Candidate Worlds for Genocide/Xenocide in Sindal Empire

[tzunder]

I need to have some worlds in the old SINDAL Empire as candidates for utter annihilation through WMDs during the dying days of the Empire.
Before I start crawling, has anyone got any good candidates? It needs to have been in the past of PoD, I think it's -1441 when Old Sindal fell.
Sindalian Empire - Traveller (travellerrpg.com)

 

[Arcanum]

For worlds who are very populous and rich at the Sindalian period you have Thebus and Noricum, the capital, who are quite annihilated. It remains only 8000 people in the Industrial and Urban Thebus.

 

[tzunder]

Plus they are pretty big ticket names.. I think that's a good idea.
Now people need to cope with a 2500 year old war criminal turning up.. but that's kind of the point.

 

[Anstett]

Such as?

Traveller Fiction - Night of the Dragon by David Guymer

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[tzunder]

Such as?

Traveller Fiction - Night of the Dragon by David Guymer

A brand new Traveller story has just been released, Night of the Dragon by David Guymer. You can find it right here: https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/night-of-the-dragon When the crew of the Rake discover a centuries-old Drinaxian warship drifting across the outskirts of the...

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Oh heck

 

[Anstett]

Oh heck

No spoilers but that (and the previous Sindalian Sunset book) might help.

 

[G'Naakbusters]

There's this sentence: "More ominously, blast craters on Ace, mass graves on Thebus, and plagues on Lacidaeus bear testament to the vanished Empire."

 

[Arcanum]

There's this sentence: "More ominously, blast craters on Ace, mass graves on Thebus, and plagues on Lacidaeus bear testament to the vanished Empire."

Yes and in the drinaxian companion (Lions of Thebus) we learn that Thebus was once a very important world of the Drinaxian empire, blasted with nuclear weapons, biochemical weapons and asteroids. In Marooned on Marduk we discovered the cities blasted by nuclear weapons too. But the population of Marduk seem to have survived better, because they are much more numerous with islands tribes and continental survivors. In Thebus we have only one remaining settlement of 8000 people. The devastation must have been cataclysmic. So Thebus seem the best choice.
We have other examples of sindalians atrocities, with Ace, Lacidaeus, but also Clarke. The devastation of Clarke have shaped the local psyche and was the origin of the psychopomps cult. But Clarke too survived better than poor Thebus.

 

[tzunder]

Thanks. I shall go with Noricum, it's just right. I did buy and read the story and have reviewed it elsewhere on the forum. I am essentially porting the "Deathwalker" story from Babylon 5, and it's all going to be fun.