On Thursday 2004-01-29 05:46, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Trent Shipley wrote: > > Various Terragen Confederation Territories by GIM Leasehold Type > > I have just found the "missing" colonies. There's no need to place > Easter around Alpha Centauri :-) > > In _Startide Rising_, there's a reference to the _Canaan Colonies_ > that can be defended by the Tymbrimi. Maybe these are the colonies > [notice the plural!] around Alpha Centauri. The plural suggests that > there could be two [or three] of them, around desolate worlds in > that system.
Yes we could, if I hadn't already taken the time to write up Easter. There was also mention in GU1 of the Cygnus Colonies. I had always assumed that both the Canaan and Cygnus colonies were unspecified subsets of the colonies already listed. Also, you will recall that the problem wasn't that we couldn't come up with 10 major colonies. We had a perfect count. 1-Atlast: 2-Calafia: 3-Deemi: 4-Dezni: 5-Garth: 6-Horst: 7-Mars: 8-Omnivarium: 9-NuDawn (Mudaun in Gal-7): 10-Venus: The problem was that we wanted 10 major *leases*, and only had 9. 1-Atlast: 2-Calafia: 3-Deemi: 4-Dezni: 5-Earth: 6-Garth: 7-Horst: 8-Omnivarium: 9-NuDawn (Mudaun in Gal-7): By adding desolate worlds and arbitarilly declaring them to be the Canaan Colonies we fail to solve the problem of producing a major lease. We add so many colonies it is hard to reconcile the fan-fic with the source. Worse, we may tread on DB's toes if he wanted (as I believe) the Canaan Colonies to consist of some sub-set of the 9 cannonical leashold worlds. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
