Archive for 2026 week 15
- More Zhdez economic research - 06 Apr 2026
- Unstarships - 07 Apr 2026
- Apa/Apu - 08 Apr 2026
- Grandry? - 09 Apr 2026
- Shingie? - 10 Apr 2026
- Too much meddling? - 11 Apr 2026
- Too many changes? - 12 Apr 2026
Back in the day, I did a lot of reading up on ways to improve our rather impoverished neighborhood (in a previous state). I dived deep into time banks and local scrip and Community Exchange and everything.
In Traveller, x-boats (express boats) are 100-ton ships with J-6, and they manage to pull that off by bending the ship construction rules a little. The powerplant is hand-waved away by saying power is part of the jump drive, and there's no maneuver drive: they depend on tenders to refuel them and just never move in realspace.
Filling in bits around Core Sector and realized I named the link Apa Kudi while apparently the text is all Apu Kudi, whoops. Apa it is, since otherwise I have to move the whole page.
While transferring things to the wiki, I realized I have almost nothing about Grandry in the blog. Literally just a mention that it's between Capital (J-1) and Shingie (J-2) and that Kudi resorts are staffed by temporary workers from Grandry and that's it, so... what is Grandry like?
I'm going to back Shingie off to "first J-2 colony" because although the Ancients were handholding a lot, I don't think they were taxiing humans to distant planets that much. So Grandry might be one of the actual first colonies, and just high-population.
Maybe I need to dial back the Ancients/Precursors' interference, I dunno. Is it gonna make the humans feel too much like they don't have any free will? Because if they can't identify the meddling, they kind of... don't have any.
Rereading the past entries, I realized I want the setting to be "amidst the upheaval of a societal change" but I have actually put forth possibly too many reasons for that change.