Darrians News

[Cyphr]

Some great Darrian News

S&P 82 has a very nice Darrian preview. It has the racial attributes and family background for Darrians including some new items that I've never seen before for everyone's favorite space elves.

 

[rinku]

When did Darrians become blue skinned? "Golden or greyish tan" was the line from the original Alien Module.

Space Elves, though? Yeah, that was always there.

I think that Vargr=Orcs is a BIT of a stretch, though. If anyone has the role of dangerous barbarians at the gate, it's the Aslan, but the comparison falls over once you look past that aspect.

 

[tneva82]

When did Darrians become blue skinned? "Golden or greyish tan" was the line from the original Alien Module.

Where does it say they would be blue skinned? Text from preview: "and possess white or light toned hair combined with slightly reflective, gold coloured skin".

Pictures in preview are also black&white so kinda hard to determine skin colour from there

 

[SSWarlock]

[Looks over his shoulder and leans in to the poster]
My sources say the SA have remedied the faulty Star Trigger. The real question is there an updated Star Trigger 2.0? :wink:

2.0? You mean..the Star Trigger was developed by Microsoft!?!

No wonder the Maghiz was caused by an undiscovered bug!

 

[Cyphr]

[Looks over his shoulder and leans in to the poster]
My sources say the SA have remedied the faulty Star Trigger. The real question is there an updated Star Trigger 2.0? :wink:

2.0? You mean..the Star Trigger was developed by Microsoft!?!

No wonder the Maghiz was caused by an undiscovered bug!

Actually the updated Star Trigger runs Android 2.0 with voice command. :shock:

"Flare <insert star name> " I think is the phrase. Rumors has it there's a remote access widget or app so you can easily flare a star from your smartphone. :shock: :wink:

 

[kristof65]

LMAO!

Not too mention that the iCommunicator was calculating his signal strength incorrectly in the first place.

 

[Cyphr]

The rumors I heard is that it could have been prevented. But when the Darrian in Charge used his iCommunicator the antenna was partially blocked by his ear and he could not get contact

Considering they have those pointy ears, no wonder! :lol: :wink:

 

[alex_greene]

No, the real real truth about the Darrians is that they have a Warehouse 13.

And that blew up when they tried to play a Barry Manilow record backwards.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

That'll teach them... dancing 'round a mushroom!!!

 

[AndrewW]

No, the real real truth about the Darrians is that they have a Warehouse 13.

And that blew up when they tried to play a Barry Manilow record backwards.

Which caused a pulse wave, setting off the ancient death ray in their Area 51 which fired directly into the sun.

Shouldn't that be they HAD a Warehouse 13¿

 

[Egil Skallagrimsson]

But Vagr fit the DnD orcs nicely

+ Raiders
+ Danger to border regions
+ Rarely if ever abel to overcome the strongholds
+ Uncontrolled/wild fighters

Well, unfortunately one of my Vargr colleagues saw this and he is not happy by such monkey-centric non-sense. He points out that Vargr society represents the highest expression of liberty in the universe, that the Vargr are the chosen people of the Ancients, that so called raids are simply competitive sports (and the monkey folk should stop being so protective about mere possesions and get a life), as to not being able to overcome strongholds etc don't believe Imperial claims to be able to protect every the frontier (they only say that to scare you into paying your taxes), look at the Julian Wars and later conflicts, when Vargr take a stronghold it is done with enthusiasm and style, otherwise whats the point? As for wild and uncontrolled, surely you mean well motivated, aggressive and frightningly competent.

Anyway, wern't orcs somekind of distorted elf? Any Spinward Marches orcs are likely to be psycho elves on Torment. Probably have pointy ears. May even be blue.

Egil

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

Orcs are devolved Space Smurfs?

 

[Egil Skallagrimsson]

Explains the dress sense and the evil grins

 

[AndrewW]

Anyway, wern't orcs somekind of distorted elf?

