[Mkguild] Special Delivery?!?

[Bryce Glover]

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 7:00 AM, mkguild-request at lists.integral.org wrote:
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> From: Andrew Vineyard <dimensional42 at gmail.com>
> Date: November 12, 2015 at 6:30:00 AM EST
> To: mkguild at lists.integral.org
> Subject: Re: [Mkguild] Special Delivery?!?
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> Well, given they have no knowledge about data storage, I doubt they'd be able to even access the records on the ship, let alone figure out how to reverse engineer it.  …

     That is a problem.  We humans have attempted to create data-storage mechanisms that we think might make sense to extraterrestrial organisms before (think the golden records on the Voyager probes,) though, so I think it might be possible for at least one Metamorian to figure out how to extract information from it if the interface turned out to be intuitive enough.  

> …While I’m sure they might get curious, they probably would think it’s some strange magic making it run, and probably very very dangerous.  …

That’s a bit of a disappointment, but you’re probably right.  (One could always invoke the ’nosy youngster’ plot device, though…oh, never mind; now I’m going off on tangents.)  

> …I take it you’re thinking of a non-canon story for the series?
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Maybe eventually — that is, perhaps after I finish something else I’m working on right now for another setting —, but I also wouldn’t mind too much if somebody else decided to do it first.  

— RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly


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> On 11/11/2015 3:12 PM, Bryce Glover wrote:
>>      How do you guys think the denizens of Metamor Keep might react if they saw a meteorite land on their metaphorical doorstep and then, when they sent somebody out to go look at it, they found out it was a human space probe from either a version of Earth parallel to their own or (much less         likely, given that Metamorian ephemerises include other planets in our solar system) another, extrasolar planet in their own universe?  Would they try to reverse-engineer it while also scrutinizing any information stored in its memory banks for clues as to where it came from and what the culture is like at its point of origin, or would they not even touch it with a mile-long pole?  
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>> Curious, 
>>      RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly
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