On 09Nov2021 2242, James Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021, 09:29 Alex Goodwin - alex.goodwin at multitel.com.au
> (via tml list), <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
>> What happened before the rise of the TAS, such as during the duration of
>> the Nth Interstellar War, after the Terrans developed (IIRC the first
>> non-Ancient) meson bang bangs?
>>
>> Figures, though - the bunch of human nutcases without a collective
>> cultural memory of the Ancients being the first ones to independently
>> develop meson weapons, within 2 centuries (canonically) of independently
>> developing Jump.
>>
> I thought that meson guns weren't invented until after Sabmiqys was
> contacted?
Nope. They were invented during the Interstellar Wars by the Terrans,
and were part of the advance to TL12 that ensured the final defeat of
the Vilani (along with Jump-3).

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>