Re: Unhuman War

Hello everyone,

In our last episode, Abe Brown said:
>>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.
>
>The idear that the orcs found rather than created the WM is
>interesting but it still poses the question if not the orcs who or
>what did create them.

	As I mentioned in my previous post, one idea is that they come 
from Witchlight.  Nowadays, Withclight is a small sphere off the beaten
path.  It's filled with asteroids (class A earth and water bodies) and
stars (class A fire bodies).  Pretty much a lifeless shell, except for
the space maruader sleeping in its center, where the sun should be.
	But the sphere wasn't always so desolate.  Eleven hundred
years ago, this sphere had seven planets orbiting a small, bright sun.
The third and fourth planet were both populated by near-human humanoids.
A war that's been waging for the past 200 years was reaching its climax.
The Ayne, people from the thickly vegetated fourth planet, had developed 
a weapon so powerful, that could destroy a Llowee homeworld -- a space 
marauder!  It was grown in utter secrecy around the fourth moon.
	The Llowee, who inhabited the third planet, were working on 
their own planet-killer -- a way to direct solar flares!  Living on the
closest habitable world to the sun, they were intimate with its strange
workings.  (Treat their magic as simple Sun Magic from Astromundi 
Cluster.)
	The Llowee got wind of the Ayne plan, and tried to use their
ultimate weapon to destroy the first marauder.
	Obviously, it failed.
	Their sun exploded into a million pieces, forming the stars that
float around inside the sphere.  The violent explosion caused the planets,
one of which was a class J (!) earth world, to follow.  The planet's 
remains are what formed the earth and water asteroids.
	Four primary maruaders survived, along with their "mother".
When the orcs came, they found and took three of the children who were
hibernating on and asteroid together.  During UWI, one was destoryed,
one trapped on armistace, and one was eaten by a gammeroid -- the
Gammaro marauder from Goblins' Return and Heart of the enemy.

	Any comments?

-Static

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