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Re: Reboot THS
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A SAI/ghost can operate in almost any environment, by changing bodies. Even if it's a sole executionist, that's only a minor impediment, it can still change bodies by running on a computer module can be physically switched from one body to another. They are tougher, faster, at least theoretically ageless and immortal, they can access information with an ease and convenience no other entity can match, etc. It doesn't really matter if they have any desire to do so or not, you would logically expect it to happen simply from weight of superiority. They ought to utterly dominate the setting, but they don't. Dominating the setting would be problematic from a meta POV, but so is the lack of any reason why they don't.
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01-03-2020, 10:49 AM | #22 |
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Re: Reboot THS
I suppose it depends on what you think the core identity of Transhuman Space is. Is it the transhuman parts? is it about the space colonization? I'm not so sure. Granted, I haven't played with it much, but the parts that stick out to me aren't about transhumans in space. Its about ubiqitous computing, memeplexes, and flirting with the early transhuman boundaries.
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01-03-2020, 10:57 AM | #23 | |
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01-03-2020, 11:19 AM | #24 |
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Re: Reboot THS
That's very much my feeling. It's one thing to say, "We're going to have a new and different transhumanist setting." It's a different thing to say, "We're going to have a new version of Transhuman Space." THS is not reducible to an abstract theme; it has a whole lot of very concrete individuating features that make it a unique entity. And if it's showing its age, well, works of art do that. Why should we assume we have to be able to go on doing a future based on transhumanism, any more than we have to be able to go on doing one with habitable Mars and Venus, or one with superhuman mutants?
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01-03-2020, 12:06 PM | #25 |
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Re: Reboot THS
It's named 'Transhuman Space'. Anything that removes either of those is no longer Transhuman Space.
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01-03-2020, 04:50 PM | #26 |
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Re: Reboot THS
I suppose I wasn't thinking of actually doing away with the transhuman and space elements of the setting. I was thinking more of emphasizing the things THS did well rather than the parts were it didn't "go far enough"
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