> Answers will either be right near as damn it; or egregiously
> "wrong" (modelling one's Lunar Empire, for lack of firm fact,
> on a real world expansionist Red menace, to take one extreme
> example)
Erm. Assuming you mean "egregious" in the normal sense, and not as some kind of "Greg" pun which I might have missed, are you trying to say that modelling aspects of the Lunar Empire on aspects of Soviet Communism is somehow incorrect?
If so, this would come as a surprise to many of us here at the Reaching Moon Megacorp, and to most attenders of Glorantha-Cons in recent years (with singalongs, seminars and freeforms aimed at exploring the Red Army, Red Empire, political officers, "New- New Pelorian, etc. etc. ad nauseam for some).
If not, what *are* you trying to say? That the published/public RMM "take" on Lunar Commies is "wrong"/"incorrect"/"worthless"? I'm baffled, me.
> The intermediate "nothing will get published for a decade or
> so, and then you'll get Gregged/Sandied/MOBbed/etc".
So? You have ten years good gaming, and can pose as a guru when your setting finally arrives near publication. Keep waffling on about your favourite corner of the world here on the Digest, and when Tales or Tradetalk or whoever are looking for an article on your Specialist Subject, they'll ask you first. Then everyone *else* out there can be "Tined".
> In the Lunars-as-Commies alternate, the presence of descendents
> of the few Sun worshipping nobles who escaped the Red Revolution
> living in penurious exile in surrounding lands, to be used as
> figureheads for invasions ... suddenly turns out non-canonical.
Well, we've known for years that the Lunars "embraced" Dara Happa in a friendly alliance back in the Zero Wane, but fought against them in the First Wane. Recent Greggery-pokery hasn't changed that; while recent Megacorp shenanigans go to great lengths to stress the differences between Dara Happan traditions and Lunar innovations. (See frex Andrew Bean's piece in "Enclosure"). So, if you added the idea that the Lunars chucked out *all* the Solars to your Glorantha, contrary to the information available in old sources, that's fair enuff -- but if you want to keep your campaign intact with *a* set of exiled Sun-worshipping nobles (perhaps even more aggrieved that so many of their compatriots have come to terms with the New Order), I don't have a problem with that. Not all Dara Happans love the Red Moon; not all Solar Nobles are loved by the current Empire or Emperor; power politics always create losers, exiles and the dispossessed (just look at Duke Raus!).
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Nick
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