On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Dave <xxxxxx@usa.net> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 4:25 PM, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
I've always figured that the Traveller backstory *had* to include some kind of aggressive-AI crisis which triggered a Butlerian jihad analog, leaving all of known space culturally (and probably legally) disinclined to allow any but the stupidest computers to exist. Like so many other things, allowing this genie out of the bottle would irreparably damage the flavor of Traveller.

The only reason I don't think so is that AI is listed as occurring at a TL above that of the standard Traveller campaign. It might be a good campaign genesis otherwise.

Perhaps that TL table entry should read "controllable, non-megalomaniacal AI?"

Richard Aiken

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