Yeah, what Alan said! (And which Mike also said)
> In Traveller, life doesn't have to develop independently. Between the
> Ancients, the Vilani, and all the other interstellar civilisations that
> have been hanging, there's a fair chance that most of the worlds in
> Charted Space are parkland rather than wilderness. That is, they have been
> modified, "terra"formed and otherwise messed with to a degree that allows
> all kinds of handwaving.
>
> While it's a vastly different order of magnitude, the European settlements
> in both Australia and the Americas both occurred in landscapes that had
> been radically modified by their previous inhabitants. That is, they had
> already been "terraformed" to a remarkable degree.
>
> ---In , <mjwest@...> wrote :
> If I remember right, the problem with both giants and main sequence stars
> O,B,A is that they just donât last the couple billion years required
> for life to develop. That said, it isnât as necessary to worry about
> the giants, as a few habitable worlds around a giant is cool for the type
> of SF that is Traveller.
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> In Traveller, life doesn't have to develop independently. Between the
> Ancients, the Vilani, and all the other interstellar civilisations that
> have been hanging, there's a fair chance that most of the worlds in
> Charted Space are parkland rather than wilderness. That is, they have been
> modified, "terra"formed and otherwise messed with to a degree that allows
> all kinds of handwaving.
>
> While it's a vastly different order of magnitude, the European settlements
> in both Australia and the Americas both occurred in landscapes that had
> been radically modified by their previous inhabitants. That is, they had
> already been "terraformed" to a remarkable degree.
>
> ---In , <mjwest@...> wrote :
> If I remember right, the problem with both giants and main sequence stars
> O,B,A is that they just donât last the couple billion years required
> for life to develop. That said, it isnât as necessary to worry about
> the giants, as a few habitable worlds around a giant is cool for the type
> of SF that is Traveller.
>
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