Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Jeff Zeitlin 28 May 2020 19:12 UTC
On Thu, 28 May 2020 13:16:41 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote to Freelance Traveller: >Jeff didn't mention Jump drive, he said star-faring. I should have specified "FTL" - even if you can build and man a _Slow Train to Arcturus_ (Eric Flint and Dave Freer; Baen Books, 2008), I wouldn't consider that to make you a "starfaring race". More specifically, a race isn't a 'starfaring race' until they're doing it FTL for fun and profit - mere exploration doesn't cut it; commercial exploitation is the key. >Jeff, can you be more specific? Was the question about starfaring generally >or Jump-drive driven star-faring? Definitely FTL, and I believe I used the word 'canonically', and being a starfaring race doesn't require that you have contacted intelligences not from your world. I'd also say that the astrographical limitation should be assumed to be more-or-less Charted Space - a civilization on the other side of the galaxy is irrelevant to the underlying purpose of the question. ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2020. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)