Re: Imperium/Full Thrust campaign
From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@n...>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:38:13 +0100
Subject: Re: Imperium/Full Thrust campaign
Jeff Lyon wrote:
> >Imperium doesn't use the Traveller background AFAIK - at least
> >none of the Traveller versions I've seen have mentioned the Earth-
> >Vilani war in the early Human space-faring era. 'Course, I haven't
> >read that much of the background material.
>
> Imperium begat Traveller and was then incorporated into the "deep
> background" type stuff. Because of this, it's a little touchy to try
> inferring backward, since they hadn't fully worked out the details of
their
> technology and such.
OK.
> Actually, the name "Vilani" never appears in Imperium. In the game,
the
> Imperium is always referred to as just that; The Imperium.
It does in the Swedish edition (c) 1977... that's why I knew the name
"Vilani".
Regards,
Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com
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