I was looking at some things in star Frontiers the other day, (doing research as always) and I began to see a few things that make me believe that TSR was using US history as its basis for the history of the Frontier. Now some of you might be a little sensitive to some of my thinking so I apologize in advance.<br /><br />First off lets look at what was said about Pan Galactic Corporation...Pan Gal was to the Frontier much like the railroads of the 1800, basically the only game in town for the many colonies (or in our history towns) to get the things they need. Then in the early 1900 we had world War one, which was a major factor in what is now nown as the industrial revolution. This coralates to Sathar war one, and the rise of the other mega-corps coming about as a result of Sathar war I.<br /><br />Then we have the great influenza pandemic which swept through the US, much in the way the Blue Plague swept through the Frontier, which leads us to Sathar War II.....We have the Sathar representing the Axis powers to the point that they gathered up groups of people and sent them to labor (read concentration camps) to build war materials (well I guess TSR didn't want to say that the Sathar were exterminating a group of people but if we cast the sathar in that light than that's what we can infer from this), Oh and as a result of Sathar War two we develop landfleet and a strengthened UPF, could just as easilly corelate to the whole league of nations giving rise to the United Nations organization.<br /><br />And finally we have the Red scare of the 50's, which could easily explain the fear of Sathar (read Communist) agents infiltrating the US.<br /><br />So will the Frontier have a Korean war, and Vietnam, or a desert storm, or maybe a historic period of prohibition, and the rise and fall of the syndicate? If we use US history as the basis for Frontier history there is a lot of adventure and timeline materal just waiting to be developed.
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