Re: Renaming the Unhuman Wars

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> I don't think that true spacefaring organisations would be interested in
> obtaining land. I think they would desire to take control of wildspace.
> They
> do need access to landing sites and they do need access to repair
> facilities, but I think they could get hold of those by doing deals with
> existing groundling kingdoms.
> 
> I could be sold on Known Space having several more groundling worlds,
> where
> small countries (which are unimportant in world affairs) are major
> spelljamming ports (as far as spacefarers are concerned).

[Ben Wafer] That makes a certain sense, and that would probably be the
general rule for most sj organizations, but at the same time, I see some of
them deciding that they need an extensive groundling colony here and there.
In particular I see the Shou Lung and the IEN following this model. The Shou
are ultimately a groundling culture that has become relatively successful in
space, and I see them setting up colonies to grow cash crops, mine rare
minerals, and otherwise produce valuable resources to be shipped back to the
homeland for the Emperor's profit (at the expense of most of the colonists).
The IEN, on the other hand, strikes me as an organization that wouldn't want
to be forced to rely on deals with groundling nations to support them, so
they'd create colonies on likely worlds in order to support the spacefaring
elves.
> That makes sense. If we finalise the positions of the crystal spheres
> within
> Known Space, we could use the positions of the spheres to spread the
> battles
> over that centaury and help make Known Space seem more three dimensional.
> Fleets need to travel down Phlogiston Rivers, so we could infer an order
> for
> defeats and victories, from the relative positions of the spheres.

[Ben Wafer] I'd love to see us work out the course of the war within the
known spheres!

> Don't forget the Elven Exiles. They broke off from the fleet and went
> their
> own way. Beyond the Moons has one branch of exiles written up as the
> Confederate Navy, but I'm not 100 percent sure I like that name (as it
> reminds me too much of the Deep South). I think that exiles should have
> small single sphere fleets with out of date ships like the Archaic
> Man-O-War.

[Ben Wafer] I like this concept. Is it fan-created? I don't recall ever
seeing it in a published sj product. It could be a fun thing to do with a
couple of spheres outside of the known spheres.

> I would argue that specific kingdoms (or planets) of humans would have
> done
> better than other groups of humans. I think that the Unhuman War makes a
> great opportunity for certain groups of humans to show their quality to
> the
> elves.
> 
> I would love for the Shou Lung Dragonship Fleet to be fighting alongside
> the
> elves in Realmspace at some point in the war. I would also love for some
> of
> the organisations without exact starting dates to originate before or
> during
> that war. The Company of the Chalice *must* be an organisation that the
> elves would have respected. I would love to see The Company have a history
> comparable to the real-life Eagle Squadrons (of WWII).

[Ben Wafer] Agreed on all counts. I would like to see the Company of the
Chalice be a group that arose during the first unhuman war. Maybe the POTs
too, for that matter.
 

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