ten in my copy.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Sounds to me like those are the dregs of the Ihatei. One small ACS of Aslan. Maybe 30 in total. Unsupported by Clan or Aslan corp except for the ship which likely does not belong to the Ihatei, but to their clans or corps affiliated with their clans. Easily put down by small 1,000-ton or less Imperial or Colonial patrol craft. Nothing like you read about in PoD on Kteiroa, especially the millions of those who lost their planet in the recent clan war and will be searching for new lands with the full forces of their remaining military vessels. Take a look in PoD, what happens if the PCs fail in their quest on Kteiroa.
On that same page 10 in the Reft book that the Subsector Fleet only has 2 main ships, 1 light cruiser and 1 obsolete strike carrier, both cruiser-class vessels. That, plus some patrol craft and it is easy to see how millions of Ihatei could easily overrun this subsector during the Rebellion Era.
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Enaknomolos
Banded Mongoose
In the Rebellion Sourcebook its clear that the entire 'overstrength' Corridor Fleet is withdrawn by Lucan..
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Traditionally, you pay off one tribe of invaders, to fight another tribe of invaders.
I’m less worried about their strength, and more baffled by why they would fly past at least six habitable worlds with populations of less than Code 8 in the rimward Drinaxian chain and the Borderland subsector before ploughing on a full subsector plus change into Imperium space before deciding that here, where the Imperium’s vital Islands link to Trailing begins, is where they will finally try to settle.
Edit: remember that in 1105/6 the Akaoft war is probably decided but still not lost. Aslan clans cannot intervene but wise Travellers playing through Ihatei! will head right there and pillage a convoy or two, give a batch of FGMP-15s away or maybe use stealth and advanced sensors to locate the other side’s base and sway the battle.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
I am guessing that they are not wanting to settle closer for fear that once they are established, other aslan will come and take it from them.
It says what happens if the PCs do not intervene, so it does happen unless someone changes the story. That is what I love about Charted Space. Things happen even if the PCs are not involved. Things keep happening in the Trojan Reach, even if the PCs never leave Gateway Sector.
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