Davdi Silverrock wrote: >Not necessarily. In my scenario, an influx of Magyar from earlier in >our history (say, around 1000AD our time) to Dragaera at some point in >Dragaera's "recent" past (sometime in the 17th Cycle, maybe a few >hundred years before Tortaalik's reign began) could result in the >Fenarian civilization we see in /Brokedown Palace/ and Vlad's time. >Or something like that. > >Time travel weirds history. > > Is it a given that time travel is in any way involved? >>Is it part of your theory that Terran colonization of Dragaera is ongoing? >> >> > >No, not colonization. Maybe that first human population, before the >Empire, but I'm talking about influxes of people with minimal >civilization into already settled lands, thus disrupting them, and >preventing the rising of an Easterner civilization with a higher tech >level than the Dragaeran Empire. > Would a higher tech level really cause the Empire any problem? Would anthrax, atomic weapons, Sarin gas, Tanks, high explosives, particle weapons, etc be very effective against a little Elder Sorcery? Could it be that Dragaera is actually just a planet that is colonized well into our own future, where massive starships armed with directed-energy weapons delivered millions of Terran colonists (armed with tons of high-tech gear) a million years before Vlad's time, where they lived quite happily--excepting only minor run-ins with a few Serioli--until one day the Jenoine show up, start monkeying around with our genes, then, shortly after, the gods create a sea of amorphia, making all our splendid technology aboslutely obsolete? What would this mean to a technological civilization? To be countered with a threat that was completely outside of all known science? How would Sethra Lavode counter, say, the threat of a thousand nuclear-tipped ICBMs? Would she wave Iceflame a couple of times, turn them all into dzur droppings, and fling them back at whomever launched them? Sorry, no real answers in this post. Just lots of questions. Majikjon