Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies
From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@p...>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:38:51 -0400
Subject: Re: [GZG] FTverse colinies
Robert Mayberry wrote:
> Another issue is control.
>
> Right now, we're making the costs of journalism so low that the best
> reporting often comes from citizen journalists on the scene filing
> dispatches onto their blogs. In the grim future of the Tuffleyverse,
> the situation has been reversed.
Indeed. The speed of communication also limits the maximum size of
an empire. Though the FT stardrive is fast enough that the empire
could be pretty big.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3ac.html#empires
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