How to wreck an Imperium
In reply to #3639 starship sizes by Brandon Cope
[email removed] (Brandon Cope) writes: > > As to the person who basically said to toss the problem of paying for a fleet > by the government printing more money to use to pay for it -- SAY WHAT???? > By the time you've paid for that grand fleet, you will have devalued the > credit so badly and caused such economic ruin that you'll wish you HAD been > invaded. Something like this is A Very Bad Idea. Well, it works better than the Computer Virus Idea, anyway! Other possibilities: 1. A mutant star goat came and ate all the TL 15 planets. 2. The Zhodani Consulate found out how the Imperium had used psychology to turn all its people against psionics, and had its secret agents mount a similar campaign to turn all Imperial citizens against TL 15 equipment. In revenge, the Imperial Secret Service used yet another campaign to make the Zhodani forget all about the Imperium. Both campaigns worked too well. The Imperial citizens turned against all equipment above TL 11, and are now working on TL 11 stuff as well. The Zhodani forgot about the Imperium, the Aslan and the Darrians, and are now fully occupied with their Core Exploration expeditions. 3. You've all heard of Chaos Theory, which means a butterfly can flap its wings and cause an earthquake. Now there's Megachaos Theory, in which a flea can burp and cause a TL 15 processor to malfunction. There's also Hyperchaos Theory, a development of quantum mechanics which states that if one TL 15 processor breaks down, all TL 15 processors break down in exactly the same way. Well, options 1 & 2 are more likely than the computer virus, and option 3 is about as likely as the computer virus. Add a lot of :-) and enjoy! - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]