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Date Posted: 14:40:24 07/16/01 Mon
Author: Morgan
Subject: Comments>

An excellent discussion, I must say, and all of these things are important. As for technology, here's my take on the subject:

If a colony ship landed and got stranded on a foreign planet, than we can deduce a few things: We have a partial society, i.e. we have humans, but not necessarily all the techonologically aware humans, but some. We have some technology, to have a space ship and to fly and such things. However, we don't necessarily have the plans or the inventors on board, so we must replicate if we want to build another. Any changes or improvements are based on trial and error, and so takes more time than it would had we had the existing technology to work with. For instance, if you and 5 of your friends were stranded somewhere with your computer, you'd have the computer, but not necessarily the know-how or the supplies to build another, much less improve on the one you've got. Even if one of you or your friends knew how to build computers, you'd still require supplies to build one. Eventually the society would evolve enough to improve and invent, but it would take time, even hundreds of years. And as to the lack of development 400 years ago, that was considered the Dark Ages because everyone just sat around and forgot all they had learned before. The romans had aqueducts and indoor plumbing in about the yeasr 200 or 300, but once the fall of the roman empire, everyone forgot that and was reduced to hauling water for over the next thousand years. They had little to no technological advancement during that time with a few exceptions. After the Dark Ages, when people started thinking and learning, technology increased rapidly.

Enough of my babbling about that. The discussion is going great, I think, is there anything you need my imput on? I have found after running all these games, that it works best if I let you all decide the rules that seem fair. I don't want to restrict too much, but than again, undisciplined RPing can get dangerous. Sorry. No more from me.

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