Dartz Wrote:...I'm trying to avoid making too many statements on what can and cannot be done in Fenspace, because I seem to be an unofficial second-in-command of the place and I don't want to squelch creativity by sounding like a mod... so I'll just say that this would explain why Doug Sangnoir couldn't discover who made handwavium. If this is true, then nobody "made" handwavium. (It isn't the only possible explanation why Doug's attempt backfired, of course, so don't take this as canon.)
On a related note, I've started to wonder if the wave itself isn't alive in some way. Not like Worm alive - more like something mindless and unmalicious, without any intent. But, as written, it spreads like bacteria. It breaks out. It always finds a way around. It spreads like a lifeform. And everything it does can be explained simply as a survival strategy..... wavium that leads to civilisational annihilation does not spread far, so dies out. Wavium that's useful and gets used by a civilisation, spreads through the galaxy. Like all life, that's all it wants to do. And it works by fucking with the mind and memetics somehow. It doesn't have to be intelligent at all, or guided by an invisible hand beyond simple natural selection. It's a symbiote - a useful one that somehow finagles the guidelines of physics, but still alive and with consequences for the infected. Not something I ever think there should be a ruling on, just a thought I've been having - was planning to introduce is as an opinion of a biologist in a story I've been doing.
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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