Re: [FH] Vectorverse

Laserlight wrote:

>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:35:35PM -0500, laserlight@quixnet.net
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>>>Okay, let's start creating this new, non-Earth-related setting.
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>RBW graciously offered:
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>>If you don't want it to happen here, I'll be happy to host a
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>distinct
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>>mailing list, as always.
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>I'd rather keep it here, since part of the objective is to get wide
>acceptance for an alternate setting, and a wider audience is good.  If
>multiple List members whine about traffic on this thread, then I'd
>take you up on it.
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I agree with this.  Keep it here.  It is after all, based on one of 
Jon's Games...It would be one less list he has to watch.  :-)

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>>I suggest that you try to recruit "nation owners" and "navy owners"
>>(might be the same people) to take responsibility for a section of
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>>world design.
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>Nation owners first; national character (including economy and such)
>will drive the choices the navy makes.  Any takers?
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I think we might need more basic fleshing out first.  By all means out 
there, brew up ideas!
Are we going to have something like:

Major powers/minor powers/everything else.  Ala the FT timeline?
Will these Majors / first teirs be clustered togather? 
Will there be a set number of First Tiers, etc?

Or some other structure?

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>>political philosophies - Nazis/Commies/Revolutionary Frenchmen In
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>>have all been more or less done.
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>Don't know how much "entirely new" stuff we can generate, but hope to
>do a better job of covering the source than, say, Weber did.
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>As long as the writers make an effort to sound original...we should run
it up the flagpole...
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Donald Hosford

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