From: nilsw@ibm.net
Date: Tue 03 Sep 1996 - 00:00:04 EEST
Sandy:
>Nils and Greg Fried (I believe) tend towards a belief that
>the specialists who operate the sunscopes are priests. I believe that
>they are adherents to a special society: the Sun Seers.
It was Greg F's idea from the beginning and he had them as priests.
But I think in the end we were all in agreement that the Order of the
Risen Sun (Greg's name) was a secret society.
>Haragalan society is governed by the Captains. In theory,
>every Captain (who owns his own ship) gets a vote. In practice, some
>Captains are more equal than others.
Also, a Captain (note the capitalization, very captain isn't a
Captain), has to support his tallship financially. A tallship is a
poor trading vessel (small cargo capacity) so the Captain has to own a
merchant fleet too. Those who aren't rich enough for that sometimes
turn to privateering.
In my campaign, an important figure was one of the "more equal"
Captains, the admiral Jaram Zaragiki of Red Swordfish. As the naval
commander of the important port town Malgo he had earned the enmity of
some other Captains who didn't like the idea of having a superior.
The PCs came to be pawns in this game of intrigue.
Oh, back to the sunscopes, Haragalan ports usually are protected by a
fortified tower with a huge sunscope mounted at the top. Real doomsday
weapons, reputedly capable of melting solid rock.
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