Frettzo
Vec
Lord Zee
Double Capybara
@Muttonhawk@Antarctic Termite, Since you want to get started, I'll send a link over.
And speaking of the talk with Lifprasil, it's got me wondering about an old question. Since Vowzra is gone, is there any force remaining which would stop Teknall from rushing a Galbarian civilisation to the space age? Don't panic, the question is currently hypothetical, for my Might is budgeted out to more pressing projects at the moment, but I'd still like to know.
I mean, even when Vowzra was around there was nothing stopping Teknall - or anyone - from rushing a civilisation to the space age. That limitation is placed externally by the GMs and players in general. Sure, Vowzra in his capacity as my shadow in the IC world may have taken steps to rein in anything of the sort, but his existence alone wouldn't have prevented Teknall from building a space-age civilisation.
We have instances of 'civilisations' which are clearly far ahead - Lifprasil's civilisation being the big one, and that of New Chronos being the other key one (if no one noticed >.>) and nothing has happened to them. Vetros is clearly quite advanced, and Eskanadran civilisation - though not on Galbar - appears relatively advanced.
I may personally step in and bring the former two, or any other that may emerge, down a notch tech-wise if they tried to spread revolutionary technologies (which they've no reason to as historically states tended to keep their technologies a national secret. Even their histories were sometimes preserved as national secrets).
But in-game, there isn't really a force - and there was never really a force - that prevented hyper-quick technological development. There is the mechanic which forces new creations to evolve from pre-existing ones over time, as dictated by the laws in the Codex, but that can be gotten around with Might (i.e. Mammon's demons were more or less created ex nihilo). We could, by analogy, attempt to apply that same mechanic to technologies, but I think creation and tech advancement are too different for that to work (and it all depends on how broad 'law' is in the Codex - is it purely science laws [gravity] or is it "Natural Laws" too [if you are an evil people, you will be destroyed]. If we go with this latter interpretation, then the mechanic may work on technologies also.)
So the only force preventing Teknall from doing what you say is the force of our general consensus here in the OOC. Beyond me stepping in personally to bring such a civilisation down a notch should you go ahead, its sudden development could be incorporated in some kind of storyline which would eventually see it crumble (i.e. Lifprasil has plans for his civilisation which are more or less that). If there is a broader storyline purpose behind building a space-age civilisation so early on, we're all ears.
