Alien Clay
Timothy Collinson
(22 Sep 2024 15:52 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
James Catchpole
(22 Sep 2024 16:57 UTC)
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Canons [was: Re: [TML] Alien Clay]
Timothy Collinson
(22 Sep 2024 20:33 UTC)
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Re: Canons [was: Re: [TML] Alien Clay]
James Catchpole
(22 Sep 2024 20:54 UTC)
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Re: Canons [was: Re: [TML] Alien Clay]
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(23 Sep 2024 09:19 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(23 Sep 2024 08:15 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Timothy Collinson
(23 Sep 2024 18:57 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(24 Sep 2024 04:22 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Richard Aiken
(24 Sep 2024 14:38 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Richard Aiken
(24 Sep 2024 14:40 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(24 Sep 2024 15:25 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Rupert Boleyn
(24 Sep 2024 20:47 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(25 Sep 2024 01:08 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(25 Sep 2024 23:01 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(26 Sep 2024 00:12 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Richard Aiken
(26 Sep 2024 01:10 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Brett Kruger
(26 Sep 2024 01:56 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(26 Sep 2024 15:42 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(26 Sep 2024 15:35 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Richard Aiken
(26 Sep 2024 16:00 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Richard Aiken
(26 Sep 2024 16:01 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(26 Sep 2024 16:52 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay Rupert Boleyn (26 Sep 2024 21:56 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(26 Sep 2024 23:28 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(27 Sep 2024 00:23 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(27 Sep 2024 00:07 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Rupert Boleyn
(27 Sep 2024 00:41 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(27 Sep 2024 14:43 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(28 Sep 2024 00:18 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(28 Sep 2024 01:18 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Rupert Boleyn
(26 Sep 2024 21:41 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(26 Sep 2024 23:24 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(27 Sep 2024 00:20 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(27 Sep 2024 23:45 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(28 Sep 2024 01:09 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(26 Sep 2024 23:33 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Rupert Boleyn
(27 Sep 2024 00:24 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(27 Sep 2024 00:31 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Rupert Boleyn
(27 Sep 2024 00:44 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(26 Sep 2024 23:18 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(27 Sep 2024 00:17 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Rupert Boleyn
(27 Sep 2024 00:21 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
kaladorn@xxxxxx
(27 Sep 2024 23:48 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Alien Clay
Phil Pugliese
(28 Sep 2024 01:14 UTC)
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On 27Sept2024 0452, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) wrote: > In an environment as necessarily paranoid as you describe the need for > effective security & counter-measures would be even greater. > Dulinor's gun would definitely have been detected. > (Say, my lord, whatcha' got a gun for?) That's explicitly dealt with - he had the ceremonial right to be armed in the presence of the Emperor. But, back to my original point - with the Emperor dead, unlike back in the first Civil War, where by and large everyone thought that the Imperium was a good idea, and most worlds seemed happy to stay members and let the admirals fight it out to see who sat on the throne, by 1116 things had got to the point where everyone asked 'Why stay?', and there was no good answer. Then Lucan (and later some others) started demanding worlds have loyalty not to 'the Imperium', but to the leader personally, and started bombing worlds that had aided the 'enemy' (even if they'd done so because it had a fleet in-system. I'm suggesting that corruption had a good deal to do with this. It sucks the profit out of trade, makes doing any business be it personal or for the state slow and expensive, and if not aggressively stamped out it tends to spread, because the only way to make your way in life rapidly becomes to become corrupt yourself. In particular it kills off the little guys, and the new guys, so the megacorps manage (and frankly were always part of a corrupt system), the great noble families manage, the hi-pop hi-TL worlds manage (but become increasingly insular, with less and less external trade), but the free traders, the little feeder companies, and the worlds that aren't hi-pop powerhouses never get to improve. Why be part of the Imperium if you're going to be stuck at TL5-7 and a few million population, with your best and brightest leaving year on year and never coming back? So the Imperium stumbles along, largely on inertia and because the frontier sectors *do* still see value in remaining, until some 'bright' 'reformer' thinks they can do a better job, and promotes themselves in a thoroughly illegal manner, and the heir apparent then confirms his position in an illegal manner, and the wheels come off. -- Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>