H. Beam Piper | Development of the Terro-human Future History

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Terro-human Future History Development Claims

	"Should we do more exploring and claim some more of these places, or should we come home right away and start recruiting, and then come back with a large party . . . and explore and make further claims as we have time?"
	— Conn Maxwell, The Cosmic Computer

Modeled after the Traveller Mailing List (TML) Landgrab, Piper Development Claims are personal, non-commercial efforts to develop the worlds and future history of H. Beam Piper's fictional Terro-human Future History (TFH). Each background developer should report on the claimed world (or future historical century) in great detail. The exact level of detail and degree of compliance with official canon is open to interpretation. Each background developer should survey his or her claim (including gathering the relevant canonical information) and submit a Developer's Report to the Piper Mailing List. The claims made thus far include:

World Claim	Developer	Date of Claim
Fafnir	William Taylor	July 2001
Gimli	David Johnson	July 2001
Poictesme	Dietmar Wehr	October 2008
Sarpanitum	Mike Robertson	July 2007
Vishnu	Mike Robertson	July 2007
Volund	Mike McGuirk	February 2001
Zarathustra (now Fuzzy Ergo Sum)	Wolf Diehr	June 2004

In addition to development claims to the worlds of Piper's Terro-human Future History (TFH) others have expressed an interest in developing specific centuries of the TFH "Atomic Era." Here are those claims:

Atomic Era Century Claim	Developer	Date of Claim
First Century, AE	Steve Newton	August 2001
Second Century, AE	David Johnson	June 2002
Tenth Century, AE	Dietmar Wehr	October 2008

Piper Development Claims have been expanded to encompass the process of comparing various editions of Piper's work for consistency and differences in order to expand and clarify the canonical material used for development. Developers in this area choose a given work and report on their comparison of the various editions. The claims made so far include:

Canon Claim	Developer	Date of Claim
Uller Uprising/"Ullr Uprising"	Tom Rogers	September 2001
"Oomphel in the Sky"	Tom Rogers	January 2002

If you wish to participate, stake your cliam on the Piper Mailing List. If none oppose you, or if you prevail in an ensuing discussion, you too may become a background developer.

Background developers may lay their claim and/or provide links to their Developer's Report by posting an announcement to the Piper Mailing List. Developers may have their Developer's Report hosted at Zarthani.net by sending a request to the Zarthani.net Development Claims Bureau.

Further development of the Terro-human Future History

	"I don't know what plans you have for a next story project, but the world-picture you've been building up in the Sword Worlds stories, or Space Viking stories, or whatever you designate the series, offers some lovely possibilities."
	— John W. Campbell

In addition to the above efforts to develop the Terro-human Future History canon a variety of other commercial products and informal efforts exist which are based upon or expand on the Terro-human Future History setting.

	"A History of the Terran Federation," a series of monographs for the Terro-human History Project, Valhalla University Press, Odin, 1360 AE. (Image: "the wreathed globe of the Terran Federation" on a "light blue" field, as described in Piper's "Graveyard of Dreams.")
	Assorted messages originally posted to the now-defunct PIPER_L mailing list pertaining to aspects of the Terro-human Future History.
	Traveller™ Sword Worlds: The original Game Designers' Workshop and now Far Future Enterprises role-playing game setting based on the Sword Worlds in Piper's novel Space Viking (non-canonical).
	Traveller™ Sword Worlds: The GURPS role-playing game setting based on the Sword Worlds in Piper's novel Space Viking (non-canonical).
	A detailed description of the planet Fenris (from Four-Day Planet) created for the Undocumented Features fictional setting (non-canonical).
	The Hashemite Caliphate, a non-canonical analogue for the pre-Federation era Islamic Caliphate created by Pedromoderno for the Ill Bethisad alternate history setting.
	Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper, John Appel, Vaclav G. Ujcik, and Greg Videll, Rogue Games, 2009. A science-fiction role-playing game supplement based upon Piper's Terro-human Future History stories "Naudsonce" and "Ministry of Disturbance" (plus the Paratime yarn "Last Enemy"). A (non-canonical) interstellar map of The Voyage of the Hubert Penrose based on "Naudsonce." A (non-canonical) interstellar map of the Galactic Empire based on "Ministry of Disturbance." It includes a wonderful rendition of the Imperial "golden sun and superimposed black cogwheel" emblem.
	John F. Carr's Terro-human Future History sequels.
	Fuzzy Ergo Sum, Wolfgang Diehr, Boalsburg, PA: Pequod Press, 2011, with cover illustration by Alan Gutierrez.
	Traveller™ The Third Imperium: Sword Worlds: The Mongoose Publishing role-playing game setting based on the Sword Worlds in Piper's novel Space Viking (non-canonical).