The Hair-Carpet Weavers Q6: Implications of all this for Gaming?
What's good here for you gaming use? How does this compare to your own gaming, in either setting or scenario design? Can you think of a game system that might capture the important elements of this novel?

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I'll be interested to see what scale people talk about here - the rather hand-to-mouth existence on the carpet-producing planets, or the high-tech spaceship crews, or the political empire vs rebels drama. Is it at all possible to cover more than one of these in the same game?