[TML] Narn in Traveller (was Trivia)

[DAve Shillito]

On 8/15/07, Joshua Stockwell <joshua.stockwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/15/07, alan hume <threeeyesmcgurk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > True, true
> > but I thinkt he Narn version takes your face off or somesuch:.)
> > will have to check the Mongoose sourcebook again
>
>
> I'm just busting your chops. I dont' see why you can't have Narn if you want
> them. Sure it isn't canonical, but there have always been other "minor"
> races in Traveller besides the "major" canonical races. The major races are
> major because they have multiple settled worlds. Maybe the Traveller Narn
> race only have their own home planet Narn that falls within or on the border
> of one of the other spacefaring empires?

<pedant mode>
Just to be 'correct' - In canon a major race is one that developed
jump drive independently.
Minor races could have an empire using technology they obtained from elsewhere.
</pedant mode>

IIRC this actually fits with the B5 universe quite well - as Narn
obtained their space technology from the Centari.

So pick a border with a human empire (the major race) and create a
"Narn'ish" minor race they could have subjugated, who rebelled and
created their own empire (probably less than a subsectors worth), and
you have the basics.

If the major race were the Solomani's maybe the "Narnies" allied with
the Imp marines in a border dispute.

Now... ensure one of the other players is a Solie and watch the fun start ;)

DAve