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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Empire builder fiction generally falls into the situation where one has to decide what kind of empire one wants to build. And I'm not just talking straightforwardly about whether to build an interstellar extra-territorial dystopian megacorporation, but on what basis one is trying to build it...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Yeah, when people add in explanations for the Celestial Forge or similar things that make sense in-universe, it kind of takes up too much air. I'd much prefer it's just the work of a random omnipotent wizard then some greater thing.
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Yeah, it is a bit disappointing, but as I've said before, I'll enjoy it regardless. There's very obviously a limit to how much you can fundamentally screen people, and there's also a limit to what you can really screen. Even if you select for the best traits for the job, the reality is that...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I do appreciate the shift that the story has taken, because it has actually diverged a lot from how Cliff has previously written. I think a lot of the nitpicks that people have aren't really valid, or they have completely justifiable explanations. This was an absolutely fantastic chapter that...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I will say that many of the people on this site seem to confuse deeper tragedy with grimderp, which is... stupid, to say the least. But this site is full of people without reading comprehension. :V I'm not going to reply to all that, because then we'll get into a rant slapfight that will keep...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    You seem to have taken this as legitimate hostility to his story, which it isn't. As I said, I enjoy his story and I don't want others to not read it. I just want those who are critical of it to actually criticize parts of it that matter. Rational fiction tends to have three outcomes, and...
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    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Eh, there are legitimate reasons to criticize Cliff's writing, in that it tends to predictable plus there seems to be legitimate sympathizing with authoritarian structures as long as they aren't incompetent and aren't hurting more than they are helping (you can see it here quite obviously with...
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