https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Agents_Of_Empire%2FBrainstorming 2026-05-08T17:41:05Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.37.1 https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=578&oldid=prev 2011-05-05T04:15:38Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:15, 5 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The Imperial Archives, accumulated over five millennia, take up a cave-system the size of B*****m (actually, several: there are probably a number of backup Archives at varying levels of security clearance, scattered around the galaxy.) Innumerable shifts in data standards, administrative overhauls, half-assed re-organisations, theft, censorship policies, the increasingly hermetic culture of the Archivists and the sheer scale of the thing have made anything over a few hundred years old painfully difficult to retrieve. The flourishing trade of archaeospionage: finding the useful stuff among the seas of dross, stealing, modifying or destroying it before someone else does (or the Archivists catch you and use your skin to resleeve some data-handles.)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The Imperial Archives, accumulated over five millennia, take up a cave-system the size of B*****m (actually, several: there are probably a number of backup Archives at varying levels of security clearance, scattered around the galaxy.) Innumerable shifts in data standards, administrative overhauls, half-assed re-organisations, theft, censorship policies, the increasingly hermetic culture of the Archivists and the sheer scale of the thing have made anything over a few hundred years old painfully difficult to retrieve. The flourishing trade of archaeospionage: finding the useful stuff among the seas of dross, stealing, modifying or destroying it before someone else does (or the Archivists catch you and use your skin to resleeve some data-handles.)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** This is a family board, don&#039;t use language like that so incautiously.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** This is a family board, don&#039;t use language like that so incautiously.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:AgentsOfEmpire]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Vimes https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=566&oldid=prev 2011-05-05T03:11:10Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:11, 4 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The chainsaw-sword is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The chainsaw-sword is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The Imperial Archives, accumulated over five millennia, take up a cave-system the size of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Belgium </del>(actually, several: there are probably a number of backup Archives at varying levels of security clearance, scattered around the galaxy.) Innumerable shifts in data standards, administrative overhauls, half-assed re-organisations, theft, censorship policies, the increasingly hermetic culture of the Archivists and the sheer scale of the thing have made anything over a few hundred years old painfully difficult to retrieve. The flourishing trade of archaeospionage: finding the useful stuff among the seas of dross, stealing, modifying or destroying it before someone else does (or the Archivists catch you and use your skin to resleeve some data-handles.)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The Imperial Archives, accumulated over five millennia, take up a cave-system the size of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">B*****m </ins>(actually, several: there are probably a number of backup Archives at varying levels of security clearance, scattered around the galaxy.) Innumerable shifts in data standards, administrative overhauls, half-assed re-organisations, theft, censorship policies, the increasingly hermetic culture of the Archivists and the sheer scale of the thing have made anything over a few hundred years old painfully difficult to retrieve. The flourishing trade of archaeospionage: finding the useful stuff among the seas of dross, stealing, modifying or destroying it before someone else does (or the Archivists catch you and use your skin to resleeve some data-handles.)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** This is a family board, don&#039;t use language like that so incautiously.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Vimes https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=563&oldid=prev 2011-05-04T21:16:52Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:16, 4 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l9">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The chainsaw-sword is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The chainsaw-sword is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* The Imperial Archives, accumulated over five millennia, take up a cave-system the size of Belgium (actually, several: there are probably a number of backup Archives at varying levels of security clearance, scattered around the galaxy.) Innumerable shifts in data standards, administrative overhauls, half-assed re-organisations, theft, censorship policies, the increasingly hermetic culture of the Archivists and the sheer scale of the thing have made anything over a few hundred years old painfully difficult to retrieve. The flourishing trade of archaeospionage: finding the useful stuff among the seas of dross, stealing, modifying or destroying it before someone else does (or the Archivists catch you and use your skin to resleeve some data-handles.)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Maga https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=562&oldid=prev 2011-05-04T20:55:23Z

<p>chainsaw-sword!</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:55, 4 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* The chainsaw-sword is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

RogerC https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=544&oldid=prev 2011-05-04T03:28:23Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:28, 3 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*** It seems that, given the state of the Empire, most vital-infrastructure things like the courier service, guaranteed currency, etc., would be the nominal purview of the Empire itself, and theoretically outside house politics -- but nobody knows how long this is likely to be the case, and most major Houses are quietly building up their own systems.[[User:Maga|Maga]] 20:23, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*** It seems that, given the state of the Empire, most vital-infrastructure things like the courier service, guaranteed currency, etc., would be the nominal purview of the Empire itself, and theoretically outside house politics -- but nobody knows how long this is likely to be the case, and most major Houses are quietly building up their own systems.[[User:Maga|Maga]] 20:23, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*** So possibly empire-sponsored guilds for things like that, nominally outside of the house system and reporting to the Emperor, but in practical fact either not reporting to anyone or reporting to one or more houses with deep pockets.  I'm thinking courier services, some form of notary / witness service, maybe a moneychanger system (tightly tied to the couriers, to handle the fact that currency has violently different worth across different planets), and maybe some sort of medical practice (thinking Dune's Suk school, basically).  [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:28, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td></tr> </table>

Vimes https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=543&oldid=prev 2011-05-04T03:23:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:23, 3 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*** It seems that, given the state of the Empire, most vital-infrastructure things like the courier service, guaranteed currency, etc., would be the nominal purview of the Empire itself, and theoretically outside house politics -- but nobody knows how long this is likely to be the case, and most major Houses are quietly building up their own systems.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*** It seems that, given the state of the Empire, most vital-infrastructure things like the courier service, guaranteed currency, etc., would be the nominal purview of the Empire itself, and theoretically outside house politics -- but nobody knows how long this is likely to be the case, and most major Houses are quietly building up their own systems.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[User:Maga|Maga]] 20:23, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td></tr> </table>

Maga https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=542&oldid=prev 2011-05-04T03:23:07Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:23, 3 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*** It seems that, given the state of the Empire, most vital-infrastructure things like the courier service, guaranteed currency, etc., would be the nominal purview of the Empire itself, and theoretically outside house politics -- but nobody knows how long this is likely to be the case, and most major Houses are quietly building up their own systems.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td></tr> </table>

Maga https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=540&oldid=prev 2011-05-04T03:06:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:06, 3 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? [[User:Vimes|Vimes]] 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</div></td></tr> </table>

Vimes https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=537&oldid=prev 2011-05-04T02:56:07Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:56, 3 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller&#039;s.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Millenia ago, when the colonization race was spreading through the galaxy at full tilt, countless human psychics were systematically hunted and slaughtered, during a time now known as the Mind Cleanse.  But legends tell of a handful of heroes, the Psy Shields, who championed the resistance.  A near-constant element of the stories is that the Shields used some sort of technology which could mask psychics from detection, strengthen the abilities of psychics, or possibly even enable non-psychic humans to practice some psychic abilities.  Of course, modern metaneuroscience considers that sort of technology theoretically impossible.  But new information supposedly linked to the Psy Shields (if such people existed) do sometimes gather a good deal of interest among the fanciful, or desperate, powers in the galaxy.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Schep https://inky.org/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Brainstorming&diff=526&oldid=prev 2011-05-03T22:37:41Z

<p>No ansible</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:37, 3 May 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For random thoughts about stuff.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For random thoughts about stuff.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller's.  Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

RogerC