The Cosmo Dragoons

[robkelk]

Or, is this a "Don't ask this question about the Fenspace setting" question?

No, it's a good question.

So far, the best answers involve variations of Dartz's answer - doing something this way is more expensive and less reliable than doing it fully-hardtech or fully-wavetech, so it's the province of a very few "makers" rather than being a standard operating procedure.
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Rob Kelk
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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