On Thu, 28 May 2020 13:16:41 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

>Jeff didn't mention Jump drive, he said star-faring.

I should have specified "FTL" - even if you can build and man a _Slow Train
to Arcturus_ (Eric Flint and Dave Freer; Baen Books, 2008), I wouldn't
consider that to make you a "starfaring race".

More specifically, a race isn't a 'starfaring race' until they're doing it
FTL for fun and profit - mere exploration doesn't cut it; commercial
exploitation is the key.

>Jeff, can you be more specific? Was the question about starfaring generally
>or Jump-drive driven star-faring?

Definitely FTL, and I believe I used the word 'canonically', and being a
starfaring race doesn't require that you have contacted intelligences not
from your world.

I'd also say that the astrographical limitation should be assumed to be
more-or-less Charted Space - a civilization on the other side of the galaxy
is irrelevant to the underlying purpose of the question.

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