[HoE] Re: Timeline

[Xotzil@aol.com]

Hrm. MY big thing with the timeline is that supplements seem to make 
Futuretech more prevalent than Junkertech. Cybertechnology (particularly the 
Infiltrators), Data Slugs and the Librarian's Palm Recorders seem too "clean" 
a technology to have evolved from Mad Science. I don't get a sense of that 
cobbled-togetherness that most Mad Science seemed to have going for it.

I know that Palm Pilots are used by a ton of techies today, and that a Data 
Slug is just a fancy type of floppy, but it still seems too "normal." I much 
preferred the huge monstrosities that WrdWst MS's constantly had to tinker 
with, and the whole flavour of Junkers was changed by JC. Not that I don't 
think the "new" Junkers aren't cool, but (1) it doesn't feel "junk-y" enough, 
and (2) I liked the idea of a Junker grabbing a passing manitou by the 
unmentionables and FORCING it into a component to make it work, which was the 
sense of it that I got in the main rulebook. Again, NOTHING wrong with the 
"new" ones...I just liked the other [interpreted] version better.

What do y'all think? I'm not talking about "advancement" per se...more about 
the flavour of the tech.

--Jacques