Alberto Monteiro wrote: >The reason was that the book was _initially_ made with a much longer >lifespan for each race [with races living for hundreds of millions, >or even thousands of millions of years]
See, that makes a little more sense to me, in that it grants a lot more stability to the Four Galaxies. Races coming and going at a rate of 1M per seems like obscenely fast turnover for a 3 billion year-old society. >Heaven's Reach is explicit in the mention that most races "live" >about 1 million years, then pass to the Retired Order. Races that >live much longer [like the Thenanin, 30 My] should be the exception, >not the rule. So for CA we should divide all the long-lived races' timelines by 10? :-) >Also, races that do more than _one_ Uplift should be the exception, >not the rule [unless you count Uplift-consorting], otherwise >there would be too many races with _no_ Clients! I can't really agree with that. The implication in all the books is clearly that there are hundreds of races totaling trillions of beings. Plenty of pre-sapients for all. And of course, clearly most of the important clans have multiple clients, often concurrently. >The "refitting" of CA to the new timeline was not complete, so we >have some "paradoxes" :-) I dunno, I liked my idea better. Maybe it's from a youth misspent hoping to gain an all-important Marvel "No-Prize" for explaining such paradoxes, but I though it sounded good! :-) >Alberto Monteiro, commander of the TimeLine Legions of Terror Ooh, what's it like having your very own Legions? You *have* been following the "What not to do when you're an Evil Overlord" guidelines, right? ;-) Jim Yummy, delicious nits Maru _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
