[TML] Two-Space Traveller - Second Call

[Eris Reddoch]

Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:02:59 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> A precis of the setting might be nice.
> 
>> I liked 1889, and I like Traveller, but that tells me nothing about the 
>> setting except in the most oblique terms.
> 
> It's rather difficult to describe succinctly.
> 
> Basically, though, it postulates an alternative method of interstellar
> travel that really is "Age of Sail", in a very literal sense, and
> because of the nature of the interstellar travel medium, technology is
> restricted to Victorian or pre-Victorian levels for interstellar use -
> and because of a knock-on effect defined by the authors, high-tech on a
> planet, while perfectly possible, is potentially extremely vulnerable to
> a TNE-type crash, so many planets elect 'retroculture' and voluntarily
> restrict even planetbound technology to pre-Great War levels.

Jeff, I never really understood how planetside technology was threatened 
by 2-space, so I always scratched my head at the retrotech cultures. I 
guess you couldn't export/import high-tech due to 2-space, but you could 
spread the knowledge that would allow each world to develop it's on 
higher-tech society.  OTOH, I'm perfectly willing to suspend my doubts 
and "go low" in an RPG. :)

Eris