The Core Expeditions Errata
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Geir
Emperor Mongoose
Figured. But Pirates of Drinax locked it in, so we might as well roll with it. Of course, assuming that everyone had a consistent grand plan when carving out bits of timeline is overstating it. Would have been more consistent to keep them at TL12, but then there wouldn't be long lost (non-Ancients) goodies out there.
What I don't get is the point of the Kursae, though I'm sure someone has something scribbled down somewhere.
Yeah, there absolutely wasn't any master plan in the early days when large chunks of Charted Space were farmed out to various 3rd parties to develop. Pretty sure the fanzine authors who developed the Trojan Reach originally had no idea there was a Great Rift between Sindal and the Rule of Man that was not crossable at J3. 
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
Sword Worlds crossed the gap with Aslan aid at no more than J3. Multi-jumps? one would think, since it's a 5 parsec route... unless the Aslan has been at TL14 for 2000 years and carried Gram on a jump tender.Yeah, there absolutely wasn't any master plan in the early days when large chunks of Charted Space were farmed out to various 3rd parties to develop. Pretty sure the fanzine authors who developed the Trojan Reach originally had no idea there was a Great Rift between Sindal and the Rule of Man that was not crossable at J3.
But in defense of Sindal, Darrians did an isolated pop up to TL16 during the Long Night, so it's not unprecedented.
Yup. Also, not errata per se, but the level of mind control/memory alteration going on seems higher than you usually get in Zhodani perspective writings. I thought we were trending towards a "better psychotherapy and alignment of interest/work because of psionics" in recent books over "we reprogram you and erase your bad thoughts".
WHULorigan
Emperor Mongoose
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
p.19: "from consul-to-consul" should be "from consul to consul".
Writers in general: if you find your fingers reaching for the - character, they almost certainly should not be.
Writers in general: if you find your fingers reaching for the - character, they almost certainly should not be.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
In specific: no text from the Zhodani perspective should ever use the term 'thought police'.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
p.21:
* "trained professionals must help remedy" is rather awkward; simply striking 'help' would be an improvement
* A 99.999% washout rate is awfully high - Zhdant and nearby systems would be awash with Nobles who can't explain to themselves where a week of their lives went (though they'd be sure it was spent in a good cause)
* "trained professionals must help remedy" is rather awkward; simply striking 'help' would be an improvement
* A 99.999% washout rate is awfully high - Zhdant and nearby systems would be awash with Nobles who can't explain to themselves where a week of their lives went (though they'd be sure it was spent in a good cause)
Theophilus
Mongoose
Erratta.Errata..
Pg 32 top of map says to subsector N sector -7/5
Fulani -7/0
Yiklerzdanzh -7/1
Zhdant -7/2
Zduedeiant -7/3
Driasera -7/4
Zhiensh -7/5
So it should be -7/6
Pg 32 top of map says to subsector N sector -7/5
Fulani -7/0
Yiklerzdanzh -7/1
Zhdant -7/2
Zduedeiant -7/3
Driasera -7/4
Zhiensh -7/5
So it should be -7/6
Peter Cohen
Mongoose
Does the stuff that people bring up in these errata generally get corrected before the books go to print?
Peter Cohen
Mongoose
Fair enough.
Not to mention that a J1 ship can merrily cross a five parsec gap in five jumps, for instance, as per Islands in the Rift.
Right. Why do we even pretend the rifts matter any more? They should be crisscrossed with well mapped routes all over the place by now, given that folks have been on both since before the long night. And acting like the J5 route for the Aslan or the J4 route through the islands for the Imperium is important seems kind of strange.
Should just treat them as minor nuisances like the Zhodani do for the rifts in this book.
Should just treat them as minor nuisances like the Zhodani do for the rifts in this book.
GabrielGABFonseca
Emperor Mongoose
They matter in an economic (mainly in a time-wise) sense. For a J-1 to cross a J-5 gap, it first needs to be able to carry an additional two J-1 fuel loads with it, and then jump to the first rift hex, drop a cache, jump back. Then it does this again, leaving 2 caches at Hex 1. Then it does this process again, but uses one of the two caches in Hex 1 to drop a cache in Hex 2. Then it sumps back to Hex 1, uses the remaining cache on Hex 1 to go back to civilisation, and...
Just because it is possible doesn't mean it is practical to do in non-special occasions. Even with higher jump numbers, this process would add weeks, possibly months to a trip.
And if you wish to cross rifts without the massive time investment, then some government or other needs to foot the bill for establishing an official rift station/cache, which will be a costly recurring expense that is only really feasible if has high enough traffic to pay for itself (like the Aslan J-5 Route stations, which are just the two and thus helps keep costs down).
So yeah, Rifts are not impassable, but they're still a royal pain in the a—...
... posterior.
