>Why do we always associate technology and morality?
>
>At the risk of stretching the metaphor past the breaking point we can run 
>with the
>sailing the spaceways metaphor.  Swiping the decor from a late 19th century
>English ship of the line, everything is crisp white or highly polished 
>brass.
>(Gilbert and Sullivan -- he polished up the brass so throughly that now he 
>is the
>admiral of the queens navy.)  This is set, through port holes perhaps, 
>against a
>stark black backdrop speckled with stars.  Societies could be presented as 
>ports
>of call, the main page as the deck, the map page as a chart room, the 
>rulesWHy not have a group of Mysterious Strangers/Traders/Whatever from 
>some unknown ancient race who left their home to explore and wander the 
>galaxy/universe. After many milliennias, this Mysterious race tells about 
>the Space Societies of the Main. Thier ships can be so advance that other 
>societies will not be able to find them, able to destroy them and 
>etc.....they are obsolute Mysterious and a Legend.
ANyway, just posting ideas......... -LordLMP

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