Re: Technophobia
In reply to #7269 Technophobia by Joni M Virolainen
Joni M Virolainen [email removed] writes: >But I think that technophobic planets are possible, even probable. . . . [example comparing to nasty dog attack] . . . >With this example I wanted to tell you how irrational phobias are. Hear, hear! And in the case of Virus, technophobia is a damn rational response -- assuming that anyone is left rational afterwards. Living through a Virus attack on an unprepared, unsuspecting world would be like a movie by Steven King (or another wild horror author) on a real bad acid trip. The problems start small, but get worse and worse as Virus takes hold. Anything that's automated can and will be used in the most destructive way the controlling Virus can think of (at least in the case of the secondary Viral strains). Not only would survivors of such an attack be pretty screwed up for a long time afterward, they might never find out why all their machinery turned against them. This could lead to all sorts of crazy speculation, and the idea that a controlling spirit residing in a computer decided to visit itself on humaniti to make it suffer for the sins of the Rebellion, in the absence of any other plausible explanation, might carry the day. (Besides, the concept of Virus isn't exactly all that rational either...considering all the debate on the TML on how to explain how it can possibly work.) >I'd like to hear about that Earth Colony campaign and more about that >bodysnatcher adventure. I agree. No reason to limit discussion to the GDW universe here, after all. It would definitely be interesting to hear about some of the variants people have come up with. ******************************************************************************* Steve Bonneville | "Beware the tablespoon my son, | The teeth that bite, the Claus that catch, [email removed] | Beware the Subjects bird, and shred | The serious Bandwidth!" *******************************************************************************