Well, Oak meets the danger of being inside someone's head when they die.  He could have run, and perhaps succeeded, but he preferred to smack the Spirit of the Nation a good right hook.

Questions? Ideas? Comments?

Riddle: This world is based upon a historical time period and place, quite recent from a historical perspective.  What and when is it?

PT

which time period is it?

Oak, have fun in limbo... its an interesting place when you really get to know your way around.
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I'm not an authority on history, but I'll take a wild guess and say... Revolutionary France?

Yup, you had me pegged exactly.  My overriding goal was to free both the planet and the station from the bondage of the evil spirit... and that looked like the best shot at throwing a successful spiritual right hook that I was going to get.  It was worth it, and I'd do it all again.

If that spirit is to believed (which is rather suspect), then I bought them ten years.  If not, perhaps it will be longer.  But hopefully the seed that I planted will grow.

PT, was I able to remain long enough to will the small comp unit that I loaned the village to them for keeps?  For I don't think there was time for the village Memory to memorize the entire Bible... and I want Jerome, and all of the planet and stationers, to have it.

1920's Japan and the invasion of Manchuria.  Japan was the Station.  Oleander was China.  And the jumpgate station owned by the Imperium at the edge of the solar system was Pearl Harbour.

Paul Johnson in his absolutely brilliant history of the 20th Century, Modern Times, talked about how the Japanese didn't have law, and they made policy by younger officers assasinating older officers.  He also said the older officers didn't want the Manchurian war which led to the Rape of Nanking, but the younger officers who were in direct contact with the Chinese deliberately started the war anyways.

And he described the bit about honor=popularity.  So, it was moral to slaughter your boss' boss as long as most of your peers thought it was a wonderful idea.  So they were a people without much of a fixed moral compass.

As a side note, Native Americans had a somewhat similar (although less severe problem).  The elders wanted to negotiate for peace, but the young braves wanted to make their name, and the elders I guess did not have the authority (whether moral or actual, de jure or de facto) to reign in the young braves.  Of course, the young braves weren't running about assasinating their elders nor did they confuse morality for popularity.


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Yes, you can disown the computer.

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You've gained one strength mark, and two endurance marks, and lost twenty pounds.  1.5 gravity is great for exercise.  You've also picked up low amateur skill in Safe Movement in High Gravity since High G's have a tendency to sprained ankles, lethal falls, and so forth.

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I'm still trying to think of where to send you.  Sorry, not Haston.  And it needs to be a big enough world to drop you into.  Some of our sketches might be a wee small.

So far you've gone to City-state of Haston, Heartwar, First Contact/First Murder, and Psyclone Station.