From: [email removed]
>It seems to me that in the high velocity world of interstellar
>space, the time it takes to become alert is more than you have once
>the alarm goes off.
"Space is big. Really, really, really big."
From: [email removed] (David Johnson)
>> Unfortunately, what was destroyed in Hard Times and the Virus
>>was the Imperial interstellar culture. That has been utterly wiped
>>out, except in the Regency.
>Well, is this an opinion or something written in the GDW `stone
>tablet'? My sense is that, after only 70 years, those groups that
>manage to move back to the stars are going to be - by and large -
>descendants of Imperial culture that somehow managed to lessen the
>onslaught of the Virus.
...key word & tricky phrase was "my interpretation". Based on the
*events* described by GDW in Hard Times and Survival Margin, that was
my interpretation of the fate of Imperial "interstellar culture". As
I noted, it was 180 degrees from your interpretation. However, as far
as *my campaign* goes, "my interpretation" is written in the Cynthia
Higginbotham 'stone tablet' ...as is your interpretation in your
campaign, no doubt :-).
>> <Collapse (or at least its nature) could be associated with
>> the constitutional arrangements of the Third Imperium.> Not so much the
>> constitutional arrangements as much as the Nobles forgetting who there
>> obligations belonged too. Nobility could still be possible, if more
>> requirements were fixed on the Nobles. The RCES 'democracy' could run
>> into the same problems (just look at the general interest in term limits
>> on elected officials).
>I get your point but when I look at the `term limits' crowd in light of the
>chronically low voter turn out I have to ask myself if it's the politicians
>who have forgotten their obligations or the citizens? Remember, the most
>powerful politician on the planet's term was prematurely `limited' in 1992
>without recourse to any term limiting law. *That's* democracy.
Both, in my opinion... but we're straying into alt.politics.
Especially ironic when you consider that the citizenry were manipulated by
the media and out-and-out *lied* to by the "boy from Hope"... Slick
Willie is a "wonderful" example of politicians in a democracy
forgetting who his obligations belong to.
>> Subject: The Jumpstart Caches
>> Now Norris was told all of
>> their location
>How do `we' know this? Someone mentioned *Arrival Vengeance* but I looked
>and I can't find it there. Does it appear in *AV* errata?
Longbow and Jumpstart were introduced in "Survival Margin"; I
believe Norris was given the locations of the Jumpstart caches along
with Avery in AV.