03 June 2018

What About The Smades?

Looking through my old Traveller stuff on The Solomani Rim.

Smade's Planet (Gemini subsector 0803) Solomani Rim 2433 is listed as Demeter in GT: Rim of Fire.

My OG LBB Supplement 10: The Solomani Rim says the year is 1108 with the Smade family settling there, "a century ago."
UPP: 0803 D778200 5 Non-Industrial G
Type D port, 11,200 km diameter, standard tainted atmo, 80% water, hundreds of inhabitants, no government, no law, TL5 (1900 to 1939).

OG LBB Alien Module 6: Solomani agrees with Supplement 10.
UPP: 2433 D778200-5 Lo Ni 802Im M1 V
Same as Supp 10 but adding Low population, 8x10^2 population, no asteroids, 2 gas giants, Imperial aligned, red main-sequence star.

Rim of Fire gives the year as 1120 with an advance colony being established by the Solomani in 1117, with a rumor of prior habitation.
Stats: 2433 Demeter, Solomani aligned, Green zone, Type II starport, 6,900 mile diameter, 0.82g, Standard (tainted) atmo, 79% water, Warm climate, population 810, Corporate government, CR 1, TL 9 (2025+), WTN 2.0.  Red main-sequence star, 2 gas giants, no asteroids and orbit of 0.31 AU, no moons.

It's these little changes to the GURPS Traveller universe that often trip me up and piss me off.

There was nothing wrong with Smade's World being unaligned and remote.  It's a Jump-3 to get there from any of its closest neighbors.

So I am going to say that the Smade's are still there, unnoticed due to a beacon failure, and far enough from the current colony they're also unaware of the activity at the other colony.

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