Moonboat crews

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 23:36:26 +1300


Ian Thomson:

>for creating the Moonboat(s) in the Glamour scenario in YBoT3 I entered
>into exhaustive discussion with official Lunar writer: Wesley

>So all the Moonboat info there has passed through the digestive system
>of officialdom (so to speak), and been given the nod

>Of course any parts may change before Issaries Inc publication, but as
>far as I know its all pretty much accepted

Already contradicted in one specific case. The sailors do not worship Vargar but Yestendos himself (Glorantha: Intro p103 and p112), he having learned how to do so during the Flood AFAIK but the secret became obsolete when the Moon fell.

On military Moonboats, the crew is split three ways. As well as the Yestendos crew that keeps the boat in the air (the following bit is either Greg's or Martin's), the officers are from "the Lunar and Celestial elite" (i.e. Yanafali, Pole Star, Urvairinus etc) while the Marines are from the Sky Captain cult whomever that is (Anaxial?).

Hence none of the officers would be Darjiinians (unless they were Lunars) and I think the Pilot is a more conventional type than depicted in YBoT3 (although whether the moonboat has rudders is one that Greg might have a strong opinion about).

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