Re: Pallique & TL 14 Medicine

Me:
> Metlay:
> >Me:

> Kellogg make grunt scratch on skins with flint:

Ugh.  Durb!  Durb!  Hom wompa gul!  Hom wompa gul!  :-)

> >Pallique is TL 14.
>
> True. So? Earth is TL8 and there are people eating badly cooked meat
> next to fires and dying of smallpox. As has been argued here many
> times before, the TL of a world is its MAX TL, not what the hoi polloi
> get. You can bet that the rulers of Pallique have it cushy, but the
> same may not be true of the workers.

Urg.  I believe that the listed TL is referred to as the High Common.
ie.  The TL that Is generally available to the masses.  But I may be
mistaken.  That's how *I* call it any how.  That's supposed to explain
how a TL 4-5-6 planet has a class A or B starport.  Thus IMGO, a TL 14
planet should have very nearly TL 14 medicine.

> >Well, it seems to me that the good old nuclear damper could do an effective
> >job of shielding the population.  (Very handy those things...  :-)
>
> If you have them.

TL 12.  Also, they'd be a lot cheaper than the equivalent amount of
shielding for the population.  O 'course you could explain that away by
sayin' that the screen only partially covers the prison parts of the
colony.   But I'd say it would be cheaper to service a nuc damper than
to serve 3 Billion cancer patients.

> >There is also, the nicely effective meson gun.  I seem to remember a few
> >years back, some people were talking about using a meson accelerator to
> >attack cancer growths.
>
> If you have them.

TL 11.

> But on Pallique, it's a whole new
> ballgame, because no one WANTS the workers to be happy or cheerful.
> They're being PUNISHED. If they DIE, they DESERVE it. The Imperium
> does not, to my knowledge, have a Constitution or a Bill of Rights,

Rm?  No bill of rights?  You sure?  What about the (much abused)
thing that sez all sophonts have the same rights?  The thing that
made all the mess when cyborgs got classified as machines.
(wish I had da books, sigh)

Ok, we got a population of three BILLION criminal deportees.  A little
more than half what Earth's current total population.  GEEZ!  What's
the LAW level on Trin & Mora?  And who are the judges that pack 'em off?
(Probably frustrated Traveller Refs.  :-)

> But the Rebellion's likely to change all that. Just imagine what's
> gonna happen when the Lakht Aorlakht decides to claim Pallique's
> riches for the ihatei and wants a solid base of popular support
> in-system! |->

Hrm.  Hadn't thought of that.  Interesting.
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