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Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:26 am**

Okay. How did Intertech fund the deep space exploration that would eventually discover the Amnion?

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:57 am**

Good question. Sorus! Let's see, did Intertech tax the mines, maybe?

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2017 3:05 am**

Nope!

Itty-bitty clue: They invented something.

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2017 4:53 am**

The GAP drive? (Was Juanita whatsername part of intertech?)

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Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2017 9:49 pm**

It was something not directly related to space travel. (But also something that every ship would have in their inventory.)

Posted: **Thu Feb 09, 2017 4:44 am**

Can't remember. Anybody? Anybody?

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Posted: **Thu Feb 09, 2017 10:17 pm**

I'm trying to think of another clue that won't give it away.

Let's see... Intertech developed the immunity drug. This is pre-contact with the Amnion, so obviously the answer isn't directly related to that.

The answer is at least in the same neighborhood of research, however.

Spoiler

Also, there's a clue in my avatar if you don't mind a little wordplay.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:39 am**

The datacore? CMOS chip? (can't clearly remember the acronym for the chip if CMOS isn't right)

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:04 am**

No, but good guesses.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:56 am**

I think the chip was SoD, Silicon on Diamond, but what intertech invented...the zone implant?

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Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2017 9:31 am**

Cataleptic, or "Cat"

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:19 pm**

StevieG wrote:Cataleptic, or "Cat"

Correct! In context:

Intertech's most profitable discovery, however, was the catecholamine inhibitor - popularly considered a "cataleptic," therefore called "cat" - which soon replaced most tranquilizers, 1-tryptophan derivatives, sedatives, and lithium compounds in the treatment of stress disorders, insomnia, adrenaline poisoning, and depression.

Cat alone brought in enough money to enable Intertech to expand its function into exploration.

Your turn, StevieG!

Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:48 am**

Great question and answer, Sorus and Stevie; that's how you mine the Gap for significant-yet-obscure details!

I so enjoy learning stuff I've missed in SRD's books...

Posted: **Sun Feb 12, 2017 6:18 am**

Savor Dam wrote:Great question and answer, Sorus and Stevie; that's how you mine the Gap for significant-yet-obscure details!

I so enjoy learning stuff I've missed in SRD's books...

Exactly what I like about this thread, myself, Savor Dam!

And there's something quite appropriate about Sorus coming up with a creative question which has the answer of "cat", now that I think about it.

Posted: **Sun Feb 12, 2017 3:55 pm**

I did say there was a clue in my avatar.

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2017 5:35 am**

--A

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:45 am**

Speaking of kittehs
Please go greet latest Watcher
Feeling Fine Feline

Hurn and Avatar
As well as yours truly have
Already done so

This latest member
Has paid tribute to felines
In Cov and Mordant

But I'd bet that he
Is probably unaware
Of Cat in the Gap

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:43 pm**

Great question Sorus, and an even better clue!

I'll get on to a new question when I think of one...

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:47 am**

Sorus wrote:I did say there was a clue in my avatar.

As I went through the clues, I became sure that SOD CMOS chips/datacores was the answer. But then I got to your avatar clue, and I assumed the connection was over my head.

When I read StevieG's answer, I slapped my forehead.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:56 am**

I figured it might be confusing because the cat in question is named after Director Donner, but hey, I didn't want to make it too easy.

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