One thing I believe a future OTU should definitely not have is a large Imperium. The Imperium is dead, and it is time that the inhabitants of the OTU learned from their mistakes.
scrabble/dhr,
Your reading comprehension hasn't improved at all, has it?
Is there
any mention of the Imperium or an imperium in
Post #55?
In 1248, the polities are much smaller (sector-sized).
Poor reading comprehension again...
In 1500 the polities of 1248 have been dead for over two hundred and fifty years thanks to the effects of a very different Empress Wave.
By 1500 perhaps the largest would span two or three sectors...
And your lack of reading comprehension strikes again...
In 1500, worlds have been able to use jump drive for two or three generations at most. The largest polities will be under subsector in size and populations away from "shirtsleeve" worlds and those relatively few inhospitable systems which maintained enough technology to survive will be minimal. There will be a few populated worlds in each subsector and a lot of empty space around them.
I think there would be a real frontier...
As John Appel and I
already discussed, there will be both interior and exterior frontiers ripe for exploration and recontact.
Let's lay down some ground rules here, drh. I think, given our history together, that some rules will be needed.
If you have anything of value to contribute to this discussion I'll be more than happy to read it. However, if you simply post "ditto" statements, engage in your usual trolling, or make remarks like these that exhibit no comprehension of what as already been discussed, I'm going to use the report function early and often.
This thread is too important for the usual shenanigans. Understood?
Regards,
Bill