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From:     Ryan deCanada <ryan_de_canada@???????.com>
Date:     Thu, 01 Jan 1998 16:33:59 PST
Subject:  Re: Terraspace timeline
>Somebody said:
>If nothing has yet been written about Earth in Terraspace, why not
>set the current date on earth as pre-last Iceage.  This way we can
>put in a few small empires without historical contradiction - the
>Iceage wiped away all trace of them, and we can run it as the
>beginning of an alternate Earth timeline (where the Ice Age didn't
>wipe it away).

>I wouldn't do that because we might as well just make up our own
>planets and create some empires. I suggest keep it as is and maybe
>work on some legends such as an empire in the Antartic or even the
>kingdom of Prester John in Africa (or Gog and Magog). For those
>purists we can say that Earth never got spelljammer technology but
>those who visited Earth could have been mistaken for the gods. An
>interesting myth I heard was that a wooden statue of Athena
>fell from the heavens and landed in Athens and was put into the
>Acropolis.
>Maybe a spelljamming ship was flying over and it fell out.
>

But what DATE could we use so that all these cool civs would exist
(as opposed to a few primitive tribes and Greece - situation).

deCanada

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Terraspace timeline    David Sarkies    01 Jan 1998 10:20:08
Re: Terraspace timeline    Ryan deCanada    02 Jan 1998 00:33:59
Terraspace timeline    David Sarkies    12 Jan 1998 05:46:18

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