Re: Dwarven Fleets (was Re: Gnomish Fighter)

In our last episode, Toby Mekelburg said:
>I'm tinkering(pardon the pun) with detailing the dwarven fleets and their
>presence in space. IMO, the dwarves and gnomes shouldn't be left out in the
>setting, as we hardly ever hear about them. I favor a more active role for
>the dwarves and gnomes and other races IMC.

	I havn't touched on gnomes too much in my campaigns, but for the
dwarves I was planning on creating the United Fleet of the Dwarven 
Confederacy (UFDC).  Each citadel is it's own governing body, with a very
loose "global" government which only deals with *big* issues, such as
war.  Not all dwarven citadels (and planets)  are part of this group.  

	The UFDC started out as a way for communicating the locations of
asteroids for the construction of citadels.  Early on, there was an attempt 
to "unify" the dwarven presence in space.  This was shortly after the
first Unhuman War, when several races with a large space presence tried to
centralize like the elves did.  The dwarves' attempt ended up not working,
and withing 50 years the modern UFDC came about.  The dwarves like it 
because it doesn't stress "universal" laws, and allows each citadel to do 
its own thing.  The Dwarven Confederacy also includes some presence on 
planets.

	Their symbol is the winged hammer.

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