It seems that a lot of folks are assuming that `easterners' colonized Dragaera a long time ago. Can't be. Marx and Engels are central to at least two stories. Vlad is *way* in our future. -- "I've thought of her every day for the last ten years, Jar Jar. Every handful of Reese's Pieces reminds me of her beautiful, dark eyes." "You'sa soundin' like you be needin' a Pepsi, Ani." Andrew Porter Glendinning, on Slashdot