Bases: A = Navy & Scout Bases D = Naval Depot N = Naval Base S = Scout Base C = Corsair Base Allegiance: Gc = 3rd Geonee Conf. Tp = Tanny Project Na = Non-aligned Wi = Wilds Bc = Black Curtain Un = Unpopulated Hb = Hub Worlds VC = Virus ControlledMassilia Sector - Credits ------------------------- The Massilia Sector data was ftped from Sunbane. This sector was also covered to some extent in issue 11 of The Travellers' Digest put out by Digest Group Publications in 1988. The people involved in the Massilia write-up from that issue were Nancy Parker and Robert Parker. One interesting tidbit about this sector is that while DGP spells it "Massilia", GDW seems to prefer the spelling "Massila". I wrote the TML asking for an explanation, and Mark Seemann (mark@dk-online.dk) wrote me back with the following: Massilia is the Latin word for the French city of Marseilles. It makes good sense that Solomani conquerers would name a sector after a Terran city, and the name would then have stuck. I don't think Massila means anything, and having heard about DGP's Gary Thomas' fondness for ancient Terran languages, this explanation makes the most sense to me. For this reason, and for the reason that DGP (not GDW) did the development of this sector, I decided to go with their version of the name. The TNE-RCES mailing list lead by Nicolas Lejeune() collapsed and created the 1200 version of Massilia Sector.
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