(urth) Cumaean???
Jeff Wilson
jwilson at io.com
Sun Dec 16 18:05:37 PST 2007
Pedro Pereira wrote:
> <<A question I have always wondered is why Typhon didn't equip the
> Whorl is FTL (Faster than Light) technology. He tells Severain that
> he would put his capital on another World, and that he could travel
> between worlds, meaning that he could do so within his lifespan,
> thus FTL transport. So my idea is that the FTL technology wasn't
> capable of moving a Whorl sized ship (like the Hero technology could
> do), or my favorite reason is that Typhon didn't want to educate his
> colony ships with any more technology than he had to (within
> reason). He wanted a STL (slower than light) ship so that upon
> arrival to the new system the ship couldn't start a new rebeling
> empire that had FTL technology.>>
>
>
> There's no indication that I remember that says that FTL travel is
> possible.
"'Once I ruled this planet and many more.'"
"'My physicians, of whom I naturally had the best of many worlds...'"
"'My astronomers had told me that this sun's activity would decay slowly.'"
"'...those to whom I had given control of such ships as could reach the
stars had fled in them...'"
Along with the gravity-bending boat in the mountain, this indicates
Typhon had access to effects that transcended relativity, (as reversed
gravity and FTL would both do).
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