If you dont have a problem with the existing Zebs timeline this is not the thread for you.<br />The place to debate that is here: http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/3649<br /><br />I noticed an area of my timeline article that probably would have been written differently with even just a modicum of feedback stating a different view and since I'm working on a timeline for the Rim that mirrors my earlier timeline article in that it details the "Age of Colonization" for the Rim ending with the CFM's contact with the Frontier just after the First Sathar War, I thought I should seek some outside imput and feed back.<br /><br />In Zebs the timeline focuses on the Frontier then introduces the Rim and the CFM with no back story for them. This is of course illogical as a sub-sector civilization will not suddenly spring out of the grass. It will have history and culture. Or fluff that gives it the feeling of age.<br /><br />So I'm looking for feed back and imput rather than try to craft another timeline article in a vacuum. I plan to follow the pattern I used in the first article, with the "story" history, a bullet timeline, and some design notes if necessary, as well as differing calender systems based on planetary calenders of the various homeworlds involved with an eye to providing a referee with a source that lets him write game back ground for the PCs and be able to throw in a date that could require the PCs to look up what that date translates to in Galactic Standard time.<br /><br />That said this thread is about the "Story" as once you have that the other stuff falls into line fairly quickly.<br /><br />In the previous article the important story points, for me, were to explain the founding and discoveries of the various colonies, origins of a monarchy and by extention the founding of the Royal Marines, Explain how a fledgling civilization was able to mobilize and stop the sathar so quickly, and explain the seemingly artificial distribution of Yazirian clans from the SFman article on them; ie I felt it didn't make sense that clans were limited to one planet and didn't span multiple planets. working on the story of all that pushed me to use the Hatzk Nar Pirates and the Free World Rebellion to build a rising realization that military expeditures were a good idea <br /><br />So below I'm looking for the talking points as to what should be told in the story of the Rim's Age of Colonization.
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