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Apparently the 'bulk mass' of Vilani was still considered a problem by the 'canon-writers' so they came up w/ a plague that decimated the Vilani pop in the Rimward areas of the V'Imperium.

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On Wed, 8/31/16, Joseph Paul <xxxxxx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 Subject: [TML] Future forced colonization efforts and Harry Turtledove
 To: "Tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 9:46 AM

 So - anyone familiar with Mr.
 Turtledove's AltHistory Worldwar series?

 The set up is that in 1942 Earth is invaded by a species
 that has
 interstellar cold sleep travel and armaments much like our
 own modern
 forces - MBTs, supersonic jet aircraft, assault rifles,
 counter battery
 fire, and yes H-bombs.

 The species is lizardoid, small, and has a unified culture
 and language
 and a long history of imperial rule that the males of the
 species
 dedicate their lives to. Slow to make technical or social
 progress
 themselves, they are astounded to learn that what their
 probes reported
 Earth was like 800 years ago is nothing like it is now. They
 brought the
 wrong gun to the planet wide conflict.

 Their stuff is much better but they only have so much of it
 and they are
 having problems getting production going to make
 replacements. Locals
 don't want to help. Locals get pissed and are hard to cow in
 to
 submission. The only reinforcements for the invaders is the
 much larger
 colonizing fleet that is twenty years behind them.

 All in all this sounds like a great early Traveller back
 ground. Terrans
 show up with nifty new gadgets but 3 billion Vilani with
 lower tech
 equipment is still quite a handful. I understand the canon
 that spells
 out the collapse of the Vilani but I wonder if there is room
 for any
 exceptions? The big difference is in the speed of
 interstellar travel -
 in Traveller something would need to be done to cripple the
 Terran
 invaders ability to flee or get reinforcements.

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