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Originally Posted by ANT Pogo
What made me less than pleased, though, was the sudden, almost whiplash-inducing shift in the apparent technical base. In TNE, even the most advanced political entities like the RC just had small single ships venturing out among the virus-filled wastes to laboriously rebuild even a small interstellar empire from the ashes of boneyard worlds and TED-controlled planets. And yet the 1248 book is filled with colossal fleet clashes like epic Babylon 5 battles...and not just once, but repeatedly, as fleets get wiped out and rebuilt almost as an afterthought.
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I don't think that 1248 goes against what was actually seen in TNE, as I think that the continuity of the Regency (which *did* have a lot of ships) and the RCES (which didn't) is solid. However, I do think it went against the
implications of TNE, which largely suggested that everything else was Wilds.
I'm willing to accept that, as I don't think the implications of TNE allowed for much interesting future history for a long, long time.