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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9161580" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>The FTL link isn't all that important; the prescience and the geriatric properties are; the setting already had FTL prior to the spice, at least as noted in the appendices of the volume I have. </p><p>The geriatric properties alone, coupled to its addictiveness, and you have the same element of hydraulic despotism; one could even make it a single planetary setting by just reducing scales due to that addiction -- once it starts keeping you youthful, stopping kills you, so it being a critter in some deep desert on Earth would work. The FTL is an excuse for mono-environment worlds and a longer scope. </p><p></p><p>Also note that the FTL angle isn't needed in setting - non-sentient computers are used in later volumes, and they were used prior to the Jihad. That the computers needed for Folding Space are prohibited is an over-exaggeration of risk, as shown in both later novels (both Frank's and Brian's) and in the prequels.</p><p></p><p>The FTL drive is a Holtzman field effect. Without a Navigator, it's limited to some short distance... IIRC 15 or 25 LY... I'd need to reread Heretics and/or Chapterhouse... while a navigator can go hundreds of LY. So, it's a case of the setting never <em>needed</em> it to be spice dependent, it was just a more obvious utility, making the whole thing more easily grasped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9161580, member: 6779310"] The FTL link isn't all that important; the prescience and the geriatric properties are; the setting already had FTL prior to the spice, at least as noted in the appendices of the volume I have. The geriatric properties alone, coupled to its addictiveness, and you have the same element of hydraulic despotism; one could even make it a single planetary setting by just reducing scales due to that addiction -- once it starts keeping you youthful, stopping kills you, so it being a critter in some deep desert on Earth would work. The FTL is an excuse for mono-environment worlds and a longer scope. Also note that the FTL angle isn't needed in setting - non-sentient computers are used in later volumes, and they were used prior to the Jihad. That the computers needed for Folding Space are prohibited is an over-exaggeration of risk, as shown in both later novels (both Frank's and Brian's) and in the prequels. The FTL drive is a Holtzman field effect. Without a Navigator, it's limited to some short distance... IIRC 15 or 25 LY... I'd need to reread Heretics and/or Chapterhouse... while a navigator can go hundreds of LY. So, it's a case of the setting never [I]needed[/I] it to be spice dependent, it was just a more obvious utility, making the whole thing more easily grasped. [/QUOTE]
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