Fun idea!

Sol is about 8000 parsecs from the center of the galaxy. If we assume expansion at roughly that radius, the distance to be covered to circle back around from trailing is about 50000 parsecs.

How fast would the "wave front" spread? I think around a parsec a year seems reasonable. That would advance Aslan-controlled space at around a subsector per decade, which seems a brisk but potentially reasonable pace, if they're breeding like rabbits and building up high-pop worlds back toward home which send off hundreds of thousands of ihatei a year, all racing each other to get far enough to spinward to find new worlds to colonize (and begin breeding on, and within a few decades start launching ihatei of their own, repeat).

If they keep up this pace constantly, they circle back around to K'Kree and Hiver space in around 50 millennia. Maybe the scouts get there a few thousand years earlier.

The galaxy sure is big...

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com> wrote:

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This post inspired me to delve into the various sources esp wrt Aslan expansionism & it set me to thinking.

For quite a few centuries (even more than a millenium?) iHatei must've been heading off to spinward from the Hierate.

Well, what has happened 'out there'? We know, from the early years of The Rebellion that they can move pretty fast sometimes.

I have this vision of the a sudden announcement that iHatei have commenced appropriating chunks of Hiver & Centaur territory to trailing, after having spread all the way 'round the Milky Way!

p.s. how fast can the Aslan pop grow? There'd be an additive effect as iHatei settle in & then produce & send out their own offspring, wouldn't there?

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On Thu, 7/2/15, Brett Kruger <krugerbf@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

Subject: [TML] Aslan Border Wars
To: "tml@simplelists.com" <tml@simplelists.com>
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2015, 1:57 AM

Hi Most
Knowledgeable Traveller Folks,
I have been looking for some info on the Aslan
Border Wars but have drawn a blank. I can find the general
information on the start and end dates and so on in the
various alien source books and Imperial Encyclopedia but I
remember reading some time back about how the Aslan Border
Wars were finally resolved by each side designating a target
world and the first to capture it (Imperials as it turned
out) won the war and would set the border.
Anyone know that and were I could find it?
Also any other references to the wars I might be
missing?
Cheers,
Brett.
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