(explaining the joke for those unaware: The Battletech setting is a “nuked ourselves from interstellar space travel back to the stone age” type scenario. An interesting component of the setting is Comstar, the AT&T-like telecommunications monopoly mutated into a religious order which 1. as basically the only extant vestige of the old Star League are convinced they will someday return enlightenment to humanity, with increasing fanaticism, 2. carry telegram-like messages at telegram-like speeds throughout known space, 3. Operate as the de facto international bank and issuer of currency (the C-bill) because milliseconds of transmitter time is the only stable monetary base, and 4. the shifty fucks will sabotage any attempt to climb out of the dark age that isn’t under their control.)
The peace of Blake be with you.
(explaining the joke for those unaware: The Battletech setting is a “nuked ourselves from interstellar space travel back to the stone age” type scenario. An interesting component of the setting is Comstar, the AT&T-like telecommunications monopoly mutated into a religious order which 1. as basically the only extant vestige of the old Star League are convinced they will someday return enlightenment to humanity, with increasing fanaticism, 2. carry telegram-like messages at telegram-like speeds throughout known space, 3. Operate as the de facto international bank and issuer of currency (the C-bill) because milliseconds of transmitter time is the only stable monetary base, and 4. the shifty fucks will sabotage any attempt to climb out of the dark age that isn’t under their control.)
This gave me PTSD.