Trent Shipley wrote: > >> No!!! The uplift process can be long or short, but the indenture period >> is fixed. > > Note, I am working off of SeJ's Uplift 2nd ed. I don't think DB has (or > would need to) develop this little theme. Still, for myself it would be > nice to have this bit of background pinned down. > Ok, but one of the "useful" purposes of these discussions is that we may find contradictions in the Canon and the Deuterocanon, so that the next editions can be a little better, isn't it? :-)
> Alberto, your reading of the text that there are basically four gross > phases of maturity (pre-uplift, uplift, indenture, full-maturity) seems > reasonable. Even so, I do not think it was what SeJ intended. I think that > the uplift stage (stages 1-5), minor client, and indenture are all meant to > be used as synonyms. On Uplift 2nd ed p82 SeJ talks about indenture--that > is to say being a minor client--in general. On p83 his intent is not to > talk about a different stage in a species life-cycle, instead he just goes > into more specific detail about what he just discussed on p82. > I know. It seems that the indeture phase is coincident with the uplift phase. [evidences omitted] I agree with your interpretation of GURPS Uplift. But I still think that the indenture phase should be _another_ phase. Uplift is considered a service that the patron does to the client, so this must be followed by the indenture, that is way of paying back. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
