> From: MacGyver [email removed]
> Subject: Re: GDW Virus Vultures
>
> just because
> you send them a story which has virus as an important concept, and
> they have this organic chip id system which works like a virus
> hardly implies they stole the idea from you.
According to my notes, Tim Brown (who really shot Strephon:) had an alternate
'crack the imperium' idea using Berzerkeroids that followed the Zhodani Core
Expeditions home, but I will withhold comment on the 'computer virus makes
ships behave like berzerkers' idea at least until I have gotten reply on some
emails which might take some time.
> And as far as Rob's design wasn't ackknowledged in the magazine
> article, my understanding was that it was a typesetting mistake.
> They simply omited it by accident.
Twice: Once in the article and once in 'Assignment: Vigilante'.
When I met Loren at Gencon, he made a question regarding if the ship name
'Admiral Bertil' and my name implied that I knew the person who did the
ship, but the name he mentioned wasn't Rob Dean!
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