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Re: Starship Bible (was: Types of Sectors)
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Tue, 6 May 2003 19:22:31 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, John P. Henderson writes:
> [1] This reminds me of the backstory to things like Traveller or Battlestar
> Galactica, where human colonists became so disconnected over time, that they
> are unaware of their true origins, yet somehow when the begin again to
> explore space they find more humans everywhere.
I actually suggested an idea like this on the original Starship Spraw board. I
offered it as an explanation for having multiple "Earths", but I was unaware
this idea was used anywhere else. Well, maybe I suspected it. It's
interesting to see how people can arrive at the same
conclusions/ideas/inspirations completely independently.
~Andrew~
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| (...) Yes, it is interesting sometimes. ...FYI, in the game Traveller, the premise is that all the humans descended from earlier space explorers from Earth, but that thousands (millions?) of years have passed since they colonized the distant worlds (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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| (...) Yup. :) Already, it would have been easy to miss Richard's post to this thread (buried deeply on the other board), but here it is easy to notice. ...I am just waking up, so I may reply more to this later... A few initial thoughts: (...) I (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)
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