STL vs FTL

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 22 Dec 2007, 06:48 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:48:18 +1100
Subject: (urth) STL vs FTL
Message-ID: <20071222064819.53AC2D0038 at mailserver10.hushmail.com>



On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:14:07 +1100 Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> 
wrote:
>thalassocrat at nym.hush.com wrote:
>> 
>> And also: how could he have been the ruler of many worlds 
>without 
>> some kind of FTL travel? 
>
>The way it was done by rules from Alexander to Victoria: by proxy 
>through stationary vassals, the individual territories garrisoned 
>with 
>loyal forces superior to any the locals are likely to raise.

How does that work with travel times of perhaps hundreds of years?

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