I'll concede your point about the Spacebattles crossover being built in - really, any setting where you have an official military decoration for surviving ground zero of a nuclear or antimatter weapon in a present or near-future setting has the correct attitude to qualify. As for the need to not have been on Darhel radar despite long-term surveillance, well, that's why a round dozen of the suggestions are groups who maintain more or less of an illusion of not existing to the rest of the world. (That's not counting the God Emperor of Man, though I think he stayed low-key for at least a few thousand years too, didn't he?) Admittedly, others on that list, not so much.
And most likely, my DC on Aldenata Earth got et, too. As for the Aldenata themselves, the bits involving them are too few and far between for me to have cared, really. Sure, they left a big mess, but they aren't exaclty around to snack with a rolled up newspaper and make them clean it up, and pointing the finger doesn't help at this late date either. Ultimately, it's not a setting I'm worried about if a fun idea breaks it, because there are few ways to make it worse in the breaking.
- CD, considers Ringo an okay writer when he's got coauthors to keep the gratuitous body count down but not the stuff of legends
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
And most likely, my DC on Aldenata Earth got et, too. As for the Aldenata themselves, the bits involving them are too few and far between for me to have cared, really. Sure, they left a big mess, but they aren't exaclty around to snack with a rolled up newspaper and make them clean it up, and pointing the finger doesn't help at this late date either. Ultimately, it's not a setting I'm worried about if a fun idea breaks it, because there are few ways to make it worse in the breaking.
- CD, considers Ringo an okay writer when he's got coauthors to keep the gratuitous body count down but not the stuff of legends
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows