On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

I would tend to agree esp after all those centuries, even in the S'Marches, of contact/membership w/ the 3I.

Which is why I have divided the canon timeline by a factor of five IMTU. This makes the "there are still numerous backwater, low-tech worlds" meme make sense.

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