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>From: Corran J. Webster [email removed]

Welcome to the list, Corran.

>    The Virus is going to make technological advance extremely difficult in
>affected areas, however, so that recovery may well be not possible - every
>time that a civilisation gets to TL 7 or so, it will almost surely start
>using silicon chips,

What's the bet that someone will develop a non-silicon chip before the
Cymberline predator has been on the scene 10 years?

>    Realising the military potential of this discovery for the Domain of
>Deneb, the development of stutterwarp drive ships are fast-tracked and the
>problems with the electronics surmounted by new (and incidentally Virus-
>proof) technologies. By the time the Domain of Deneb is threatened by the
>Virus a small squadron of fighting ships is ready. This handful of ships
>then defeats a Virus Armada coming through Corridor.

> [Deneb then helps]
>the Aslan Heirate (in exchange for the Ihatei to stop their attacks),

The ihatei isn't even a real threat without the virus. With the Aslans
plagued by the Virus and Deneb controlling virus-free, stutterwarp ships
there's only one way the Aslans are going to get any: As loyal vassals
of Archduke Norris.



      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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        "A  subsector  official  pompously states that the
        subsector  armed  forces  have  four Kinunir class
        ships in service,  each with enough troop strength
        to put down any military operations that threathen
        the peace of the Imperium."

                        ---Adventure 1, The Kinunir