> On 5 Jul 2014, at 14:18, Bill Rutherford <worj@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> At 02:33 PM 7/4/2014, Timothy Collinson wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> As it's quiet...
>>
>> I was wondering about these questions if anyone has a view:
>>
>> - how prevalent would Zhodanis be in non-Imperial parts of the
>> Spinward Marches (I'm specifically thinking of District 268 and
>> margins) (I'm also thinking of in the year or two before the Fifth
>> Frontier War)
>> - common, rare?
>> - what would independent world attitude (in general) be to them?
>> Fearful?  Curious?  Accepting?
>> - if Zhos are not very very rare, would psi-helmets be easily available?
>>
>> I can't find a great deal written about this, so am happy to do my own
>> thing, but I just thought I'd ask if either I'd missed something or
>> whether there was a consensus on what the state of affairs might be.
>>
>> Cheers
>> tc
> Tim,
>
> Tripwire, a MGT book, is set in Jewell Subsector.  In that subsector several worlds are Zhodani-controlled, several (Jewell Cluster) are Imperium-controlled, and several others are independents.  The descriptions of the Zhos in Farreach, Ao-dai, Clan, and others, do a pretty good job of describing (at least a better job than I've seen elsewhere... ;-) Zho interactions with Imperials and trade amongst the powers in the Marches.

Ah, good tip.  I did read through Tripwire some years back but not
since, so I've forgotten it has that.

Will dig it out.  Many thanks
tc