Dragaera

the Orb

Wed Jan 8 18:24:53 PST 2003

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:07 PM, Philip Hart wrote:

> 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?

No one said Dragaerans were the bright bulbs in the store.