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A society with lightly-regulated FTL would, I believe, survive until the inevitable madman got a hold of one. Then it, and perhaps a lot of others, would be wiped out. The Empire is not willing to find out how long this would take. Quote:
As long as there's some sort of access control device on it that limits it to 'safe' uses? Yeah... how's DRM going? Or locked phones? Anything can be circumvented, with enough care, and just giving everyone nukes makes it certain that someone who shouldn't have one will eventually get one.
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Anything that could (assuming that this is even possible at TL10) would be massively expensive. This means that only the tiniest fraction of humanity could live in one. Quote:
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The 'suitably paranoid' way the Empire has found is to zelously guard the technology of Eichberger drives and watch any research that touches even on the peripheries thereof with gimlet eyes.
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No, but in general high-tech junk has a much higher minimum efficient scale than low-tech junk.
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08-13-2009, 09:29 PM | #46 |
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Umm. That is not the sort of statement that exactly adds to your credibility, you know.
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It sounds like what you want is only the Ultra-Tech segments of the economy, broken into manageable pieces. Yes? |
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Yes. And, strictly speaking, only the ultra-tech pieces that produce tradable goods. Construction, for example, has to be done everywhere.
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