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<email conversation sent to the list due to possibility of general interest>

Mike Metlay writes:
>Rob Dean writes:
>>The trouble I have with placing the subsector is that the Imperium is too old
>>which is a situation we've discussed on the list before.  I'd welcome any
>>input on the topic.
>
> Ooooh! I have a good one! Let's kick the whole thing back in TIME! How about
> to the Sixth or Seventh Century-- highest TL was only about 12, and the Civil
> War was brewing, and Terra was being reintegrated into the Imperium! Then we
> could put it ANYWHERE.

Yes, I think that this would work best, with the exception that I'd like to
use TL13 as the Imperial base, with those two TL14 planets then being at the
real cutting edge of technology.  When would that put it, and what was going
on on the Imperial timeline?  If set earlier, my preferred astrography--in
the Verge sector--would not be a real problem.  That also means that I think
that we'll go with some version of Hans' Long Night era pocket empire based
around Susato.

> If you want it out there *now*, with Hard Times being what it is, we could
> also put it anywhere, but then we'd need a high-tech history....

Also a possibility.  Is the history going to affect the adventure potential
a lot?  I'm not really sure myself...

>>Speaking of travel, I thought about you last Thursday, as I passed through
>>the Pittsburgh airport on my way to visit my grad student brother...
>
> Oh? I haven't seen the new airport. Is it nice?

I don't know--we had to go a long way on foot between two planes in a fairly
short amount of time, and I had just about enough time left over to call my
brother and tell him we were on schedule, without anything left over to grab
a candy bar from a vendor.  I wonder if this happens to people making conn-
ections at Class A starports?  If you believe the SOM, I suppose it couldn't
because the random jump lenght would make you reluctant to try to meet a
scheduled connection less than a day or two later than your arrival...

Rob Dean