Re: [Epic] Diminishing background and STC discoveries (was Re:Medics)

From: Thomas Lee Denney <seether_at_...>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:12:26 -0500

>Once again someone falls prey to the diminishing amount of background
>material available to us. The Imperium has just emerged from a
>technological dark age induced by a whole bunhch o' reasons (the main one
>having to do with the creation of the eye of terror IIRC). As such,
>mankind is relearning everything it has already discovered. An example of
>this is GWs justification for releasing each Rhino variant with a little
>bit of background fluff in chronological order with it's release, the
>reason; Tech priests scouring newly found planets discover ancient human
>ruins and amongst them find new Standard Template Construct (STC) plan
>variants. The Rhino was found as a master on Terra, then, ,all over the
>galaxy STCs were found for Rhino variants, the whirlwind, the sabre, the
>predator, the vindicator, the predator,...

I also remember reading somewhere about templates being so flexible you
could make whatever was in the plans out of whatever material was available
on the world. It said something about even being able to make Rhino's out
of wood.

>Because of this, the Imperium's technological advances are primarily in
>the form of Archeological studies (Look at the Archeotech in Necromunda).
>Steve
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