Didn't we have this discussion a couple of years ago?
I seem to remember a whole lot of ideas planned out for a "cold war" between Earth and the Convention, with scenes like a USAF patrol being shadowed by a VVS patrol to echo the US/USSR patrol flights of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the stations (maybe Stellvia - I think this was before we populated the L5 point) becoming a latter-day Vienna... and nobody ever actually wrote anything with the ideas.
Exploration, OTOH, is something that actually generates stories, as both Mal and Dartz have shown.
If I'm remembering this correctly, then I have a big meta objection to this: It will stifle creativity in the setting.
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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
I seem to remember a whole lot of ideas planned out for a "cold war" between Earth and the Convention, with scenes like a USAF patrol being shadowed by a VVS patrol to echo the US/USSR patrol flights of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the stations (maybe Stellvia - I think this was before we populated the L5 point) becoming a latter-day Vienna... and nobody ever actually wrote anything with the ideas.
Exploration, OTOH, is something that actually generates stories, as both Mal and Dartz have shown.
If I'm remembering this correctly, then I have a big meta objection to this: It will stifle creativity in the setting.
--
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