... small ... Concord ... takes ... Umm... Highport Station is (was?) completely owned and maintained by the Library of Man. Private industies native to...
... Though we could simply be talking about different parts of the station. LoM has some chunk of it; at other times it's been noted as a fleet base for the...
... as a ... of as the ... umm... Speaking as the former advocate for Concord, I never spoke of it as a fleet base for the 5N... deliberately. Concord sold the...
A point to add to the fun/confusion... Not a single thing says the point has to be a single station. In fact, (and if my memory is correct) there was some...
Kirk Spencer
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Jun 1, 2004 7:35 pm
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... I've got no problem with it being multiple stations. ... James Sterrett & Corinne Mahaffey jscm@......
... I hate to say it Kirk but I think that would actually detract from the confusion. :) If we're calling the entire cluster of stations "Highport" and XC ...
*grin* "Umm, Sir? The **** have seized the Highpoint LoM station." "So?" "Sir, it's the library. You know, the place where if you have enough money you can...
Kirk Spencer
kspencer@...
Jun 1, 2004 8:29 pm
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... "Great! Send in the looting teams, we want to know everything they know!" The LoM is one of the less believable aspects of the setting......
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:39:04PM -0700, Anthony Jackson distributed foul capitalist propaganda: [...] ... "Erm. Sir. It's, like, encrypted. And they seem to...
... "Very well. Evacuate all the people and destroy the station, and inform the Library that they're no longer welcome anywhere within our space." ... The...
re believability... (hmm, if we go on this needs to go to philosophy, but I'll do it here for just a moment). The blackmail aspect is, well, actually it's...
Spencer, Kirklin
kspencer@...
Jun 1, 2004 11:20 pm
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I'm assuming that by now, everyone who's replied has gotten their briefing packets from Mark, and that Mark is fielding any questions he can. Any other...
... Hello, Ken, Ch Ab here, I've signed up to his group. May I have the background material as well? I've tried to download the material available online, but...
The "right-click to download" technique doesn't work on most of the stuff in the files section. I just let the .doc files open in my word processor and then...
Folks: I am going to have to bow out of my assignment of being a junior advocate for XC before I have begun... My parent's are in poor health and they are in...
If Fred Barrell doesn't show up soon, I need someone to take his place running XC. Much assistance can be provided -- Ben Lehman is willing to be the second...
Ken, I've just joined this group, but am interested. Before i jump in, what are the responsibilities of an Advocate? How much time is required? What sort of...
... what are the responsibilities of an Advocate? How much time is required? What sort of deadlines do you need to meet?Incidentally, I've got some Chinese...
The first ever extrasolar Containment Policy.
But an isolated XC doesn't make for interesting story telling.
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