(urth) Cumaean???

[Pedro Pereira]

> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:05:37 -0600> From: jwilson at io.com> To: urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Cumaean???> > 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).
 
Couldn't he be traveling through Ysod instead, like the Tzadskiel ship? That would require no FTL speed and the results could be similarly satisfactory.
 
Pedro
 
 
 
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