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What Details about the World are Important to Include.....
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Dresdenus Prime on August 01, 2012, 04:58:16 PM ---Currency isn't really something I'm worried about, it was just an example, but I was toying with changing the political structure a bit. Sure one year isn't very long. But at the same time I'm thinking these "aliens" could have leanred that the US have one leader, and they take him out, which drives the government to deciding it may be better to split the presidency into multiple positions, or something like that.
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What might be worth your looking into, then, is the changes in the rules about order of succession to the US Presidency in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination; it has been a while since I looked into this, but iirc it wasn't clearly defined beyond a couple of people before then, whereas now there's an order of succession with about twenty people on it, and there are rules about not having all the people above a certain place in that order at the same meeting (in the same city, maybe?) and so on. That would strike me as an example of the scale of thing the US political system might plausibly do in response to an alien-invasion emergency.
The Deposed King:
What details about the world are important to include.....
Whatever is relevant at the moment, so long as it flows. I don't want an alternate history lesson. I don't want an info dump. I want to be kept abreast of our guy/gal's reaction and if relevent why, as in - 'just seeing those protestors marching down 5th avenue made my blood boil. Presbyter the 5th, had been dragged through that very avenue and hung by his heels back in '38, by men and women just like those very same protestors. Protestors HA! Celebrators of one of the greastest tragedies in modern times. I aught to get a fire extinguisher and shoot the next few 'protestors' who marched past my office window.'
Something like that. Or perhaps better done.
The Deposed King
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on August 02, 2012, 08:18:46 AM ---Whatever is relevant at the moment, so long as it flows. I don't want an alternate history lesson. I don't want an info dump.
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I'f say, by all means give me an info dump or an AH lesson if you can make it flow.
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on August 02, 2012, 02:01:04 PM ---I'f say, by all means give me an info dump or an AH lesson if you can make it flow.
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To each her own I guess.
The Deposed King
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on August 02, 2012, 06:39:22 PM ---To each her own I guess.
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Neal Stephenson appears to have made a reasonably successful career out of books with large quantities of fun infodump, so it's not just me.
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