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* If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller's. Might be worthwhile from a game perspective. | * If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller's. Might be worthwhile from a game perspective. | ||
** 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) | ** 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) | ||
*** 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. | *** 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) | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
Revision as of 23:23, 3 May 2011
For random thoughts about stuff.
- If we restrict communication speed to lightspeed, then we get a courier system similar to Traveller's. Might be worthwhile from a game perspective.
- Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? Vimes 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)
- 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.Maga 20:23, 3 May 2011 (PDT)
- Possibly a guild system for the couriers, outside the house politics by general agreement of the houses? Vimes 20:06, 3 May 2011 (PDT)
- 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.
