Re: [Traveller_TNE] RE: Banners

Ok. The TNE Collapse Procedure is Human-centric. For gov't codes that lie outside of the A-F range, it doesn't really work. You've gone from using Aslan gov't codes to TNE Wilds codes. IMO, true Aslan aren't going to abandon the clan loyalty system (barbarians could) that they've had forever just because of Virus (I came up with an alternate system for re-rolling Aslan gov't codes in the Wilds). I suppose one can argue that maybe Virus is the very thing that causes Aslan to abandon the clan loyalty system for human style gov'ts (though from 1248 it survives for at least some of the population). After all, what are the motivations, besides land, that would cause an Aslan to become a barbarian?

On page 34 of AM1, we get "In human terms, all Aslan worlds have a feudal form of government. Thus, one of several normal governmental codes might be assigned by humans to various Aslan planets (0, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B and C are all applicable), and these codes might be found in a human catalog of world types (Kusyu, the Aslan homeworld, is often assigned a government type 8 in the fashion)."

Notice that there's no democracies or religion-based gov'ts. So if you use the standard TNE Collapse procedure, you're going to have to re-roll any time you get one of these two. Is it possible for Aslan to "get religion" or "go along with the herd" when their choice for leader doesn't get elected? Or are there things so embedded in Aslan culture that nothing in the universe will change them?

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DED

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When you collapsed the sector, did you assume that all of the Aslan worlds were "barbarians"?

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DED

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No indeed. I treated the few Hierate colony worlds and the Woal Warliyir as "civilised" but the Aoiftu Roakh I treated as a culture considered "barbarian" by the Hierate culture. (Wealth ended up being the measure of success not land and the two sexes had become more equal and did jobs that the Hierate would consider inappropriate) ie males doing female jobs and vice versa.

Antony