Re: The Common Tongue! & Realism

In our last episode, James Perry said:
> Eugene Shumu1insky said:
>>In our last episode, James Perry said:

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>>>What of the Thri-Kreen?  I believe it is stated in several places (novels
>>>and game suppliments) that they were the first into space...wouldn't they be
>>>closer to the root of the language? (oh, yeah...what was before Sjing?)
>>
>>	Their empire existed *way* before the modern age.  They didn't
>>"uplift" us into space.
>
>Well, what did the kreen use?  And where did they come from?  My pet theory
>is that their homeworld is Athas (due to the much wider variety of Kreen on
>the world of the Dark Sun.)  Comments on this?

	I only recently got the Dark Sun boxed set (less than a week ago),
and am just now starting to absorb it.  From what I've seen, I'd have the
Athasian Thri-Kreen be a "lost colony", from the days when Athas was an
open sphere and the Thri-Kreen still ruled.

	The Thri-Kreen used helms similar to the ones on their leafships.
It works by manipulating the gravity plane, causing the ship to "fall"
in the direction they want to go.  Spelljamming speeds are still a mystery.

	As always, YMMV.  (:

-Static

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