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Bundle: 559
Archive-Message-Number: 7022
Subject: AND/OR
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 09:33:14 GMT
From: Lionheart \|/ [-- REDACTED --]

The Universe is HUGE!

Ted7[-- REDACTED --] writes....

>A lot of stuff deleted........


Virus makes no sense?
Why not?
Gee your points seem very vague considering we know considerably
very little about the tech level there. For the regency I assume
they acted very..uh..ruthlessly on anything that appeared.
Try not to portray RCES as Star Vikings...oh GOD I hate that name.
I treat em more like the Klingon Diplomatic Service...effective and
rather ruthless but still with an agenda other than booting about
the galaxy giving other races a HARD TIME (tm).

As for no cure for the Virus? The Hivers did pretty well...you also
have to consider that at this time there was meant to be a war on...

Confusion etc etc etc...

Your laboratory being nuked from orbit limits your ability to
research a problem. As does having your computer fire your prototype
antimatter gun at you.
The hardcopy libraries would be there...the fun is for the players
and their cohorts to FIND them.

Your AND/OR statements seem very limited. You say or and no and?
Well it is quite hard to start as a barbarian learning tchnology AND
also at the same time be an interplanetary trader within the Regency.
These things do take time. There is a MT adventure in a recent copy
of Challenge about a lower tech space program. Perhaps the players
can be the cosmonauts on that eh? That covers your barbarians
relearning plus the getting offworld easy.

The central point in all the ANTI-TNE arguements seems to be..

	"But its not CT/MT/2300, Ct/MT/2300 was better..."

Its not meant to be CT/MT/2300. It is however a good idea. It adds a
bit more to the "Okay you head into jump..a week later you come out,
library says iots an amber world. Theres a bit of trouble but the
imperial marines have sorted it out. Crime..yes...but the the
Imperial police have sorted it out. "

Edit the above with...

"Okay you EVENTUALLY arrive at Gnepticon IV, your library computer,
when consulted, says it is a large round pomegranite spinnng at
relativistic speeds in the cosmic bathtub...but you think it may
have memory problems. The Hitchhikers Guide says it is an amber
world..but then it also said there was a working class A
starport..yeah sure. The sensors indicate large amounts of debris
moving at high speeds...energy scan goes off the scale and a
blinding light flashes past your viewport, lucky the compensators
kicked in. You bring the viewer around and see a spidery monstrosity
constructed from bits of starship hulls and space station struts.
make yer piloting rolls you lucky guys."

I'll shut up now.

*********BTW...Q-CON is on in June.
*********We are playing TNE, Star Trek, Blakes 7 and others.
*********Its in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
*********be there, or be a Hiver.
*********June 17-19, 1994.

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                      Matt Johnston
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NOTHING IS TRUE, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED
                William S. Burroughs
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