Dangerous is quite correct.This is the first I've heard about this.
And this is where a lot of the imaginary money ended up - is was loaned in very large amounts to people who couldn't afford to pay it back unless properly prices continued to rise - which is based on people getting pay rises ultimately funded by taxing the imaginary money being made by the banks and the imaginary profits funding private enterprise .Yeah, I was under the impression the massive real estate bubble bursting played the bigger role.
Nope, what we are facing in Europe now is many times wose than the events of the great depression.So now we're comparing the Great Depression and the Long Night? They're kind of different...
I would say the Long Night depended on whether there was an X-boat Service or not. Did the service have that name during the Rule of Man?
So now we're comparing the Great Depression and the Long Night? They're kind of different...
There was no x-boat service.I would say the Long Night depended on whether there was an X-boat Service or not. Did the service have that name during the Rule of Man?
I would say the Long Night depended on whether there was an X-boat Service or not. Did the service have that name during the Rule of Man?
The X-boat Service was launched by then-Imperial Regent Arbellatra in 624. It was in fact a direct response to the Civil War (604-622), which in turn was largely the result of centrifugal frictions exposed by the First Frontier War (589-604). The poor communication times of the old ad hoc network (4 years from Regina to the Core!) rendered the Spinward Marches an exposed, beseiged and effectively independent fiefdom, a fact which no doubt served as both a 'grievance' of -- and an advantage to -- Grand Admiral haut-Plankwell and his followers.The X-Boat service was created (IIRC) in the wake of the Civil War sometime in the mid 600s
Yes. Of course, most managers don't understand that the testing and fixing phase should be at least as long as the original programming phase.
And this is where a lot of the imaginary money ended up - is was loaned in very large amounts to people who couldn't afford to pay it back unless properly prices continued to rise - which is based on people getting pay rises ultimately funded by taxing the imaginary money being made by the banks and the imaginary profits funding private enterprise .
One day someone woke up and realised there is more imaginary money in circulation today than the entire output of real human wealth generation through the whole of recorded history and that the whole system is in reality a house of cards.
Nope, what we are facing in Europe now is many times wose than the events of the great depression.
If things are not handled correctly and the Euro collapses and the EU starts to unravel you will see a meltdown of financial institutions worldwide. There will be massive civil unrest, territorial disputes, war, famine disease - all in mainland Europe.
Now imagine that the Euro collapse destroys confidence in the US dollar and its value become that of a peanut, what happens when states refuse to pay their federal taxes, military units desert en mass because their pay is worthless and they can make more of a living in the local community.
Aren't doomsday scenarios fun =)
The Long Night brought an end to the Imperium (call it the Second Imperium or Rule of Man if you like but in reality it was still the Vilani Imperium under new management) - it did not cause empire wide strife on the scale third Imperial historians imply.
REMEMBER: Real World Politics post 1950 are definitely OFF LIMITS -Due to the civility of the discussion so far, and only looking at the economics, no one's in trouble. But it's important not to go there.
Wasn't the Long Night caused by more political reasons, while Earth's depression were economic in cause?
The Antares Crisis of -1776 would not have happened if the political institutions surrounding it had been capable of deliberating with the authority with which they had been originally set up to do. The event was less a trigger than a signpost -- the proof that interregional frictions within the old Ziru Sirka/RoM had taken local interstellar culture beyond the event horizon.The Long Night was triggered by a banking crisis - that's economic.
Demographically, the Ziru Sirka was pretty overwhelmingly Vilani in population. And some of the most widespread alien races (human or otherwise) were such because of how naturally they fit into the Vilani Order. Bwaps, Yileans, Anakundu and Answerin (for example) were all perfectly satisfied with their lot in the Ziru Sirka, and would have had little incentive to either throw their lot in with the Terrans or go off on their own.Basically, within the Ziru Sirka there were many minor races that were beginning to want their autonomy back. When the upstart Terrans actually started to not lose the Interstellar Wars the Vilani faced a very unsettled and increasingly unruly home front.
The 'Terrans' never seemed too enthusiastic about the whole Rule of Man project to begin with; remember that the Second Imperium was founded as a 'Solomani' rebellion or coup against Terran authority. The original Terran plan was to rule the Vilani directly, as conquered subjects.When the financial systems of the Imperium fell apart the Terrans could have held the Imperium together by force, but their military resources were stretched to breaking point and the Imperium was just too big.
Those worlds still had to contest with other ambitious high-tech neighbors, piracy or petty wars over scraps of necessary resources (critical raw materials, high-tech caches, breadbasket worlds, etc.). Worlds near the old borders also had to deal with encroachments by alien newcomers like the Aslan, Vargr and the occasional ambitious minor race.To a high tech, self sufficient world or pocket empire there was no Long Night, just 2000 years of not having to pay taxes to Imperial overlords ;-)
No, it's literally impossible to exhaustively test a lot of software - there are too many potential combinations of input etc. You test what you can, then fix what you missed with service packs.
And you are missing the point that the Vilani wouldn't allow such factories to be built to allow local manufacture. More than that, the engineers and technicians capable of building such a factory were kept a long way away too.
The X-boat Service was launched by then-Imperial Regent Arbellatra in 624. It was in fact a direct response to the Civil War (604-622), which in turn was largely the result of centrifugal frictions exposed by the First Frontier War (589-604). The poor communication times of the old ad hoc network (4 years from Regina to the Core!) rendered the Spinward Marches an exposed, beseiged and effectively independent fiefdom, a fact which no doubt served as both a 'grievance' of -- and an advantage to -- Grand Admiral haut-Plankwell and his followers.