Quote:Not the wavetech - the facilities. Wavetech is easy to create (trivial if you accept a shipload of quirks and wonkiness, difficult if you want relatively-quirk-free; "easy" is a middle ground); doing anything with it is going to take time.
The counter complaint seems mostly that wavetech needed extra time to be established.
There's a base on/in Phobos (which is it, BTW?) that's sufficiently developed to have enough "spare" living space to be able to host a Con - that's one of the defining assumptions of the entire setting. Unless that's the whole point of the structure (which it isn't; Phobos is primarily a terraforming base), that kind of luxury construction doesn't happen in four years, even if you've got wavetech. (Heck, it doesn't happen that fast even if you've got Washuu-tech, which definitely doesn't exist in this setting).
Venus has cooled off enough to be able to support life with biochemistry that's compatable with human biochemistry (c.f. the thionite subplot). I have trouble seeing that happen in a decade even with Washuu-tech, but it's established that it's happened with wavetech, so we're stuck with it.
Also, reputations don't grow to the extent that many of the characters have in that short a time. (Unless the people with the reputations work on establishing them, but no character has yet been depicted as a glory-hound.)
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012