Ace Dreamer Wrote:Hard tech nanotech is in the Whole Fenspace Guide, but was not released. This is a good idea from a meta/story point of view because nanotech really messes with the sorts of stories you can tell. Quite a few people are trying to put the brakes on too early a Singularity, and nanotech is one of the obvious routes there. Quite a few other people want to play with the possibilities of nanotech. As I understand it, the first group is winning, so far.A digression: The in-universe reason why hardtech nanotech wasn't released was because Noah Scott wanted it as a competitive edge for StellviaCorp. If anybody really, really wants to play with nanotech in Fenspace, create a junior-scientist character who works for StellviaCorp out in the Main Belt somewhere, and have at it... but please let me pre-read the stories so I can vet them against the meta-reason why nanotech wasn't released ("trying to put the brakes on too early a Singularity"). The expanded timeline for StellviaCorp that I posted earlier mentions Charles Anderson and Minerva Swansen (later Minerva Swansen-Anderson) - either or both of them would make excellent choices for the junior-scientist role in Season 2, since that's what I intended to do with them anyway.
Back to this story: I'm inclined to allow the Forge. It appears to be sufficiently quirky that it isn't a setting-breaker... and, if it isn't, it can be made to be without disrupting what's already been written.
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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