On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 20:50:38 -0700, Cian Witherspoon
<xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

>One of the more interesting models I saw was EVE Online - lorewise, the
>ansible was made of a paired array of entangled hydrogen atoms that
>transmitted electrical signals between them. This forces a model based
>around a client array onboard, with the service array being connected in a
>server rack to a switchboard. Network topography becomes an important part
>of warfare. The limitations placed on the model drives stories based around
>dealing with them.

This actually sounds about like the way Orson Scott Card made his ansible
work in the Ender Wiggen series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead,
Xenocide, Children of the Mind). I'd have to reread them, but I do seem to
recall that he treated his ansible more like a telegraph, with any
particular device 'connected' to and able to communicate with one and only
one other device.

Thinking about the Ender books reminds me of the thread I provoked on
religion a while back; I'd love to see someone take his Speakers for the
Dead, flesh out the idea where there may be gaps, and write up the result
as a "religion".

A discussion of the Hierarchy of Foreignness as applied to interstellar
relations in Traveller might also have some interesting possibilities.

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