Planetary Briefs Vs. Cultural Perspectives

So Issue 4 of Frontier Explorer has hit and presumably some of you have had a chance to read it. Perhaps you noticed the the article on Morgaines World which is a &quot;cultural perspective&quot; <br /><br />What exactly is a cultural perspective? Its sort of a planetary brief from the player's side of the gaming table.<br />It deals with all the same information as a planetary brief but is not concerned with the things a referee is concerned with ie whats there, what might happen there and rooting and grounding an adventure there.<br /><br />Instead its concerned with helping a player root and ground his player character background in that location. <br /><br />Since it deals with all the same information as a planetary brief it only occurred to me as issue 4 was going to print that i could have been thorough and done the planetary brief as well sort of a Morgaines World with referee section and player section. Although any halfway creative referee really ought to be able to run an adventure by the seat of his pants with only having read the cultural perspective. I for one believe I could abstract a lot just from the Morgaine's World article without a detailed planetary brief if i needed to use the planet as a referee (but then I wrote the article so maybe that's just me.)<br /><br />I've been considering future writing projects of this sort and it seems to me that there are actually more players than referees and thus cultural perspectives should be in higher demand than planetary briefs. <br /><br />Morgaine's world was actually fairly straight forward and no doubt other worlds might be more complicated due to multiple species calling it home- i can see a multi racial world having separate treatments or paragraphs covering the culture of the different species.<br /><br />I'd love some feed back on this. Do you consider a cultural perspective more or less half finished if the author neglects doing a detailed planetary brief or do you prefer a the short abstract article that essentially allows each referee to abstract the details they need within a broad frame work laid out by the perspective.<br />What other sorts of cultures in the frontier would you like to see treatments for?