Re: The New Era: A Curmudgeon's Thoughts.

Mike Metlay writes all kinds of interesting comments...
[The best of which I've deleted so I can subtly alter their
 meaning thus corrupting what he really said. ]


>>     TNE will definitely not be an outgrowth of MT.  Although MT was
>>an award winning game design

>What award? Most Errata in One Volume Of Rules? Dumbest Ship Combat System?
>Worst Pseudoscience?

(-;


[about the domain...]
>This is a soft spot in my heart, and I'm damn grateful for it. But I'd
>dearly love to know how they were able to actually stop the Virus....

My first reaction to reading that bit of the original posting was HOW?
After some more thought, I have come up with some typically draconian
solutions.

Quite simple really.  If they are able to destroy planets, they could
have created a zone of no passage by sterilising a few systems in corridor.
[ The Darrian star trigger might be of great assistance here ].  Another
possibility is placing large interdiction fleets at stragetic locations
(again in corridor sector) that have orders to not let anything past.
The fleets would have to have no transponders of any kind or they would
become infected.

A less nasty solution might involve the creation of a preditor-preditor
type chip.  Make it a serendipitous creation to explains why only the
domain survived.  Oops, the Zhondani also survive it obviously they must
be using totally different computers.

Being a little faceious now: wouldn't the 'virus' spread as fast as ships
moved?  Wouldn't this mean that it spread as fast as communication speed?
Which kind of implies that once you know the virus exists it is too late.

I think that 'plague' is a better term than 'virus'.


Lets just hope that GDW don't mash our beloved universe too much in
the transition to the new.






        						Pauli
PS: Can anybody come up with reasons why jump drives would be
used in preference to stutter-warp.

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