> -----Original Message----- > From: Damien Sullivan [mailto:phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu] > Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 4:05 PM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Where's the technology? > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:43:55PM -0400, Alma Gaiz wrote: > > Perhaps the Jenoine are artificially evolved humans? Perhaps some sort > > I had this thought a while back, that the Jenoine were the Gen-u-ine > humans > (but posthuman) who played around with the planet, a la _Lord of Light_. > But > then there's text about the Terran ship coming before the Jenoine. Also, > now > that we've seen them, they're just weird. > > > Also, I'm surprised that amorphia hasn't been compared to anti matter > > before. The stuff destroys matter when it touches it, creating a flash > > of light, and a violent detonation. It isn't found naturally, at least > > Except that it doesn't do any of those things, except "destroy matter". > And > anti-matter doesn't reproduce. > > What amorphia *is* like, very much so, is the cacoastrum from _To Reign in > Hell_, and sorcerous power seems like iliaster. Witchcraft is using your > own > puny iliaster, Orb sorcery is getting a massive iliaster feed, Elder > sorcery > is either filtering off iliaster from some contained cacoastrum or using > the > cacoastrum to weaken reality so that your iliaster is more effective or > both. > > Which leads me to the idea that the Jenoine are in origin similar to the > angels in _To Reign in Hell_. About my only evidence for that is their > having a "natural immunity", which is pretty odd for a substances which > "doesn't occur anywhere else in the universe". So I conclude the Jenoine > come > from Outside the universe. > > -xx- Damien X-) I like the idea of Dragaera as a flaw in the Plan and the speculation that can follow that. I don't think we'll be able to nail down the theory though.