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Old 03-05-2013, 12:00 PM   #49
Hans Rancke-Madsen
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Default Re: Where's the Helium?

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
...the Traveller concept of tech level isn't credible for a setting with trade (Traveller has significant narrative roots in the cinematic British Empire, with Brave Explorers heading into Darkest Africa to encounter Primitive Tribes and amaze them with Advanced Technology, but it doesn't make sense in a thousand year old empire which hasn't expanded its borders for hundreds of years).
If it's good enough for Poul Anderson, Beam Piper, and Jack Vance, it's good enough for me.


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