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On Tue, 11/3/15, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Re: [CotI] News from Traveller and FFE
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 12:24 PM

 On Tue,
 Nov 3, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:

 #2 "Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the
 Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of
 empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more
 people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a
 hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they
 re-activate his recorded personality whenever a new threat
 appears. When the crisis is over, they expect he will meekly
 return to oblivion."

 [Does the 3I even have this capability c1100 & TL15 much
 less 400 years earlier?]

 T5
 puts wafer tech at TL13, with "experimental" much
 earlier than that.
 I'd put
 "destructive scanning" in the 
 "experimental" category

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Funny thing, I would've thought that it would be a lot more prominent by 1100?
(Yeah, I know, just another instance of a 're-do' that 'undoes' things too)
Maybe the novel will include the emperor who tried to go on forever?
Or maybe he/they have been for who knows how long?
Wasn't the 3I at TL12 at inception?

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