In a message dated 10/21/2002 4:01:17 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< > > We have people doing timelines and aliens, but is > there a bibliography of > > technology? I tried to do one for Piper's > Federation / Empire. I know how > > much work that'd be. > > It could be manageable if the work were broken up. > I bet that a lot of > us have the US paperback edition; if we had 10 > people willing to each do > an assigned chunk of it, we could get it done in a > couple of weeks, easy. > > I'll volunteer to go through 10% of Brightness Reef > if someone tells me which 10% to look at. :) I have the hardback, but could tackle an assigned 10% also. Biblios Rules Maru >> Hmm.... volunteers. This is a long term project. Here is the main reason I want all Jijo and Galactic technology itemized: Dirty tricks. Lets see if we can come up with ideas so weird that even our good Dr. Brin didn't think of them. [And let's also not blab about them outside of the list.] A simple example: Jijo used chemical rockets. Now the Jophur can be expected to set their security devices to sniff out the propellant and explosive. So why not fire pumpkins? Have the Traeki mulch their way to indigestion, or use another means to compress air. Make the cannons out of boo, and "grow" the explosive inside the pumpkin so that it cannot be sniffed until after it explodes. Or would the pumpkin contain the airborne enzymes that incapacitate the master rings? Dirty tricks. If one or two ideas out of fifty are actually used, then we would have done a good job. William Taylor --------------------- "Alla Alla Allaphor In Free!" Hide-n-seek in E-Level hyperspace. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
