> Here's an odd question. Why would they have months if they can't see > the moon? Just a terran holdover? For that many thousands of years? Well, *any* theory of Dragaeran history has to account for the fact that there have been no sweeping changes in the way society is structured for approximately 200,000 years. We spent some time discussing theories of this on the list just a few months ago, as I recall. Once you're dealing with a theory that works on that scale, the issue of "months" seems, relatively speaking, small potatoes. Have we firmly established that Dragaera even *has* a moon? They have tides, but there is such a thing as solar tides, and we don't have enough hard data on the solar system to know their probable magnitude. [Hey DDB, did you ever get that private searchable-text of the Dragaera books up and running? I'd be interested if the word "moon" ever comes up...] Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx "Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in the movies." -- Bill Bulko