For those wanting more Primitives volumes, well the Dreadnought came out 200 years before even the TH could build KF Booms, meaning for jump capable craft she technically falls within the primitive classification, at least if I'm reading IO correctly.
The Dreadnought falls into a lovely zone called "too far back for rules to cover", I think. AKA, about anything from before 2300. (The tables in IO cover tech from 2300 onward, placing the stuff from before that line in the "PS" (Pre-Spaceflight) or "ES" (Early Spaceflight) categories. At those points, things got too screwy and the utter lack of any material planned to cover events in those times made it pointless to bother with rules for them.
I guess there a low chance of a Era Digest: Early Succession Wars hmm? :(
It was expanded into 2 full sourcebooks. How is that a bad thing? :D
Those were the Historicals, Adrian. He's referring to an Era Report/Digest, which would be more AToW/RPG focused (with Tracks for campaign players). Kind of like how we had FM:SLDF (and the 2765 Field Reports), as well as an Era Report for 2750. Before August of 2013, at least, the schedule had planned companion Era Digests for all of the planned Historicals, meaning the Early Succession Wars Historical (then a single book covering the First and Second Wars) was to be followed by an Era Report: Early Succession Wars, with an eventual Third Succession War Historical (or maybe two, though I think it could have been done in just one), with a Late Succession Wars Era book to cover that and the Fourth War-3049 period (which were largely covered by other published sourcebooks).
Between those four (or five) books, we would have thus had Historicals and Era Reports/Era Digests covering virtually the entire span of BT History from the Age of War through the Dark Age. The same span covered by the Tech Table featured in Interstellar Operations--and a great place to simply call the whole thing complete.
Of course, that WAS the plan, as of three years ago. The plan these days is far less definite.
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