Have you ever looked at Warhammer 40k?  Most of the races in Warhammer Fantasy have equivalents in 40k.  Though I think the Squats are still MIA, as they have been since 40k 2nd Ed.  Of course there are other races which have little or no fantasy equivalent.

Realistically there is no reason why this couldn’t be largely compatible with Traveller, especially if they’ve “Sailed across the Western Sea” (aka migrated) to a area that is largely unexplored/undocumented.  Or perhaps as the race has aged, their empires have receded, due to lack of interest in such things.  In fact in that scenario, humans might come across one of their old outposts, and the “Elves” show up as the result of an ancient alerting system letting them know there were visitors.  They don’t want others to have access to their Tech.

Zane

> On Dec 17, 2019, at 8:09 AM, Peter L. Berghold <xxxxxx@berghold.net> wrote:
>
> In a nod to Eric Von Daniken when designing my science fiction universe
> I decided that humanity was far from being alone much less the only
> humans in the universe.  With that decided I started thinking of all
> the humanoid creatures (elves, dwarves, trolls, lepraucans et al) and
> thought to myself "maybe those legends have some truth behind them!"
>
> It's been said before that tech of high enough level cannot be
> discerned from magic so the "magic powers" some of these creatures had
> could be be tech misunderstood by earth dwellers of sufficiently low
> tech level.
>
> Besides using using this list as a sounding board I want to pose some
> ideas and thoughts and see what the rest of the list members think of
> my insane ideas.
>
> I realize of course non of this is canon.
>
> So the personality (or a facet thereof) of elves I am aware of would in
> my mind make them if not xenophobic but aloof to the younger races (I
> have decided they are a very old race) and possibly hostile to humans
> in particular.
>
> This idea of mine is still being "baked" but I'm going to look at it
> for all the races listed above.
>
> I've already incorporated lepracauns in my universe as a scary nod to
> "Grandfather" with some of them still alive.  One Moonicher (their name
> for themselves) family appears on one of my short stories as brewers.
>
>
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>
> Peter L. Berghold                                 <xxxxxx@berghold.net>
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