RE: [DL] Passenger Train Economics (kinda spoiler)

[Francois Pepin <frpepin@attglobal.net>]

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Well, as far as I understand, that was kind of part of the plan. Sure you
can just have the monsters arrive and slowly kill everyone off until there
is total chaos. But then you start to have people organize themselves and
helping each others to deal with the critters.

If the critters are strong enough, then they'll be winning the war somewhat
as the line of civilization is pushed back further and further East. But
then the terror factor is kind of limited to those regions and you have
people cooperating to fend it off (cooperation bad here if you'd a big bad
reckoner).

So what you do is to give the people a way to fight them back, you give them
mad science, you give them huckstery, etc. But then you make it so that
people can't quite trust those new ways and that they bring problems of
their own. So that you can bring fear more subtly into people's mind. And
you can also gain more control about the populations if you can put your own
agents in place to help the people out (like Hellstromme).

So either they don't quite have the power to bring big horde and bring an
end to civilization right away, or they're just twisted that way.
Personnally I'd vote for the second option if my Marshall is any indication
there.

Francois

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Tis kinda touches on a theme I picked up from the Mark Sumner books - that
with all the magic and mojo in the world, the West is dying off.  Towns are
disappearing faster than new ones are being built - especially since the
trains aren't really running well enough to do what they did historically -
move large numbers of folks into the plains areas.




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Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed,
sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.
                 -P.J. O'Rourke


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