A thread of 3 messages, 14 May 1994 to 16 May 1994, in the order they were sent.
I cast my vote to add the new mailing list.
It will make it alot easier for me to handle the daily digest
by making the DD smaller & that will actually allow me to post
more often.
Phil Pugliese
[email removed]I have a quick question that has been on my mind for months (ever since reading Survival Margin). Exactly _what_ is Project Longbow, and what is the significance of the date 70 years after the received message in SM? Has any further information been made available yet, or do we have to wait (as we do for the Regency sourcebook, which IMHO should have been the first sourcebook released for TNE, but that's another story)? - -- Craig Barnett [email removed] [email removed] Newcastle, NSW, Australia PGP Public key available by request
Craig Barnett [email removed] writes: >Exactly _what_ is Project Longbow, and what is the significance of the >date 70 years after the received message in SM? Has any further information >been made available yet, or do we have to wait (as we do for the Regency >sourcebook, which IMHO should have been the first sourcebook released for >TNE, but that's another story)? Officially, we don't know a blessed thing except the vague allusions in _Survival Margin_. Much like the whole "Who are these IRIS people?" business from Strephon. A quick unofficial guess-work analysis: Longbow appears to be some sort of psionic-based interstellar communications project, possibly in the research phase since prior to the First Civil War and First Interstellar War, which appearently has come to fruition by the early 1100s, at least enough to cause Strephon to consider repeal of the Psionics Suppression Acts of the early 800s. Someone or something named Pentecost is connected to the project. Pentecost was the day upon which the disciples of Jesus were "filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues", and is a Jewish feast day celebrating the first fruits of the harvest. Longbow was apparently being used to warn the Imperial government of some sort of mysterious threat approaching the Imperium at superluminal speeds and which would apparently reach the outer borders in about 1202. Make of the tidbits what you will. Apparently Pentecost went missing during the Rebellion. Strephon apparently witnessed a test from the Depot at Lishun to Capital, but we don't know much since he was busy waxing obscure...er, poetic. This is one of those "increasing the aura of mystery" things that GDW is so hot on these days. (No implied value judgment intended.) Steve Bonneville [email removed]