Re: Witchlight Marauders (was Re: Unhuman War)

Hello all,

In our last episode, Wilson, M.D. said:
>[snip]

>I agree with your basic premise--that the WM were found, not
>created--however, consider how lucky the orcs would have to be to find the
>primary & co. between the time they arrived on the planet and the time when
>they multiplied an hundredfold and devastated the planetary ecology,
>including each other. It's possible, but unlikely.

	What nobody seems to be mentioning is that primary witchlights
are spawned from a space witchlight marauder.  One of my theories is that
the marauders came from Witchlight, a dark, star-filled sphere, where
the space marauder was a unique creature.  One tribe of orcs simply 
captured a few of its "children" and brought them back to known space.
These orcs told everyone they created the creature, and kept the secret
of the sphere hidden.  (They wanted to keep the power for themselves.)
With the defeat of the orcs, the sphere's location was lost.  But the
space marauder still exists, somewhere, out there, sleeping, waiting...

>Perhaps they were found on a "tubeworld." That is, a world which isn't a
>great globular ball but instead a tangled rats-nest of spaghetti-like
>strings surrounding a primary. Because WM can't fly, they can't spread
>geometrically as they could under standard conditions, and the devastation
>is limited to their walking speed. When the orbit alone is 300 million
>miles along the edge, that's a lot of walking; and most times, the tubes
>will be snarled enough that the actual "length" of the world is far
>greater. You could drop a WM on one end, and four hundred years later they
>would still be munching their way methodically along the rim.

	This world is a pretty cool idea all on its own. :)  It would 
look cool if it was filled with rainforests and tropical birds flying
between the tubes.

-Static

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