Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Jeff Zeitlin (28 May 2020 11:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Alex Goodwin (28 May 2020 11:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Thomas Jones-Low (28 May 2020 12:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (28 May 2020 17:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Jeff Zeitlin (28 May 2020 19:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Thomas Jones-Low (28 May 2020 20:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Jeff Zeitlin (28 May 2020 20:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Thomas Jones-Low (28 May 2020 20:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Kenneth Barns (28 May 2020 22:47 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Joshua Bell (31 May 2020 23:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (01 Jun 2020 02:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (02 Jun 2020 03:47 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-VilaniStarfaring Jonathan Clark (02 Jun 2020 03:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-VilaniStarfaring Kelly St. Clair (02 Jun 2020 04:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-VilaniStarfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (02 Jun 2020 06:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-VilaniStarfaring Phil Pugliese (02 Jun 2020 14:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-VilaniStarfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (02 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-VilaniStarfaring Timothy Collinson (02 Jun 2020 17:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-VilaniStarfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (02 Jun 2020 19:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring shadow@xxxxxx (08 Jun 2020 13:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (08 Jun 2020 15:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring shadow@xxxxxx (09 Jun 2020 13:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring kaladorn@xxxxxx (09 Jun 2020 19:47 UTC)

Re: [TML] Canon question: Pre-Vilani Starfaring Jeff Zeitlin 28 May 2020 19:12 UTC

On Thu, 28 May 2020 13:16:41 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

>Jeff didn't mention Jump drive, he said star-faring.

I should have specified "FTL" - even if you can build and man a _Slow Train
to Arcturus_ (Eric Flint and Dave Freer; Baen Books, 2008), I wouldn't
consider that to make you a "starfaring race".

More specifically, a race isn't a 'starfaring race' until they're doing it
FTL for fun and profit - mere exploration doesn't cut it; commercial
exploitation is the key.

>Jeff, can you be more specific? Was the question about starfaring generally
>or Jump-drive driven star-faring?

Definitely FTL, and I believe I used the word 'canonically', and being a
starfaring race doesn't require that you have contacted intelligences not
from your world.

I'd also say that the astrographical limitation should be assumed to be
more-or-less Charted Space - a civilization on the other side of the galaxy
is irrelevant to the underlying purpose of the question.

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