Subject: Re: Information which may be useful in the current situation
To: Bob Schroeck (rms@ourtown.fen)
From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
Date: November 22, 2016
>> Please find attached information related to interuniversal travel and prerequisite skills
>> needed to make use of that information, which was removed from the Whole Fenspace
>> Catalog prior to that database's release.
> Um... thanks? I know I like to write about this stuff, but to have
> "Worldjumping for Dummies" shoved into my hands, that's a bit on the
> scary side. I'd rather hold onto something safer, like 40-year-old
> nukes with decaying trigger mechanisms.
Which is why I kept them under wraps in the first place.
> Fear and panic aside, though, I understand the reasoning here, and I'm
> grateful that you brought us in on this.
Thanks. I was afraid I may have frightened you off... and I *need* the
help of every mage I can find and train.
> Skuld was right, we have a few folks among us who can handle the magical
> side. However, I should also note that two-thirds of the magic-capable
> are among the kids. While we're going to see to their education in that
> regard (a couple more-general instruction manuals from your stash would
> be appreciated, Noah, when the current crisis is over or in a couple
> months, whichever comes first)
Yomiko has access to all of these books, now. Whatever you need, get her
to print and bind in PS238's office.
> the kids are *not* going to be shoved anywhere close to the front
> lines on this.
Good.
> The magegifted adults, on the other hand, are looking forward to
> creating their own little chapter of Warriors Alpha here.
Here's hoping it doesn't come to the point where they'll *need* to
become Warriors Alpha.
> However, let me warn you that from what we can tell so far, magic is
> *not* going to be the quick fix. At best these techniques/rituals/spells
> open tunnels or doorways, just as in the stuff I've written. Quite
> frankly, something on the scale we're facing downbelow is either a
> "Grantville"-type accident caused by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who
> got careless, or it's deity-level action. You may need to break out the
> research theology materials after all, at the very least because we're
> going to want to find a friendly face or two among the celestials to
> help us either way.
How the hell did you know about the research theology texts? No, never
mind - I already know. (Who's more in a story than it's writer, after
all?)
> In the mean time, we've read up on the new tenants of North America, and
> on general principles we're sending Salvage I out to collect some big
> rocks. No dinosaur killers, but a few 10- to 20-tonners will be handy if
> we need to vaporize fascists in a hurry.
Normally, Id try talking you out of the Harsh Mistress solution... but
this situation isn't normal.
> Which reminds me -- what's the reaction from the Australian government
> (outside of the news bites, I mean)?
I don't know. I've tried calling consul Walker three times today, and
I'm not getting any answer. That's beginning to worry me. I *hope*
that's because AusGov hasn't come to any decisions yet.
--
Noah
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in
pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause
worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
--
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
To: Bob Schroeck (rms@ourtown.fen)
From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
Date: November 22, 2016
>> Please find attached information related to interuniversal travel and prerequisite skills
>> needed to make use of that information, which was removed from the Whole Fenspace
>> Catalog prior to that database's release.
> Um... thanks? I know I like to write about this stuff, but to have
> "Worldjumping for Dummies" shoved into my hands, that's a bit on the
> scary side. I'd rather hold onto something safer, like 40-year-old
> nukes with decaying trigger mechanisms.
Which is why I kept them under wraps in the first place.
> Fear and panic aside, though, I understand the reasoning here, and I'm
> grateful that you brought us in on this.
Thanks. I was afraid I may have frightened you off... and I *need* the
help of every mage I can find and train.
> Skuld was right, we have a few folks among us who can handle the magical
> side. However, I should also note that two-thirds of the magic-capable
> are among the kids. While we're going to see to their education in that
> regard (a couple more-general instruction manuals from your stash would
> be appreciated, Noah, when the current crisis is over or in a couple
> months, whichever comes first)
Yomiko has access to all of these books, now. Whatever you need, get her
to print and bind in PS238's office.
> the kids are *not* going to be shoved anywhere close to the front
> lines on this.
Good.
> The magegifted adults, on the other hand, are looking forward to
> creating their own little chapter of Warriors Alpha here.
Here's hoping it doesn't come to the point where they'll *need* to
become Warriors Alpha.
> However, let me warn you that from what we can tell so far, magic is
> *not* going to be the quick fix. At best these techniques/rituals/spells
> open tunnels or doorways, just as in the stuff I've written. Quite
> frankly, something on the scale we're facing downbelow is either a
> "Grantville"-type accident caused by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who
> got careless, or it's deity-level action. You may need to break out the
> research theology materials after all, at the very least because we're
> going to want to find a friendly face or two among the celestials to
> help us either way.
How the hell did you know about the research theology texts? No, never
mind - I already know. (Who's more in a story than it's writer, after
all?)
> In the mean time, we've read up on the new tenants of North America, and
> on general principles we're sending Salvage I out to collect some big
> rocks. No dinosaur killers, but a few 10- to 20-tonners will be handy if
> we need to vaporize fascists in a hurry.
Normally, Id try talking you out of the Harsh Mistress solution... but
this situation isn't normal.
> Which reminds me -- what's the reaction from the Australian government
> (outside of the news bites, I mean)?
I don't know. I've tried calling consul Walker three times today, and
I'm not getting any answer. That's beginning to worry me. I *hope*
that's because AusGov hasn't come to any decisions yet.
--
Noah
"In any confrontation, your goal must be to win. There is no sense in
pursuing a confrontation in a way that will leave you or your cause
worse off than when it began." - J.D Salinger, March 1999
--
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