Quote:If we're that close, then terraforming their homeworld will be an easier job than terraforming venus or Mars... and vice versa. ("It may be a frozen, twilight, desert hell, but we can qxn$rk-form it in a few decades...") We're going to have to come up with a few in-story reasons why the extremists on both sides wouldn't be allowed to try some planetary engineering of the other race's homeworlds.
Close enough to visit, similar enough to get each other's dirty jokes, not really interested in setting up shop on each other's real estate.
Quote:I've got an idea for an engineer (maybe not the chief engineer, but I'll let other folks decide). I don't have time to write her up right now, though - maybe later this evening.
BTW, does anyone want to create a character to be aboard the Miranda? All I really have is the captain and the AI, who is also the Rec Deck computer and "hologramatic" Astrogation officer.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012