On Fri, 04 Oct 2019 07:14:44 -0700, "shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml
list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>In the OTU, neither is a big problem. In variant TUs with lots of
>alien starfaring civilizations, it gets a lot weireder until you have
>Vinge's "net of a million lies" from "A Fire Upon the Deep". among
>other lines you *need* stuff like his "Language-path" header as
>messages get translated and re-translated along the way.

And your mention of AFUtD reminds me that he did some excellent
world-building, and I'd love to see Traveller-ized versions of the Tines
('group' mind, but not telepathic) and Skroderiders (no _natural_
short-term memory). At the very least.

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