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<BR><BR>> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:05:37 -0600<BR>> From: jwilson@io.com<BR>> To: urth@lists.urth.net<BR>> Subject: Re: (urth) Cumaean???<BR>> <BR>> Pedro Pereira wrote:<BR>> > <<A question I have always wondered is why Typhon didn't equip the<BR>> > Whorl is FTL (Faster than Light) technology. He tells Severain that<BR>> > he would put his capital on another World, and that he could travel<BR>> > between worlds, meaning that he could do so within his lifespan,<BR>> > thus FTL transport. So my idea is that the FTL technology wasn't<BR>> > capable of moving a Whorl sized ship (like the Hero technology could<BR>> > do), or my favorite reason is that Typhon didn't want to educate his<BR>> > colony ships with any more technology than he had to (within<BR>> > reason). He wanted a STL (slower than light) ship so that upon<BR>> > arrival to the new system the ship couldn't start a new rebeling<BR>> > empire that had FTL technology.>><BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > There's no indication that I remember that says that FTL travel is<BR>> > possible. <BR>> <BR>> "'Once I ruled this planet and many more.'"<BR>> "'My physicians, of whom I naturally had the best of many worlds...'"<BR>> "'My astronomers had told me that this sun's activity would decay slowly.'"<BR>> "'...those to whom I had given control of such ships as could reach the <BR>> stars had fled in them...'"<BR>> <BR>> Along with the gravity-bending boat in the mountain, this indicates <BR>> Typhon had access to effects that transcended relativity, (as reversed <BR>> gravity and FTL would both do).<BR><BR>
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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.<BR>
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