Tech -2 Environ +1 Resources -2
“Divine right of kings”
“Coilgun empires”
“Bolton welcomes our foreign devil overlords”
A long inhabited world, Bolton has not recovered from a violent collapse. Most of the inhabitable planet is an agricultural patchwork of ethnicities, religions, and languages. Gunpowder empires --Kask, Ambrosaan, Chmau, and other smaller states– were already spreading prior to the first Alliance traders; now off-world coilguns are the prestige weapon, sold for colonization rights that are making Bolton a face of the Contestants’ tensions. Khartoumi adventurers and arms dealers are working with all sides, including playing Lawrence of Arabia with local subalterns.
Connections: New Lisutu, New Terranova, Rhodes-Tufts