OK, I’ve tried to get my thoughts down clearly but I’m not sure I have. However if I don’t post now I’m not sure I will any time soon (because of constant tweaking), so here goes.
The thing people are not noticing is the fact that examinations of the CGM ALSO led to the development of automated wavetech production lines. The problem with delaying the CBM and Biomolding is that the techniques needed to create the wavetech production lines lead quickly to modifying the CGM.
Let’s take A.I. programing for example. In retrospect it was obvious that A.I.s could wave up tech (given the amount of androids even in the early days), so once you can get A.I.s, even the Delta level ones, starting to create wavetech it’s a hop, skip, and a jump to getting them to do it repeatedly. Asmodeus Grey’s genius was extracting the principles of the Julian Friez machine and putting together a fully automated system with specifically programed A.I.s to drive the handwavium.
Once you can program A.I.s to wave up something, it’s much easier to reprogram them to do something else. Once you have THAT, modifying the CGM becomes a short matter of time. (I did mention Fen had obsessive personalities, right?)
Once the Fen have a CGM to examine, someone will note how the same techniques can be used for wavetech production and THAT is such a mind-bogglingly useful function for Fenspace that the factions will throw (not literally) any researcher they can spare at the problem (if they didn’t already). As I put in the fic, the Trekkies got there first as they had more people to throw at it. Once the Fen have working wavetech production lines, I can only see the whole thing cycling back on itself and the researchers applying that knowledge to the CGM.
I can see no realistic way that wavetech production lines can exist, without at the very least a Catboying Machine also existing. Without the former (which I need for a future fic which leads to the Gauntlet fic I am trying, admittedly slowly, to complete) I don’t see the expansion of Fenspace envisaged in the extended Fenspace timeline happening at anywhere near the projected rate, if at all. And once the latter exists I very much doubt the Supers (at the very least) will not follow through and create the Biomolding system.
As to volunteers for development, there are catgirls who would do so even if they weren’t part of the development team.
The other comment I’d like to put out there is my opinion that once a fic is on the wiki it shouldn’t really change. Yes, I know Rob Kelk has modified the first chapter of LoGG but it didn’t really change how the story has gone (at least AFAIK).
M Fnord’s retcon of the Soviets also hasn’t really changed the basis for those fics he’s put on the wiki either.
The problem of rewriting is what it will do to stories depending on them. There is also the fact that stories hang on what is NOT done as much as what IS done. I did suggest a way to limit the Biomolding tech in my previous post (which I’ll admit, makes the CGM even MORE evil if abet unintentionally) as well as in the fic. The CGM and its derivatives the CBM and Puma-ising Machine suffer from the stigma the CGM has, and Biomolding is limited by both how often it can be used and how hard it is to create a framework.
The thing people are not noticing is the fact that examinations of the CGM ALSO led to the development of automated wavetech production lines. The problem with delaying the CBM and Biomolding is that the techniques needed to create the wavetech production lines lead quickly to modifying the CGM.
Let’s take A.I. programing for example. In retrospect it was obvious that A.I.s could wave up tech (given the amount of androids even in the early days), so once you can get A.I.s, even the Delta level ones, starting to create wavetech it’s a hop, skip, and a jump to getting them to do it repeatedly. Asmodeus Grey’s genius was extracting the principles of the Julian Friez machine and putting together a fully automated system with specifically programed A.I.s to drive the handwavium.
Once you can program A.I.s to wave up something, it’s much easier to reprogram them to do something else. Once you have THAT, modifying the CGM becomes a short matter of time. (I did mention Fen had obsessive personalities, right?)
Once the Fen have a CGM to examine, someone will note how the same techniques can be used for wavetech production and THAT is such a mind-bogglingly useful function for Fenspace that the factions will throw (not literally) any researcher they can spare at the problem (if they didn’t already). As I put in the fic, the Trekkies got there first as they had more people to throw at it. Once the Fen have working wavetech production lines, I can only see the whole thing cycling back on itself and the researchers applying that knowledge to the CGM.
I can see no realistic way that wavetech production lines can exist, without at the very least a Catboying Machine also existing. Without the former (which I need for a future fic which leads to the Gauntlet fic I am trying, admittedly slowly, to complete) I don’t see the expansion of Fenspace envisaged in the extended Fenspace timeline happening at anywhere near the projected rate, if at all. And once the latter exists I very much doubt the Supers (at the very least) will not follow through and create the Biomolding system.
As to volunteers for development, there are catgirls who would do so even if they weren’t part of the development team.
The other comment I’d like to put out there is my opinion that once a fic is on the wiki it shouldn’t really change. Yes, I know Rob Kelk has modified the first chapter of LoGG but it didn’t really change how the story has gone (at least AFAIK).
M Fnord’s retcon of the Soviets also hasn’t really changed the basis for those fics he’s put on the wiki either.
The problem of rewriting is what it will do to stories depending on them. There is also the fact that stories hang on what is NOT done as much as what IS done. I did suggest a way to limit the Biomolding tech in my previous post (which I’ll admit, makes the CGM even MORE evil if abet unintentionally) as well as in the fic. The CGM and its derivatives the CBM and Puma-ising Machine suffer from the stigma the CGM has, and Biomolding is limited by both how often it can be used and how hard it is to create a framework.