[TML] UWP & Enclaves Question

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 10/5/07 5:45 AM, "Garry Ward" wrote:

> hmm, don't think the original idea behind the UWP considered that situation.
> 
> My inclination would be the UWP reflects the majority conditions on the
> world, in which case the TL would be 2.
> 
> Especially given the low human populations.
> 
> Unless, of course, the humans were ruling over the TL2 natives as
> conquerors, using their TL advantage to maintain control, then the UWP would
> reflect the human TL and the Law Level and Government type would reflect the
> conquest.

Actually, canon *does* cover this sort of situation.  The UWP represents
whatever government the Scout who surveyed the system decided it
represented.  Thus a UWP may show a population code 5, because that's who
the Scout contacted/observed, while there is a whole different, bigger
population that he didn't know about.  Or the UWP can represent the state
that the Imperium "recognizes" (China vs Taiwan), even if that is vastly
different from the bulk of the worlds population.  Plus, pop codes are often
what the locals *report* it is.  Scouts can't do their own actual census,
it's not practical.  Anybody remember reading about slaves counting as 2/3
of a person in early US history?

The variations are limited only by GM imagination.  All social aspects of
the UWP are necessarily vague in this manner.  Ultimately, it is *too*
boiled down to represent reality very well (yes, I mean "TU game reality",
not real world reality).