Re: The Known Spheres - Was: Known Space

From: "Jeff Stembel" <jeff@??????????.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:26 AM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] The Known Spheres - Was: Known Space


> David Shepheard wrote:
>> I don't see the elven navy as colonising planets. D&D campaign settings 
>> existed long before Spelljammer and I got the impression that they all 
>> have their own mythology that has the elves being placed their by the 
>> gods.
>
> They definitely colonize planets; Spiral is listed as an "elf colony 
> world."  I'd say they don't colonize planets (or maybe just continents) 
> that already have a major human/demihuman population of low intelligence 
> or higher; they might crusade against goblinoids already inhabiting prime 
> real-estate though.  I think they would not hesitate to colonize any 
> arboreal planet with no sentient life.  They may have some sort of 
> non-interference belief similar to Star Trek's Prime Directive (although 
> no where near as strict).

That sounds good Jeff.

I actually think that the elven "prime directive" would actually be *more* 
strict than the Star Trek one. After all they did take 500 or so years to 
decide to attack the goblinoid ships. I would guess that the goblinoids were 
operating under some sort of elven immunity in the early days and that the 
elven admirals needed to gain some sort of proof, before an attack was 
authorised.

I think that an elven "prime directive" should be more connected to 
protecting nature than protecting primative civilisation. You could actually 
create a directive where the elves are actually *authorised* to tweak 
civilisations in order to slowly push them into the directions they want 
them to go in.

If you thrown in a rule that an attack on any elves is seen as an attck on 
all elves, you can probably come up with some fairly complex behavior that, 
while based on Star Trek, bears little relationship to it.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
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