>That's not *quite* what happened. The ducks were made scapegoats for
>Starbrow's Rebellion (which was crushed by superior Lunar strategy in
>1613 ST), and for many years afterwards, Sartarites could pay their
>taxes for a year by handing over a Duck's head to the Lunar tax
>collector.
>
>(NB: I have no idea how this squares with taxation levied at clan and
>tribal level, or the general Heortling lack of personal property and
>responsibility -- it's how it was explained in games played *before*
>those innovations were published).
It could be a cunning plot by the lunars to encourage the Sartarites to convert their property from communal to personal.
--Peter Metcalfe
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