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On Tue, 11/3/15, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TML] Re: [CotI] News from Traveller and FFE
To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 12:24 PM
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On Tue,
Nov 3, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
wrote:
#2 "Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the
Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of
empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more
people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a
hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they
re-activate his recorded personality whenever a new threat
appears. When the crisis is over, they expect he will meekly
return to oblivion."
[Does the 3I even have this capability c1100 & TL15 much
less 400 years earlier?]
T5
puts wafer tech at TL13, with "experimental" much
earlier than that.
I'd put
"destructive scanning" in the
"experimental" category
Funny thing, I would've thought that it would be a lot more prominent by 1100?
(Yeah, I know, just another instance of a 're-do' that 'undoes' things too)
Maybe the novel will include the emperor who tried to go on forever?
Or maybe he/they have been for who knows how long?
Wasn't the 3I at TL12 at inception?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'm having my issues with it.On the one hand, it supports a thing called "Life Insurance" as a mustering out bennie : you have an insurance policy that'll spool up a clone and put your personality in it. Once.T5 also has "wafer jack" as a mustering out bennie - allowing you to slot personalities (temporarily), skills, or use the jack to control devices or download your personality.On the plus side, it balances the deadliness of combat.On the minus side... there's so many things clever players could abuse.Examples in the book even list some of them.----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com To unsubscribe from this list please goto http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=PltOdItWBSgOP4y0Q6abkGbDI1eus0lz