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As far as I know the Solomani have continued expanding to Rimward straight thru the Long Night up to the present.
I figure there must be some worlds out there that would be easy pickings.
Also, the Aslan did grab Glisten didn't they? Hi-Pop, HiTL.
And the Aslan had little love for the SolConfed.
Surely there must've been constant conflict 'tween the aslan & solomani along their border.
I do agree about the areas to 'trailing' but, in the end, I think it was just part of DGP's brief to "shake things up".
Injecting a large number of aslan into the 'Marches achieved that for sure!
And so they gained a nice, neat, & tidy sector with a whole lot more potential for excitement than before.

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On Tue, 4/19/16, Kenneth Barns <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Tech levels during different times
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 6:32 PM

 You mean
 in the Rebellion Era?
 Rebellion Sourcebook suggests that
 ihatei (and their descendants) tended to be
 disproportionately sent "over the rift" to Trojan
 Reach.  Upon hearing of upheavals in the 3I, in 1117 local
 Fleet Dispatcher said, "What the hell, try your luck
 over the Imperial border."  Their success in squatting
 on underpopulated Imperial worlds encouraged more
 migrants.  Formal Aslan fleets came later.
 The other factor is population
 density.  I get the impression that the Aslan were more
 concerned about open spaces than worlds per se.  Even if
 the Solomani government and fleets were weak, the spinward
 sectors of the Confederation were more likely to be already
 densely populated.  No squatting here, you'd need to
 launch a war of conquest.  And weak though the
 Confederation was compared to the Imperium (especially in
 the early aftermath of the Rim War), it would still have
 been much more powerful than any single clan, or conceivable
 coalition of clans.  So for that reason, generations of
 ihatei had gone coreward, rimward, and spinward ... but not
 trailing into the Solomani Sphere.
 A better question would be: why
 didn't more of them go trailing into Ustral, Uistilao
 and beyond?
 --Cheers!

 Ken

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 Then, of course, that raises the question of why all the
 Aslan ihatei that later flooded the 3I weren't already
 flooding the SolConfed?

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