Re: Elven Navy

In our last episode, Grimwulf said:
>On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Static wrote:
>> In our last episode, Spike said:
>> >Good story......now can you explain how the dwarves, what I would
>> >normally consider a non-magical race(not counting the dwarven
>> >priests), arrived and established a presence in wildspace.
>> 
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>> 	Seriously though, I think they were just added to put all of
>> the PC races in space.  My only reasoning for Dwarves... In... SPACE...
>> is that they originated from metal/mineral poor worlds.  Maybe one day
>> a meteor came down, and they realized that there were more resources
>> to be had on the surface and in space.  The arcane probably took advantage
>> of the situation, and created some magical forges to help them get around.
>> They caught the dwarves in a moment of weakness, and helped them get
>> spacebourne.  (Hmm... The arcane could have had something to do with
>> that meteor coming down.)
>
>I would actually disagree here.  It seems to me that Dwarves and Elves 
>have always been involved in a somewhat less-than-friendly competition.  

	I never thought of them competing.  In fact, in my reality, they
have very little contact.  That whole "racial hatred" thing between elves
and dwarves simply came from the fact that their attidutes and cultures 
or so different.  (i.e.  Dwarves don't trust elves because they don't like
to live underground and would rather prance around under the stars than do
work.  Elves don't trust dwarves because they spend most of their time 
undreground, and don't take the time out to prance around under the stars.)
Even if the dwarves *did* know about elves in space, they wouldn't care.
("Let the dandelion eaters fly around their damned stars.  We have more
important work to do.")

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>Besides the really cool races 
>like Scro, Half-ogres, Half-orcs, etc..Dwarves are one of my favorites.  
>Who needs the Dandelion-eaters around anyway?

	Of course you realise, this means war... :)

>> 	I also think that the number of citadels out there numbers less
>> than one hundred.  To me that doesn't count as an "established presence".
>> Each citadel is its own "nation", and comunication between them is 
>> limited.
>
>hmmm...probably right about this, depending on the campaign setting and 
>the dominance of the Dwarven race therein.  Citadels are BIG, and I can't 
>imagine there's some kind of "assembly line" operation churning them out 
>somewhere.  Plus the fact that after the forges have used up all the 
>creative material in the citadel, it burns out and another citadel has to 
>be created.  Kind of limits the number of citadels out there by sheer 
>atrition.

	And speaking of forges, :) I've been thinking about how dwarves
get around in the flow.  What if they use some sort of plane jumping
tech, similar to the reigar Necklace of the Stars (or whatever the name
of that thing was from _An Artist's Errand_ in Dungeon #45)?

-Static

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