On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Reen Brust wrote: > > (snip) > > The Orb of course is a computer/router/... > > What a wierd thing to say. Calling it a Great Weapon would be a demotion, > to call it a router is mindboggling. Sorry, I'm a terse typer. I meant to write "Great Router". > > Zerika I managed to create > > such a complex object from scratch but her empire was relying on exploding > > sticks millennia later - this puzzles me. > > Have you considered devine intervention? > Sure, she gets the basic architecture in a dream, but she does the programming herself (Sethra calls her code "clever" in FHYA), and then no one has a bright idea for 200k years? - Philip