[GAME] Assemble a Space Station!

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Question 82 [NAMES]
What's the name of this region of space? (I'll roll one on request, but do names need more than a sentence?)

Answer 82
This sector is known as Thinker's Forum, and most of the naming was done in the first survey scouting pass of the 800's.

Question 84 [HIS]
If the Republic settled so many systems, why do they only control three today? (Did many leave with the 43rd in Exile? Separated on their own accord? Is there a 41st Republic floating around?) (5 Sentences)

Answer 84
Despite the grandiloquent titles, there is no direct descendancy from the 1st Terran Republic to the current republics. After a period of dark ages, in 1010 ETR, the 20th Republic arose without an immediate antecedent, and named itself as the ideological successor to the Terran Republic and 18 various other grand yet unconnected republics. Thus the Republics are significant players in this neck of the galaxy, but not major players in the grander scheme. That is to say, they didn't settle such a large number of systems to start with.
(Sorry, I think this dodges the question slightly, and maybe contradicts the Century of Expansion part. Let me come back to this later.)

Question 85 [TL]
85a)
Why was there TL9 tech still around in the 3500s AD? (Referring to UP when it was installed on the station.)
(d6: 3 sentences)

85b)
For that matter, if it's 4102 AD, why is most of the tech TL10, with only precursor stuff at TL11?
(d6: 1 sentence)