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	Re: The Forever War - and the Player
	Posted By: Cheerful	Date: 11/4/04 3:27 p.m.
	In Response To: The Forever War - and the Player (Blayne) : Since reading " The Forever War " by Joe Haldeman, I've cooked up : an interesting notion. : Anyone whose read The Foreever War knows the premise: Time dilation causes : after multiple space-gateway jumps has an interesting effect. To a : shipboard soldier, they experience 8 months of time pasing - while : decades, or in some cases - hundreds of years - have passed on Earth, and : elsewhere. : Now, I realize the "folding" transport used in the Marathon : universe is more akin to StarWars or Star Trek instaneous : "whizz-bang" transport. Time passes the same onboard a traveling : vessle as it does on Earth, or Pfhor Prime. : However : we know that Durandal places the player into stasis fairly often. : I believe this would (after a few hundred years have passes since the : events of the Marathon) constitute a vast gulf between the Marine and : other Humans. Accent, manner of dress/armor, and any cultural references : he remembered before he became a battleroid would be different. : Has this ever been explored in any 3rd party scenarios or writings? : I know in Eternal, (by Forrest) - the Marine is re-integrated ( somewhat ) : into human society and becomes "Marcus". Is it ever quantified : exactly how much time has passed at that point in Eternal? : In the Rubicon spectrum, its left vauge about exactly how many years have : passed between the time you departed the Marathon to then. : This aspect also doesn't just apply to the player. Any BoB's (Blake, for : example) who left Sol on the Marathon hundreds of years before would : likley feel like aliens when they arrived back on Earth. : I'd love everyones thoughts on this. : -Blayne Forever War was a great novel. More to topic, I think that there would be quite a lot of changes in human culture on Earth after the Marathon's launch. However it might be somewhat difficult for a scenario to explore that. It might make a good basis for a story however.

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	The Forever War - and the Player	Blayne	11/3/04 3:29 p.m.
	Re: The Forever War - and the Player	Forrest of B.org	11/3/04 3:44 p.m.
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	Re: The Forever War - and the Player	Andromeda_5[Kilo]	11/4/04 11:51 a.m.
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	Re: The Forever War - and the Player	Blayne	11/4/04 9:14 a.m.
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	Re: The Forever War - and the Player	Kommienzuspadt	11/6/04 5:32 a.m.
	Re: The Forever War - and the Player	Cheerful	11/4/04 3:27 p.m.

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