Re: Elven Navy

---Grimwulf <slvf5@??.???.edu> wrote:
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>
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> On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Static wrote:
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> > Greetings all,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 	:) The dwarves have an established presence in wildspace?
>
> Nice.  :>
>
> >
> > 	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 think that as soon as the Dwarves found out the Elves were flying
> around "up" there, they immediately began to solve the problem of
> 'jamming themselves.  Why sit idly by while the Elves plunder the
worlds'
> resources?  The Dwarves would have felt they had as much right (or
> actually probably more) to them as the Elves did!  Oh yeah, and just
to
> let you know, this is a biased opinion.  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?
>
> > 	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.
>
> > -Static
>
> Alway's enjoy your comments Static.
>
> --Grimwulf
>
Grimwulf,

   I will have to agree with you on the reason why the dwarves are in
wildspace. It sounds like a logical reason(logical? who said this
thing had to be logical).
   But I will disagree with the both of you about the actual number of
citadels out there. While the design of the forge limits the
availability of the citadels wildspace is after all a big place....and
in a place that big why would you want to limit a thing to a mere one
hundred.
   Thanks for listening.
            Spike
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