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

From: Chris White <chris_at_...>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:07:01 -0700

At 12:12 PM 9/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>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.

        That sounds almost Orky...


Nickles
Received on Wed Sep 17 1997 - 18:07:01 UTC

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