On 9/11/21 20:59, James Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com (via
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> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021, 10:26 Alex Goodwin - alex.goodwin at
> multitel.com.au <http://multitel.com.au> (via tml list),
> <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>     On 9/11/21 19:42, James Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com
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>     > I thought that meson guns weren't invented until after Sabmiqys was
>     > contacted?
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>     I may well sit corrected.
>
>     On one hand, Captain E. Random Poorsod did indeed cop it from
>     meson fire
>     in 1367 BC.  Judging from the travwiki article, I guess the Challenge
>     article doesn't give much technological background?
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>     On other hand, what I've cited below actually meshes with your
>     statement
>     - ~3600 years later is still "after".
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>
> Yes, looks like we are both correct!

Imagine my surprise.

> I was working from a recollection of the original article and had
> forgotten just how long Sabmiqys was known about before the 3I made
> contact.

In the Advisoryverse, the canonical 3I will never happen. Its precursor,
the canonical 2I, has been butterflied away thanks ultimately to Milford
et al.  (May he rest in peace - so we know what the bastard's up to.)

As a result, 20,000 worlds.  4,000 years.  And I may need to modify the
plumbing to accommodate flushed bricks.

Alex