Mezuka
Hero
The way I see the setting: It is a bit like the expansion to the West in the USA. There are frontier towns and settlements on all worlds (States) but the total population level of the Third Horizon is very low. The books and adventures don't add much info on population numbers. It is left to the GM to decide. For me the First Come are more numerous but their numbers are spread out. While the Zenithians are in lesser number but more concentrated around cities.Something that I feel being left unfortunately unclear is what kind of population scale the setting is supposed to have. The Coriolis Station is stated as having some 500,000 Zenithians living on it, 60 years after the original people split into two groups that stayed and went down to the planet respectively. How much is that of the total Zenithian population? Half of it? A tenth? A percent?
What about the Firstborn? Are they more or less common than Zenithians? Are there twice as many? Ten times as many? A hundred times as many?
Also, there are 36 system that are all have permanent populations, with 6 major inhabited planets. But there is still such population pressure that people are driven out to live as nomads on space ships?
Specific numbers don't matter, as no interstellar scale settings have them. But it seems really unclear what the population dynamics here are supposed to be.
Nomads living on spaceship are idealists. They didn't move because of population pressure. They moved to flee a form of government they didn't like.
You will find more info on other systems in the Atlas Compendium and The Coriolis Community Atlas.
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