Yanks in Space...
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CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
"Apart from all that, what have the Zhodani ever done for us?"
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
If you've bought this book, you failed the first step...
(Or, this is why PhD stands for Piled Higher and Deeper)
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
The book's free.
The seminar is not.
The seminar is not.
Yenaldlooshi
Cosmic Mongoose
Well... without "Yanks in Space" you might end up with something like...
“Hello, Swindon, I am here. “Swindon, can you hear me?” “Swindon here. We’re monitoring you on our instruments. “We’ve got you on a tuba.” (Eddie Izzard)
“Hello, Swindon, I am here. “Swindon, can you hear me?” “Swindon here. We’re monitoring you on our instruments. “We’ve got you on a tuba.” (Eddie Izzard)
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
actionman
Cosmic Mongoose
actionman
Cosmic Mongoose
IMO, it doesn't bear discussion. It's a decades old notion from a portion of UK players, and probably other English-speaking non-American players too.
When I came in contact with that statement many years ago, it was a complaint about how the setting was the far future of thousands of worlds and cultures, but everyone pretty much acted like 1980's Americans. I have the same complaint.
I don't know how the discussions you've seen have played out, but Yank is generally a mild term.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
Yeah, when Commonwealthers want to be offensive they start from 'Seppo' and work down.
Yenaldlooshi
Cosmic Mongoose
Y'all just jealous because the Solomani trace their lineage directly back to specifically America because we were known as the protectors of all the freedom back in the 20th-22nd centuries!
ottarrus
Emperor Mongoose
Folks, we're kinda grinding gears on a non-issue here.
The Imperium portrayed at your table isn't gonna be the Imperium portrayed at mine. At the end of the day every single aspect of the Third Imperium is a referee MacGuffin to throw at PCs... they have to spend this much on that item/license/tax or fee because it's 'Imperial Law', their ship got searched by an Imperial Navy destroyer, the PCs got hassled by an Imperial IMOJ marshal at the starport... none of this is random. It's all put there by the referee ON PURPOSE. Even if the incident is rolled on an encounter table, it happens because the referee allows it to.
You can play the Imperium as Reagan-era America, or the British Raj, or Sengoku Japan, or make the Emperor one of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzies or the WH40K carcass with a crown. The Imperium is what YOU make it at YOUR table.
The Imperium portrayed at your table isn't gonna be the Imperium portrayed at mine. At the end of the day every single aspect of the Third Imperium is a referee MacGuffin to throw at PCs... they have to spend this much on that item/license/tax or fee because it's 'Imperial Law', their ship got searched by an Imperial Navy destroyer, the PCs got hassled by an Imperial IMOJ marshal at the starport... none of this is random. It's all put there by the referee ON PURPOSE. Even if the incident is rolled on an encounter table, it happens because the referee allows it to.
You can play the Imperium as Reagan-era America, or the British Raj, or Sengoku Japan, or make the Emperor one of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzies or the WH40K carcass with a crown. The Imperium is what YOU make it at YOUR table.
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Yenaldlooshi
Cosmic Mongoose
Indeed, except that the Imperium at my table... well.... that's the correct one. Free from star to shining star. Humaniti helping out those Bwaps and Vegans.
I call it "The Human's Burden"
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
The majority of the diaspora of Terrans were not from the USA - in point of fact the majority of the Solomani who won the Intersteller Wars and went off into the Ziru Sirka were not born on Earth.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
If Eve is the mother of humanity, it would be ironic if it turns out that Musk is the father of Mankind.
Yenaldlooshi
Cosmic Mongoose
Fake News! You obviously are buying into that Vilani-conspiracy crap. Don't you know all those historians are paid for using grants funded by Vilani hush money! That's why they all tell us that it was the Vilani that first invented J-Drives when we know it must have been Solomani. AMERICAN Solomani in point of fact. They discovered the J-Drive in 1980 out at a place called Groom Lake in Nevada.
So next time you are looking at the Imperium in Traveller, instead of saying "Yanks in Space" you should instead say "Yanks in Space, Thank God" or "Thank Ronnie" if you prefer.
Yenaldlooshi
Cosmic Mongoose
There's also a good documentary about those times and all this called "Independence Day". Came out in the 90's. It's about one of the many times Americans saved the world then later charted space. Good watch!
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
Ahh, the Vegan conspiracy...Fake News! You obviously are buying into that Vilani-conspiracy crap. Don't you know all those historians are paid for using grants funded by Vilani hush money! That's why they all tell us that it was the Vilani that first invented J-Drives when we know it must have been Solomani. AMERICAN Solomani in point of fact. They discovered the J-Drive in 1980 out at a place called Groom Lake in Nevada.
So next time you are looking at the Imperium in Traveller, instead of saying "Yanks in Space" you should instead say "Yanks in Space, Thank God" or "Thank Ronnie" if you prefer.
MaxTac Transfer
Banded Mongoose
Be a Smarty - Join the Solomani Party (To loosely quote Mel Brooks)
Yenaldlooshi
Cosmic Mongoose
Groom Lake also perfected time travel and they went back about 400,000 years. Thus American Solomani became the REAL Ancients. The only mistake they made was uplifting the Droyne who managed to take all the credit. The figure they called "Grandfather" was really one of those original American Chrononauts whose real name was Samuel Wilson who when he retired dropped himself off in 1812 on Terra and became a meat packer in Troy, New York... yup you see where this is going... Samuel Wilson? "Uncle Sam"? Right? Grandfather was really Uncle Sam!! You're welcome!
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