04-25-2019, 07:05 PM | #31 | |
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Re: What do you think the Long Night was like?
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04-25-2019, 09:39 PM | #32 |
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Re: What do you think the Long Night was like?
The problem is this...
During a time period in which there are no seeming "empires" in evidence (during the Long Night), what happens to the trade? Most importantly - the duration of the Long Night suggests that there was no "unified" government anywhere. There used to be (in the form of the First Imperium), then there wasn't. It is the "then there wasn't" Phase that is not so clear. How difficult would it have been to strike up a NEW pocket empire after say, 500 years time? If they had starports capable of building new ships, they would have built the new ships. If they had new ships constantly being built, they would have expanded their trade venues, and thus, become a pocket empire. What kept them from becoming MORE than just a pocket empire and become the new Third Imperium instead of having to wait until the Sylean Empire does just that? |
04-25-2019, 09:41 PM | #33 | |
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Re: What do you think the Long Night was like?
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It's a wholly unrealistic model given a modern vantage point; but that's because it's a future from the past. Our own literature is likely to look similarly short-sighted in fifty years or so.
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04-25-2019, 10:21 PM | #34 | |
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Re: What do you think the Long Night was like?
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We know there were pocket empires: The Sylean Federation, the Chanestin Kingdom, the Terran Mercantile Community / Old Earth Union, the Dingir League, the worlds of the Vilani Main, the Geonee Confederation, the Suerrat Republic, the Lancian League, the Vegan Polity, the Darmine Corporate, the Luriani Protectorate, the Sydymic Empire, the Zeda Alignment, and perhaps the Dynchia Comitia. And, no doubt, others as yet uninvented and uninserted into canon. Why did none of them burst forth and establish a grand empire as did Vland and then Sylea? Most simply, because the story requires that it be so. Or perhaps, for the same reason that the "First Reich" of the Romans, "Second Reich" of the Holy Roman Empire, and "Third Reich" of the Nazis, or the Napoleonic Empire, were oddities rather than common occurrences among all European countries. Europe has never been dominated by Romanians, or Serbs, or Walloons. Why not, we might ask? Simply because, through accidents of location, resources, history, and culture, they never became imperial powers. Why shouldn't it be the same in the imaginary history of Traveller?
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