Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies

["Robert Mayberry" <robert.mayberry@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

Half of the fun is knowing that the the thing wasn't intended for
this, and yet making it all work out anyway. I'm reminded of Larry
Niven's essay about creating the Mote in G-d's Eye (it's in either
Playgrounds of the Mind or N-Space), and how he extrapolated from a
model a whole series of assumptions about the underlying tech base and
society. In the same way, it's liberating to have some stake in the
ground that you can extrapolate out from. When you get to an
inconsistency, they can actually be revealing, because life is crazy,
too, and the conceptual gymnastics you go through to keep things
together can produce some really cool stuff.

I'm sure at some point we'll find a circle that can't be squared, but
in the meantime it's fun and may even produce something you can use!

Rob


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Ground Zero Games <jon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can I just chime in with a MAJOR caveat here?
>  While all this discussion about fleshing-out the GZG-verse is
>  fascinating (and please don't stop, I love reading this stuff....), I
>  have to state once and for all that I DID NOT work any of this out in
>  any kind of detail when the background was written! It was a piece of
>  fluff to give a framework in which to push lots of little toys around
>  the table - it was written to sound reasonably interesting (I hope)
>  and sometimes amusing (bits of it were done with tongue VERY firmly
>  in cheek...), and to give an excuse for all the different factions
>  that we planned to do minis for to be beating the crap out of each
>  other. We didn't work out any numbers!
>
>  So, please feel free to keep on working the little details out, but
>  be aware that a fair bit of RetConning will be needed, and PLEASE
>  don't ask me why some bits don't fit!!  ;-)
>
>  More power to your thrusters,
>
>  Jon (GZG)
>


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