<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 12, 2015, at 7:00 AM, <a href="mailto:mkguild-request@lists.integral.org" class="">mkguild-request@lists.integral.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">⋮<br class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""> </div> <br class=""></div><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrew Vineyard <<a href="mailto:dimensional42@gmail.com" class="">dimensional42@gmail.com</a>></span><br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">November 12, 2015 at 6:30:00 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:mkguild@lists.integral.org" class="">mkguild@lists.integral.org</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [Mkguild] Special Delivery?!?</b><br class=""></span></div><br class="">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. …</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div> That <i class="">is</i> 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 <i class="">one</i> Metamorian to figure out how to extract information from it if the interface turned out to be intuitive enough. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">…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. …</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>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.) </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">…I take it you’re thinking of a non-canon story for the series?<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="">⋮</blockquote></div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">— RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly</div></div><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">⋮</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""> <br class=""> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/11/2015 3:12 PM, Bryce Glover wrote:<br class=""> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:FFA93BDD-9B2E-45B5-B0A7-E2F2C1443928@gmail.com" type="cite" class=""> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" class=""> <div class=""> 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? </div> <br class=""> <div apple-content-edited="true" class=""> <div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> <div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> <div class="">Curious, </div> <div class=""> RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly</div> </div> </div> </div> _______________________________________________<br class=""><pre wrap="" class="">MKGuild mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org">MKGuild@lists.integral.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild">http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild</a> </pre> </blockquote> </div>_______________________________________________<br class="">MKGuild mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org" class="">MKGuild@lists.integral.org</a><br class="">http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild</div></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""> </div> <br class=""></body></html>