On 05Jul2023 1117, David Johnson - piperfan at zarthani.net (via tml
list) wrote:

>
> I am not a fan of Virus. In my opinion, as a storytelling device, it was
> a disaster. (Though there has been at least one successful effort to
> recover from that disaster:
> https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/reviews/comstar/tne1248spinstates.html <https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/reviews/comstar/tne1248spinstates.html>.)

Whereas I think the setting that came out of that decision (the
RCES/Regency 1201 period) was great, and I was thoughly underwhelmed by
the 1248 extension. To me it read as "Ten millienia of empires and their
catastrophic wars and collapses weren't enough, so let's have More Empire!"

--
Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>