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From:     Silmacar Halfelven <silmacar@???????.com>
Date:     Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:26:15 -0000
Subject:  Re: CHOAM pilots
>From: Jim Clunie <jim_clunie@???????.com>
>>>Next, I'm considering making the navigators/captains or whatever of these
>>>ships very mathematically evolved, somewhere almost akin to todays
>>>mathematical skills (excluding computers of course).
>>
>>Mentat and CHOAM pilots?
>>
>
>That's not a bad idea at all. Would CHOAM pilots be natural spelljammers,
>or
>perhaps natural portal devices?
>

A prescient pilot would be able to know where a portal is going to open;
they could be able to select their course while jamming, and maybe even jam
upstream in the phlogiston.
The interesting part is the drug they use. A melange-addicted pilot could
create new problems to the crew.


Silmacar
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