Why would not the traditional wizard robe colors be a hold-over from the uniforms used by two different philosophies pursued by the ancients? Sort of like the Vorlons and the Shadows from B5 but with a third 'balance' or 'undecided' group. You have the 'strength through conflict' and the 'strength through cooperation' schools, and anyone chooses one of those paths for acquiring access to the ancients technology(probably some long-life wireless power-sources buried around the planet to power each of the three 'factions').
The Ancients just up and vanished while this whole thing was being hashed out, leaving their foot-soldiers fighting a war that has become without meaning just because that is what they were designed to do. (intelligent non-humans could all of course be manufactured races) This would have no real impact on what happened in the books, just on some of the forgotten background thereof. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Johannes Trimmel <[email protected]> wrote: > > ME magic would be way above what can be done with Traveller Imperium > technology (and thus also above what the Villani could do). It could be > Ancients-Technology. You'd need some explaination, why just certain > technology survived, and it will not be trivial to get one that can suspend > disbelieve. > > Propably more important ME background has something like an alignment system > (for instance see the changing of the colors of robes of magicans), while > Traveller has not. Either you have to hack alignments into Traveller, or you > need to declare ME alignments as not what they apreare to be. Either way you > butcher one setting. > > > One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > Johannes Trimmel > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society. -Edmund Burke _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
