From:	Malcalypse The Younger <shadow@******.NET>
Subject:	Re: Astral Space <>Space ?
Date:	Wed, 26 Oct 1994 22:01:02 -0400

On Wed, 26 Oct 1994, Damion Milliken wrote:

> Shadow writes:
>
> > Hm.. Perhaps space is NOT the mana poor environment that we have been led
> > to believe, but is instead very mana RICH, but has been courrupted badly
> > by the Horrors (as has happened in ED, it's impossible to cast unfiltered
> > spells, and looking into the Astral plane is horrifying...) Hm.
> >
> > I really don't support this theory, but it would seem to fufill the
> > observed data.
>
> I might be a bit skeptical at that. Doesn't the creation/upkeep of the mana
> level also require living beings to be around? Can't be too many of those
> out in orbit.

The data that that hypothesis was created from is that there is no mana
in space... If that data is flawed, then the hypothesis is also flawed.
It does require a vast re-thinking of exactly how magic works, but...

Shadow@******.net