STL vs FTL

Jeff Wilson · 22 Dec 2007, 05:01 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:01:52 -0600
Subject: (urth) STL vs FTL
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Josh Young wrote:
> I might have missed the answer to this in the previous threads, (been 
> busy and not following the threads) but I never got the feeling that 
> Typhon's era had FTL at all-- I had assumed that FTL travel, from Urth, 
> was part of the machine empire that existed in the distant past, and 
> that Typhon was definitely post-machine era.

Possible - Typhon's "dry" dialogue indicates he is familiar with some 
form of suspended animation that might allow STL travel between multiple 
stars by a particular person, but there still needs to be time for the 
news of Typhon's need to travel to many worlds and the various doctors 
from each of them to travel back with enough time left to perform the 
procedure.  Typhon's natural lifetime could have been extended by divers 
means, but given his face orientation, it seems unlikely he would have 
hibernated while on Urth, waiting for the physicians to arrive.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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