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The legendary Terran homeworld (Re: Prototype Starship Bible Work-in-Progress)
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Tue, 13 May 2003 03:46:34 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, John Henry Kruer writes:
Mmm, I think starting from the very beggining is a bit risky since some
people's version of what happened might differ from other's.  For example,
many people's organisations would of evolved from an official Earth
goverment in stress, and there would be many different versions of the world
government fleeing or staying on Earth.  The Outer Rim does not have that
problem, being a totally different type of sector, but many others might have.

IF we do such a thing, I think it may be satisfactory to work BACKWARDS, not
forwards, describing the galaxy today and maybe going back to the time of
late initial space exploration, so as to reduce conflicts.

What do you guys think about this?

-JHK

Very tricky, so that at the end of our historical record, in the dimly lit
and dusty farthest reaches of our history, we may well disagree on where
Earth actually is or what happened on it.

Indeed, I bet some folks would happily wage war over their particular
telling of the origins :-)

Richard
Still baldly going...



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  Re: The legendary Terran homeworld (Re: Prototype Starship Bible Work-in-Progress)
 
Well, I purposely started in 2050 that way maybe we dodged a couple of disagreements. And my Terran history pertains only to North America until Earth explodes. I did that also so that other people who started on Earth could make up storylines for (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)

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Mmm, I think starting from the very beggining is a bit risky since some people's version of what happened might differ from other's. For example, many people's organisations would of evolved from an official Earth goverment in stress, and there (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship)

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