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A thread of 2 messages, 9 June 1992 to 10 June 1992, in the order they were sent.

#4333 TNE

Lord Krieg · 9 June 1992

I "attended" a conference on America Online in which Lester Smith talked about
new GDW stuff.  The following information is what I found:

- -- The game uses the Twilight: 2000 2nd Edition system, but with a d20 instead
of a d10.

- -- The infamous virus does not affect the Spinward Marches or Lucan's territroy.No explanation was given of how the virus spread across the rest of the
Imperium, and I've pretty much given up hope that they will manage a remotely
plausible explanation of such an unlikely occurence.

- -- TNE is set 80 years in the future (in relation to what year, I don't know)
and covers the "reexploration of the galaxy"

My impression of the virus is that they needed it to get out of the hole they
are digging with Hard Times.  The GDW folks seems to have forgotten that the
Imperium has already had a 16 year civil war earlier in its history, with a
Frontier War at the same time for good measure.  The Civil War began under
much the same circumstances as the current rebellion, and the most realistic
outcome for the Rebellion is that in a few more years somebody will win and the
Imperium will be back to normal--after all, that's what happened before.

I'm afraid that I just don't care for the virus idea.  There are plenty of
things that could destroy the Imperium that would be highly unlikely, whereas
the virus theory is just plain impossible.

How about:
- -Lucan builds a Death Star or twelve and systematically blows up every HiPop
world outside his domain?
- -A previously unknown race appears, demolishes the Imperium, and then dies of
of some common Human disease?
- -The people of the Imperium discover that Strephon actually spent the past 6
years in the shower, and they all die of heart attacks simultaneously?

                                    Lord Krieg

Internet:  [email removed]
America Online:  Empr Krieg

#4344 Micellaneous

Hans Rancke-Madsen · 10 June 1992 · reply to #4333

"Lord Krieg" writes:
> How about:
> - -The people of the Imperium discover that Strephon actually spent the
>past 6  years in the shower, and they all die of heart attacks
>simultaneously?

Come on now. That they should all have heart attacks _simultaneously_ is
nearly as unlikely as the virus.

And Christofer Bertani writes:
>
>       Along the Silly Vehicle thread, I dug up an old design (originally
> Striker, later translated to MT) of a tank (I'm not sure tank is a
> strong enough word :-) heavily derivative of Michael Moorcock's _The_Land_
> _Leviathan_.

Next someone will be figuring out the stats for Ogres and GEV vehicles.
(Or BOLOs if you don't want to infringe on Steve Jackson Games' copyrights).



      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
     [email removed]
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