mike wightman
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A couple of recent threads, Marc's Agent of the Imperium novel, and T5 have me re-appraising how I am going to present the Imperium as the background off stage empire.
First, the Spinward Marches have only been settled by the Imperium for 600 years, there were land grabs by Imperial citizens prior to this but the Imperium proper didn't move into the Marches until 497.
This allows me to to present the Marches as a frontier.
Imperial ex-service personnel tend to be augmented - wafer jacks, bio-augmented physical stats, drug glands
ex-Marches personnel lack these
biological synthetics and "lobotomised" clone families are regularly seen on Imperial worlds, they are often owned by megacorporations and nobles and are treated as slaves.
I am shrinking the Marches down to only four subsectors, relocating every world I have a rumour/adventure seed for to these four subsectors. Civilian star charts only exist for Imperial territory.
My daughter and her boyfriend are starting their adventures (with Death Station) this weekend.
edit - forgot this bit. Everyone gets a DeePA - a digital personal assistant - think ChatGPT+Siri/Cortana/Alexa. Augmented reality via glasses or contact lens, VR with metaverse via headsets and haptic body suits as options.
First, the Spinward Marches have only been settled by the Imperium for 600 years, there were land grabs by Imperial citizens prior to this but the Imperium proper didn't move into the Marches until 497.
This allows me to to present the Marches as a frontier.
Imperial ex-service personnel tend to be augmented - wafer jacks, bio-augmented physical stats, drug glands
ex-Marches personnel lack these
biological synthetics and "lobotomised" clone families are regularly seen on Imperial worlds, they are often owned by megacorporations and nobles and are treated as slaves.
I am shrinking the Marches down to only four subsectors, relocating every world I have a rumour/adventure seed for to these four subsectors. Civilian star charts only exist for Imperial territory.
My daughter and her boyfriend are starting their adventures (with Death Station) this weekend.
edit - forgot this bit. Everyone gets a DeePA - a digital personal assistant - think ChatGPT+Siri/Cortana/Alexa. Augmented reality via glasses or contact lens, VR with metaverse via headsets and haptic body suits as options.
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