I'm going to hold onto that because I mentioned that I'd like to run that
adventure here, and of course I've already spilled a bean or two. But
you're correct about temporal proximity, but that is addressed internal to
the storyline.
Thanks for Iiselu/Diaspora. I can clearly remember the process that
brought me there, the color magic marker I used to draw the Jump 2 mains
(green), the place on my wall where it hung, but naturally the
technicality of its name does not stay with the same vividness. We are not
just creatures of the mind, but creatures of physical action with protons
and neutrons.
> I have to ask the worlds that the Hivers "accidentally" destroyed. Was
> that in recent, 'Lets make a "Dawn League" here... Oops! Maybe we'll try
> again just over there." history or are we talking in the distant 'Rule of
> Man' kind of thing?
>
> I ask this because IMO proximity to the events and some kind of direct
> relationship makes all the difference. While it's easy for us to get
> riled up at the Germans over the events and tragedies of WWII, its much
> more difficult to get worked up at the British over the events of say your
> War of Independence. Unless you have some kind of direct familial
> connection, say your great great great grandfather had done something
> special or suffered some horrible fate, the distance through time makes
> the connection much more difficult to make.
>
> BTW the virus starship factory is Iiselu, in Diaspora. I had to look it up
> its been stuck in my brain for ages.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>