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Message no. 1
From: Adrien HOOCK a_hoock@*************.fr
Subject: IEs and Thera in SR
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:53:16 +0200
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Hi, I just read the last Digest and something crossed my mind :

Why would Thera still be "unrediscovered" in 2054 if a few immortal and VERY
powerful beings knew of its existence and probably its location.
Take the Great Dragons for instance (or at least the majority of them), they spent a
lot of time and effort to fight off the Theran Empire in ED so why wouldn't they have come
back in the 2010's to ensure that nothing remained of such a terrible civilisation ?
I know, I know Thera was probably controlled by the Heavenheards who wouldn't let this
happen but still, I think they didn't wait for the Atlantean Foundation to find out where
Thera was. (just a thought, the Heavenheards are said to live in Azania in SR, isn't it
somewhere in South Africa instead of Amazonia ?)
Could Thera have the same kind of spell as Parlainth ?

Tell me what you think about this !

Oh, in case this was too lame a question, forgive my ignorance : )

One last question (a tricky one I guess) :

What the hell is Harlequin doing in Madagascar ? guarding Dunkelzahn's eggs since he
"retired" ? (Cyberpirates! p130-133)

Any comment welcome !

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, I just read the last Digest and
something
crossed my mind :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why would Thera
still be
"unrediscovered" in 2054 if a few immortal and VERY powerful beings knew of its
existence and probably its location.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Take the Great
Dragons
for&nbsp;instance (or at least the majority of them), they spent a lot of time
and effort to fight off the Theran Empire in ED so why wouldn't they have come
back in the 2010's to ensure that nothing remained of such a terrible
civilisation ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I know, I know Thera
was probably
controlled by the Heavenheards who wouldn't let this happen but still, I think
they didn't wait for the Atlantean Foundation to find out where Thera was. (just
a thought, the Heavenheards are said to&nbsp;live in Azania in SR, isn't it
somewhere in South Africa&nbsp;instead of Amazonia ?)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Could Thera have the
same kind of spell
as Parlainth ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tell me what you
think about this
!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Oh, in case this was too&nbsp;lame a question,
forgive my
ignorance : )</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>One last question (a tricky one I guess)
:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>What the hell is Harlequin doing in Madagascar ?
guarding
Dunkelzahn's eggs since he "retired" ? (Cyberpirates!
p130-133)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Any comment welcome
!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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Message no. 2
From: Sebastian Wiers m0ng005e@*****.com
Subject: IEs and Thera in SR
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:17:27 -0500
Adrien HOOCK sent a HTML formated message saying:
>>> Why would Thera still be "unrediscovered" in 2054 if a few
immortal
and VERY powerful beings knew of its existence and probably its location.

Because its "location" doesn't exist anymore. It was cataclysmically
destoyed by magical events. Items from Threa may very well have been
distributed around the world by "teleportation". Well, not really
teleportation, but a vaugely described means in ED where a destoryed magical
item of great power can re-form in a new location.

>>> Could Thera have the same kind of spell as Parlainth ?

Probably not, even if they had tried. The level of magic was much
higher when Parlainth pulled up stakes and went missing- the scourge was
literally already begun. Thera was destoyed because magic was waining
worldwide, and they used dangerous mentods to keep it high within Thera.
Besides, they would have had to fool a lot of powerful magical
personalities, all of whom are convinced it was destroyed (or even had a
hand in its destruction). Of course, Parlainth fooled everybody, too...

>>>What the hell is Harlequin doing in Madagascar ? guarding Dunkelzahn's
eggs since he "retired" ? (Cyberpirates! p130-133)

Who the hell knows? I'd love it if Steve Kenson would answer this
myself...
OTOH, a lot of "hooks" are just that- undeveloped ideas the author
inserted without solid plans for future use. Sometimes the "hook" gets used
later for an entirely different purpose than the author planned, in fact.


Mongoose

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Message no. 3
From: TalonMail@***.com TalonMail@***.com
Subject: IEs and Thera in SR
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:49:02 EDT
>>>What the hell is Harlequin doing in Madagascar ? guarding Dunkelzahn's

>eggs since he "retired" ? (Cyberpirates! p130-133)

>

>Who the hell knows? I'd love it if Steve Kenson would answer this

>myself...

Would if I could, but I didn't really have anything to do with Cyberpirates,
so I can speak to the authors' original intent (if any). Since Chris & Jenny
probably won't be working with FASA again in the forseeable future, I imagine
their original intent is irrelevant, and some future author may pick up that
thread (and others in Cyberpirates) and take in any nearly any direction.

As Sebastian pointed out, a lot of hooks and hints in SR are ones with
definite plans behind them, while others are just seeds dropped to see if
they'll sprout something. Often they do in the most surprising ways,
sometimes years later.

Steve Kenson

Talon Studio
http://members.aol.com/talonmail

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