(Popping in while a snafu regarding my mother's funeral arrangements gets resolved...)
Okay, this is listed as "RFC", so it doesn't have to happen. Granted, it's a request for comments from the guy who created the setting, so yeah.
Squidleighs: Currently, we're looking at at least two years each way just to go see the neighbours. If this is a go, then all we have to do is find the closest gate to their homeworld, surf through to it, and either meet them at their colony in that system or go visit their homeworld. Travel time drops from years to weeks; that's a major game-changer.
Antarctica: Please, no. I really, really want there to be no hint of "alien astronauts" in humanity's prehistory.
(Snafu resolved; back to more important things than Fenspace)
--
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
Okay, this is listed as "RFC", so it doesn't have to happen. Granted, it's a request for comments from the guy who created the setting, so yeah.
Squidleighs: Currently, we're looking at at least two years each way just to go see the neighbours. If this is a go, then all we have to do is find the closest gate to their homeworld, surf through to it, and either meet them at their colony in that system or go visit their homeworld. Travel time drops from years to weeks; that's a major game-changer.
Antarctica: Please, no. I really, really want there to be no hint of "alien astronauts" in humanity's prehistory.
(Snafu resolved; back to more important things than Fenspace)
--
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