Apologies for getting the other thread a bit off the rails. For the purposes of further conversation and to correct an error in a date (not bad for of the cuff from over a decade ago at least...), here's what I wrote:
Well, here are your CoE spoilers:
1.
The Terrans in 1203 would run into a massive vampire fleet at Ganesh.
Well, "run into it" isn't exactly the correct word, they knew it was
coming and went willingly. The Priestess of the Faith Shoshanna had
seen its arrival in a psionic vision and that it was intent was to seize control of Ganesh before moving on to nuke
carpet bomb Dingir for "disloyalty to Lucan". Whether the vampire
fleet originated from the Black Curtain, or some place else was left
open--the core of it had been patrolling the Jump-1 main in the region for some time. What was certain however is that had the Terrans not intervened,
sacrificing about 20% of their warships in the process, it was unlikely that
the Dingir League would have able to stop it in time, and the League
would have effectively wiped out. Ganesh becomes a turning point in
Terran-Dingirian relations. It
also causes the Terrans to effectively stop further expansion coreward
shortly thereafter (no contact with the RC therefore for an extended
period), and instead concentrate on expansion into the Bootean Cluster
and into the Aldebaran Sector. [Note: I didn't want the Terran
interacting with the RC until GDW, or whoever took over the RC story in
the future, was ready for it, likely in 1208 game time--that was a conscious decision I made long before Frank Chadwick started toy with "Guided Lily"]
2. At
some point down the line, I envisioned the ruling families of Dingir and
Terra would unite and the Dingir League merge into the Terran
Republic. I also saw the Terran Republic evolving over a period of
decades to be more secular--indeed Shoshanna preferred to stay out of
government affairs, only intervening when she felt it was necessary (as
with Ganesh). Eventually the Priestess of the Faith be someone like the
Pope today--influential, lot of followers, but able to muster the power
of a state? Not so much. No Ayatollah, that's for sure.
3.
As stated elsewhere, I was perfectly comfortable with people concluding
that the Terrans were "bad guys", but with respect, I saw them as good,
bad, and ugly. The US in its history has been all those things. Great
Britain in its history has been all those things. So have many other nations. Mostly I sought to
create a setting that wasn't "paranoid racists in space", and all too
often the Solomani came across as just that.
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:02 PM, "" <> wrote:
Please do NOT respond to this thread unless it's really about DN. Please change the subject to what it's really about. If you want to talk about Harold's "Children of Earth" material, change the subject to that. Leaving "Since Dave N is feeling talkative" as the subject makes it more difficult to find this conversation at a later date.
Thank you.
\_/
DED
TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
Well, here are your CoE spoilers:
1.
The Terrans in 1203 would run into a massive vampire fleet at Ganesh.
Well, "run into it" isn't exactly the correct word, they knew it was
coming and went willingly. The Priestess of the Faith Shoshanna had
seen its arrival in a psionic vision and that it was intent was to seize control of Ganesh before moving on to nuke
carpet bomb Dingir for "disloyalty to Lucan". Whether the vampire
fleet originated from the Black Curtain, or some place else was left
open--the core of it had been patrolling the Jump-1 main in the region for some time. What was certain however is that had the Terrans not intervened,
sacrificing about 20% of their warships in the process, it was unlikely that
the Dingir League would have able to stop it in time, and the League
would have effectively wiped out. Ganesh becomes a turning point in
Terran-Dingirian relations. It
also causes the Terrans to effectively stop further expansion coreward
shortly thereafter (no contact with the RC therefore for an extended
period), and instead concentrate on expansion into the Bootean Cluster
and into the Aldebaran Sector. [Note: I didn't want the Terran
interacting with the RC until GDW, or whoever took over the RC story in
the future, was ready for it, likely in 1208 game time--that was a conscious decision I made long before Frank Chadwick started toy with "Guided Lily"]
2. At
some point down the line, I envisioned the ruling families of Dingir and
Terra would unite and the Dingir League merge into the Terran
Republic. I also saw the Terran Republic evolving over a period of
decades to be more secular--indeed Shoshanna preferred to stay out of
government affairs, only intervening when she felt it was necessary (as
with Ganesh). Eventually the Priestess of the Faith be someone like the
Pope today--influential, lot of followers, but able to muster the power
of a state? Not so much. No Ayatollah, that's for sure.
3.
As stated elsewhere, I was perfectly comfortable with people concluding
that the Terrans were "bad guys", but with respect, I saw them as good,
bad, and ugly. The US in its history has been all those things. Great
Britain in its history has been all those things. So have many other nations. Mostly I sought to
create a setting that wasn't "paranoid racists in space", and all too
often the Solomani came across as just that.
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:02 PM, "" <> wrote:
Please do NOT respond to this thread unless it's really about DN. Please change the subject to what it's really about. If you want to talk about Harold's "Children of Earth" material, change the subject to that. Leaving "Since Dave N is feeling talkative" as the subject makes it more difficult to find this conversation at a later date.
Thank you.
\_/
DED
TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin