Interesting.
Perhaps they were panicking over their contact/conflict with (according to the original DGP intentions) the Primordials during their Core Expeditions?
Still, they came close to victory in the 3FW so the idea of winning shouldn't have been too far-fetched.

From: Joshua Bell <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: The Traveller Mailing List <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TML] WAS Zhodani: Technologically challenged? NOW Frontier Wars

The "why" of the 5FW is given a canonical explanation by Don McKinney in the Mongoose Zhodani supplement.

Without going too far into spoiler territory: it was indeed an act of desperation without much hope of success.


On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
What, a large empire run by highly talented psions manipulating their adversaries to beat each other up? Unpossible!

> On Jan 24, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Catherine Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now I'm wondering whether the 5FW was really just a way to get the Imperium to beat the crap out of the Sword Worlds and Vargr, who may well have been thorns in the Zhodani side.
>

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