Ah, there we are. That was some of the "wheels within wheels" that I was
trying to remember referenced in my previous post.
Thanks for laying that out, Mike.
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:19:36 -0500, "Mike West" <>
wrote:
> Also, one thing I forgot to mention: It was really MT that messed with
> the Aslan history. Really, the Regency Sourcebook tried to remove a
> lot of the silliness, but they still had to leave what was written
> alone.
>
> So, in the Regency Sourcebook, the Regency had reclaimed all of their
> territory "taken" by the Aslan. (So, for example, the Domain holdings
> in the Trojan Reach were Regency holdings.) They also retconned
> the penetration of the Aslan back by at least a subsector. (MT had
> the Aslan knocking on the door of Glisten. TNE pushed them back
> outside the Spinward Marches.)
>
> The Aslan in the Regency Sourcebook were bottled up. They had lost
> all of their ancestral homelands, and had completely lost the entire
> J5 route across the Rift. All they had left were their spinward
> holdings
> in the Trojan Reach and Beyond. They also had little area to try and
> expand. They were beholden to the Regency for their protection from
> Virus, but resented it and resented the limitations the Regency had
> placed on them (like no going back across the Rift). So, it was a very
> tense situation. It was a powderkeg waiting for a match. (Which, of
> course, was left to happen after 1202.)
>
> In addition to that dynamic, there were also millions (probably
> billions)
> of Aslan left in reclaimed Regency territory. These Aslan were allowed
> to stay as long as they toed the Regency line. This, of course, pissed
> off the other occupants on those worlds who felt that the Regency
> was giving a free pass to their "invaders" and occupiers.
>
> Also, the Regency was trying to apply the lessons learned by the
> Darrians in how to coopt the Aslan. They would hire willing Aslan to
> the defense force (forgot the name) with the promises of land in
> the Regency (and, presumably, the buffer zone). This was done
> hoping that they could "domesticate" (my word, not Dave's) the Aslan
> into proper Regency citizens, like the Darrians had done to the Aslan
> that had settled in the Darrian Confederation.
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> Mike West
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