Idea for a Fractal Cosmos story: Vena's Tale

[Joao_Luz (João Luz)]

Thanks for giving your opinion.

@Radivis

Is it reasonable to expect this kind of poverty in the 2080s on the Venus colonies? After all, genetic enhancements should probably be trivial by the 2080s. But perhaps it’s a question of degree and the best enhancements are only available to those with a lot of resources / reputation. However, the 2080 should see solid digital abundance, with the information about the best genetic enhancements available to everyone. The Second Cold War is over and the economy should be pretty damn good, even on Venus.

Instead, it might be more interesting to say that Vena had some experimental enhancements which didn’t turn out to work the way they were intended to. However, they may have some subtle effects which are beneficial to Vena in the end.

What if Vena came from an abusive primitivist family and was later adopted by a more caring and progressive one? That would also be interesting.

@Radivis

Why would the collectives send delegates? Has it something to do with unreliable communications, or is it a cultural thing with people preferring to negotiate “face to face”?

The preference to negotiate face to face sounds like a plausible reason.

@Radivis

First of all, the hell creepers would probably notice that one of them has been disconnected and wanted them back.

Yeah, you’re probably right.

@Radivis

They might however decide not to take the matter too seriously out of fear that this would turn into a diplomatic conflict which could ruin trade relations with the cloud lords.

I was thinking that maybe the negotiations could crash and the hell-creepers could be force out of the city. They’d still want Lor back but they wouldn’t give much importance to that because he was just an individual now. They would certainly not risk making a complicated diplomatic situation even more complicated.

@Radivis

the hell creepers wouldn’t think this is such a big deal, unless they interpret it as diplomatic windfall in which case they would indeed be inclined to reciprocate in some way, and they just happen to think that the knowledge about system V would demonstrate their own gratitude and respect.

Yeah, since cloud-lords and hell-creepers don’t usually work together the K’phlor collective (which, being the collective that first came up with V, would be mostly peacefull and progressive) would probably see Vena’s actions as a proof that the cloud-lords weren’t all bad and that they all could live in peace.