[TML] Two-Space Traveller - Second Call

[Steve Burchett]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Eris Reddoch <erisred at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 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
>

Actually, from my reading of the first book, there is high-tech planetside.
It just can't be taken into two-space. The mistake that caused the Crash on
Earth was taking computers into space, then bringing them back. They brought
an organism that then proceeded to wreck all of the computers and such.
Recovery has proceeded, though, as once everything was "eaten" the organism
died and allowed new stuff to be built. Earth is a haven of high tech.

You just can't take anything above a certain level into two-space. It
degrades rapidly (more rapidly the higher the tech). Oh, and the book does
mention taking printed paper, etc., into two-space to transport plans for
technologies to other worlds. It transports just fine. :)

Steve