Howdy,
Seems Phil took exception to what I wrote about the Zhodani
Tavrchedl' being a medical organization rather than a police force.
Well, son, you will have to admit that the first words out of my
terminal were:
}Speaking strictly from the Zhodani point of view:
I was doing just that, you see.
The Zhodani do not see the Tavrchedl' as a police force. They seem
them as a MEDICAL organization. I was writing to tell you how the
Zhodani view themselves. Which is, of course, how one should
*Role Play* them. And that is what this GAME is about.
That the organization might lead to abuse as similar systems did in
the F-USSR has no bearing on how the Zhodani view it. I personally
doubt that it would collapse given the differences there are
between Russian and Zhodani cultures.
How the organization is viewed by the Imperium is so well known I
don't even have to bother writing about the `Evil Empire's Thought
Police' (tm). What would be the point? I'd guess 99% of the
people here have either read 1984 or know enough about it to be
completely bored by the mention of it.
The Challenge we have here is to describe the organization of the
Tavrchedl' in such a way that it fits with the ideas we know of the
Zhodani culture. If the Zhodani viewed their own Tavrchedl' as
evil thought police, their society would not have lasted 9000 years
without revolution!
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Scott 2G Kellogg
"Kellogg is just plain nuts!" -- H. Beam Piper