[TML] Prototype

[Bruce Johnson]

On Oct 30, 2007, at 6:53 PM, <Traveller at dhimaging.com.au>  
<Traveller at dhimaging.com.au> wrote:

> Is it being suggested that the Villani did not have an original  
> idea in
> thousands of years?  Don't confuse a complicated administrative  
> hierarchy
> with technological stagnation.
>

It's not merely suggested, it's Canon(R) :-)

> What about clothes?  A size 8 from one manufacturer is a Size 6 or  
> 7 from
> another.  Rings - I'm a Size Z+3 in Australia, but a 13 in the States.
> Shoes.  Surely they are the same.  No, wait.  They aren't.
>

Not in the Vilani world.


> Whatever you wish to use in your Traveller universe is between you  
> and your
> God.  That's fine.  But I like to apply a grain of salt of reality  
> to the
> game and make it a richer, more realistic setting.  Things change.   
> Period.
> That's not just a game, it's life.  That's Human Nature.

But many of these people aren't Human, as we know it. The Vilani  
spent a huge part of their prehistory as slaves for a godlike alien  
being, who then went to war with other GAB's which wiped most of them  
out.

They then spent a sizeable chunk of their early recorded history  
building up a civilization that was then squashed like bugs by GAB  
technology. They "originated" on a world where their food will *kill*  
them if they don't prepare it properly. ALL their food.

This will make Human Nature far less of the universal trait you think  
it is.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs