Re: Known Space

From: "Adam Miller" <night_druid3000@?????.com>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Known Space


>I took a quick look at Paul's timeline.  Removing
> Astronumdi from the equation, we have elves exploring
> as early as 20,000 years ago.  I think an abbreviated
> timeline would look like this:
>
> ~ -20k -first explorations of modern known space by
> elves originating from "beyond".
>
> ~ -10k -SJ elves crash on Toril.
>
<snip>
> ~ -250 -Bral founded
>
>
> Looking at this, I'd say that it can be summarized as
> such:
>
> -20k to -5k: ancient times.  A few ships of the Elven
> Fleet explore the area, but overall not much SJ
> activity.
>
> -5k to -1k: colonization era.  Starting with the
> Kreen, many races settle various worlds.  "Known
> Space" mostly the Radiant Triangle.
>
> -1k to present: Age of Piracy.  More colonies founded,
> Known Space spreads, the Inner Flow takes shape,
> Unhuman Wars, several pirates become reknown.

This is all good historical information, but doesn't give much information 
on humans, dwarves, gnomes and halflings.

We know that almost all wilspace gnomes are Tinker Gnomes (or Krynnish 
Gnomes). That takes care of that. We can work from the mention of Gnome 
ships in Beyond the Moons, to work out a possible space colonisation date. 
(Given that date was a *long* time ago, I'd suggest waves of colonisation + 
secondary colonisation from Reorx = tertiary colonisation from planets in 
other crystal spheres.)

The write up of dwarves mostly takes care of them, as they are implied to be 
sphere bound in the description.

Spacefaring halflings seem very underdeveloped to me. Apart from the 
agressive Anadian halflings, I'm not really sure how to pitch their history.

Humans (now) form the main focus for civilisation, so I really need to wind 
time back for *them* and see how *they* got into wildspace.

I don't think that information about the elves helps us, because I'm sure 
the elves would have kept everyone else out of wildspace, if they could have 
gotten away with it.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
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