Re: Instant Torture Camps

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:11:37 GMT

Nils and I:
> > > Eventually, an enterprising mandarin may have realized that
> > > the camps could be used for other purposes as well. Stick a
> > > prisoner there and there are two possible outcomes:
> >
> > This is pretty much what I was suggesting;
>
> Oh, sorry to be repetitive then.

Not at all: be glad to be in agreement, as I am! ;-)

> What stuck in my mind in
> your argument was "actual origin lost in the fog of history".
> (Which I agree on btw, I don't think many modern Kralorelans
> beside Godunya know what the ITCs originally were).

More than that: I'm saying _we_ don't have good info on this right now; and as you say, if we synthesised, channeled, Ask-Gregged, or otherwise obtained it, it would be rather 'God's Eye View' stuff, since it's obscure to Kralorelans for the reasons I stated. Which I won't re-state, but for emphasis I'll opine that the number of modern K. who have even _heard_ of them is statistical noise, much less who might know about the details of them. (Pretty much only by finding a classified "Most top very secret, if you are reading this you are already dead, profusion of humble apologies" style of document.)

Cheers,
Alex.

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