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Re: [OFFICIAL] Background thoughts...

From: jon@g... (Ground Zero Games)
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 05:13:14 -0400
Subject: Re: [OFFICIAL] Background thoughts...

[snip]
>> 1) We (that is, myself (Jon) and Steve Blease, a friend who
contributed a
>> great deal of the original timeline ideas) wrote the background when
FT was
>> still a small system destined (we thought) to sell most of its copies
>> within the UK; this was long before our distribution deal with GeoHex
to
>> cover the US, and the game was written mainly with the UK market in
mind.
>
>Oh, sure, forgot about us eh? ;-)

No, just didn't think at that time that you'd give us a second glance
against the shelf-fuls of TSR, GDW and all the rest!!! :)
> 
[snip]

>One of the things that I would like to see is an explaination of how
big
>human space is, i.e. how many inhabited planets there are etc.

Well, this is something I've always resisted tying down too closely,
because if we ever to an "exhaustive" planets/colonies list and/or a map
then it really limits players' and scenario writers' possibilities for
introducing their own settings. My own preference is that there are a
handful of Inner Colonies (10-20 systems at the most) the majority of
which
are settled by several different nations - there is a LOT of room on one
planet, look at the one we've got now! Moving outward we have the
Outworlds, which are more numerous (assuming human-explored space to be
an
expanding sphere) but mostly will have only very small settlements,
usually
from one nation, corporation or whatever. Most systems reasonably close
to
Sol will have some kind of settlement, on orbital stations if there is
no
remotely-habitable world insystem. The few real "garden worlds" will, I
think, be quite heavily colonised because they will be quite rare; less
habitable real-estate may have only a few tiny scientific or mining
bases.
Corporations, fringe groups, political/religious refugees etc. may all
have
their own little settlements, which might be in remote regions of the
Inner
Colony worlds or may be true outposts of humanity on the Outworlds.

Jon (GZG)

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