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 Vestiges of the original ideas now take the form of the noticeable mental effect that an avatar may exert on a Threadwielder who is routing their sensory processing through the avatar (the "autonomy"), that Threadwielders themselves exist in a fundamentally intangible form relative to our everyday reality (the "dimension"), and that they are powerful but not unknowable. Vestiges of the original ideas now take the form of the noticeable mental effect that an avatar may exert on a Threadwielder who is routing their sensory processing through the avatar (the "autonomy"), that Threadwielders themselves exist in a fundamentally intangible form relative to our everyday reality (the "dimension"), and that they are powerful but not unknowable.
  
-Of course, with Threadwielders came [[:Thread]], which restricts what precisely Threadwielder can even do to the universe, and is much of the driving force behind what has turned the series' genre from sci-fi so soft you can spread it on a croissant, sprinkled with fantasy, to a decent hard-ish sci-fi setting.+Of course, with Threadwielders came [[:Thread]], which restricts what precisely Threadwielder can even do to the universe, and is much of the driving force behind what has turned the series' genre from sci-fi so soft you can spread it on a croissant, sprinkled with fantasy, to a decent hard(ish) sci-fi setting.
  
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-As already mentioned earlier, the dinosaurs on Lossos generally had technology far superior to the technology humans had. One piece of technology at the very edge of their capabilities was time travel, which was part of the driving force behind the series title //Terror of Time//, and indeed explained why the species from different eras could live side by side at all. This was discarded altogether - both for narrative reasons (time travel plots are fiendishly difficult to get right) and for plausibility reasons (it really has no place in hard science fiction - or at least, one would have to go to truly great lengths to make it work).+As already mentioned earlier, the dinosaurs on Lossos generally had technology far superior to the technology humans had. One piece of technology at the very edge of their capabilities was time travel, which was part of the driving force behind the series title //Terror of Time//, and indeed explained why the species from different eras could live side by side at all. This was discarded altogether - both for narrative reasons (time travel plots are fiendishly difficult to get right) and for plausibility reasons (it really has no place in hard(ish) science fiction - or at least, one would have to go to truly great lengths to make it work).
  
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