Re: [fh ot] Re: [GZG][FH] Planet types (was Re: Locations of Stars)

Thomas Anderson wrote:

> what follows is NOT a poke at john atkinson. it is a defence of
diversity.
> 
> i'm not sure that splitting all the power up into two blocs is a good
> idea. in fact i think it is cryingly daft. the whole point of the gzg
> background is that it is a general melee in which *any* conflict is
more
> or less possible. there are almost no allies, just partners in crime
who
> will turn on one another in the time it takes to say Tsukada's
constant.
> the corollary of this is that there are also no impossible alliances.
this
> whole two power bloc thing is just a replay of the cold war or a world
> war; been there, done that. maybe during the solar wars this was the
case,
> but in the hot peaces in between there will be conflicts on all sides,
nac
> vs nsl vs fse vs nac.

Which is another way of making my point (but from the other direction)
that everyone has some long-standing enemies--the NRE taking shots at
three other nations doesn't make the background any more nor less
chaotic nor war-ridden then it is already.

John M Atkinson