Sunday, 21 December 2025

The route to the Eber Homeworld

The 1989 module "Ranger" says the Eber homeworld is around Zeta 2 Reticuli. In the module, it's revealed that this is their homeworld, and they must have had a drive capable of doing 9.4 ly. This is a problem, because 9.4 ly isn't enough.

The described route says no more than two warps to p Eridani (i.e. what GDW mislabelled as "Rho Eridani"), but the 9.4 ly route is actually circuitous and goes via Stark. There is a better alternative; a tug link. 



The tug link goes to DM-68 47 (11.18 ly). From there it's normal warps to the known Eber ex-colonies, and the surviving one. This completely obviates for the need for any magic long-range drive.