Well, the Tolkien orcs where.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

I believe the original orc (possibly ork), was a Cornish sea monster... and there was only the one.

I can't check the above (books in transit), but I think that's right.

 

[rust]

I believe the original orc (possibly ork), was a Cornish sea monster... and there was only the one.

"Orc" seems to have a lot of different meanings in different old langua-
ges. In a "latin tradition" from Plinius to Ariost it is a sea creature, which
is why the Latin name of the killer whale is "orca", in several dialects of
the Alps an "ork" is a mountain spirit, and in Goidelic an "orc" is a pig.
Tolkien thought that it was an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "demon",
because this is how he interpreted the use of "orc" in the Beowulf.

(No, I did not know that, I had of course to look it up.)

 

[Cleon the Mad]

So..knowing that the reply right now might be "when it's ready", any ETA on when this book might be out? I have to admit that this is one I've been looking forward to for a while.

 

[Ector]

The connection is actually rather easy to make and hard to ignore

+ They have the looks (Ears, Skin)

+ They have the behaviour (Peaceful Hippies unless attacked)

+ They have this "choosen" element (Settled in a near-perfect startup etc)

+ They fill the last remaining slot (Genoee = Dwarfs, Vagr=Orks)

I really hate such "analogies", since they can destroy the game. People who want elves, dwarfs and orks should play appropriate settings.
Darrians aren't elves: they aren't peaceful and constantly fight with Sword Worlds.
Geonee aren't dwarfs: they aren't natural at all. If dwarfs were the Humans genetically changed by the other Humans, they would hate normal Humans.
And, for God's sake, don't mix Vargrs with Orks! They are a major race, and they aren't as simple as Orks. They are Chaotic, right, but they aren't Chaotic Evil, and they can be very proud and honorable.

 

[Cleon the Mad]

The connection is actually rather easy to make and hard to ignore

+ They have the looks (Ears, Skin)

+ They have the behaviour (Peaceful Hippies unless attacked)

+ They have this "choosen" element (Settled in a near-perfect startup etc)

+ They fill the last remaining slot (Genoee = Dwarfs, Vagr=Orks)

I really hate such "analogies", since they can destroy the game. People who want elves, dwarfs and orks should play appropriate settings.
Darrians aren't elves: they aren't peaceful and constantly fight with Sword Worlds.
Geonee aren't dwarfs: they aren't natural at all. If dwarfs were the Humans genetically changed by the other Humans, they would hate normal Humans.
And, for God's sake, don't mix Vargrs with Orks! They are a major race, and they aren't as simple as Orks. They are Chaotic, right, but they aren't Chaotic Evil, and they can be very proud and honorable.

I agree with you otherwise, but the Genoee weren't changed by other humans, they were picked up by the Ancients from Terra just like the Darrians and most of the other minor human races. So, their changes if it is genetic manipulation was done by the Ancients, and it could be all just natural selection/evolution from being on a different planet then Terra for 300,000 years. (I forget if they were modified or not by the Ancients, or if that has ever been published). In fact, other then being short and squat the Geonee's major trope if you will is that they actually THINK they are the ancients since they did find a functioning Ancient (note capital "A") jump drive on their own homeworld, reverse engineered it but assumed it was made by an earlier civilization of their own people.

If I may, a short blurb from the Traveller Wiki:

"Geonee: The Geonee claim to be a Major Race as they also developed the Jump Drive. Vilani research during the First Imperium showed the Genoee had reverse engineered the Jump Drive from an Ancient archological site on their home world."


URL for the article too:

http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Major_Race

Anyway, yes I agree that while Darrians may superficially look like Elves, any tropes they have that they share with elves are mostly coincedence. Likewise for Genoee and Dwarves, etc.

Oh and to answer my other post from a while back, looks like August now. Based on another post in this forum.

 

[rust]

Btw: Are the doggies really a major race(developed J-Drive on their own?)

All sources I have from various Traveller versions do indeed list the Vargr
as a major race.