From:	bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject:	The "S" Files - Conspiracy Paranoia
Date:	Sat, 28 Sep 1996 02:28:39 -0500 (EST)

OK I realize I'm starting to sound like a Horror paranoid, but it's 2 a.m.,
and I just had a really odd idea. . .

Has FASA ever really come out and said that the setting of ED is Earth?
I was re-reading Threats, Portfolio of a Dragon, and the core rulebook, and
some things started clicking in my head.

1. Call me fixated, but those pics of the UFO on Mars in DS:PoaD really have
me wondering where FASA plans to go with this alien lifeform business.

2. Check out the small color text section in the critters section of the
core book. The part that contemplates just where Dragons and other
six-limbed critters came from.

3. The myriad comments about the dangers of magic in space, coupled with the
VERY intriguing mage in the Damien Knight story by Tom Dowd.

4. Stories about the Horrors coming from a distant plane, travelling along a
bridge, etc.

5. The Atlantean Conspiracy, and Elves working to control the Earth/summon
the horrors. Combined with the old "Chariots of the Gods" UFO/mythology deal.

All this informetion is leading me to one of several conclusions. . .
ED is either A) Earth's past - a possibility, and one that certainly stands
up to Occam's Razor. B) Another planet - and the elves, Dragons and Horrors
traveled here from there via UFO. C) And this one is looking promising -
Another Dimension/Alternate Timeline.

Right now, I'm thinking that B or C are good possibilities.
Here's why.

Everyone knows the elves are up to something.
We know the Horrors are coming from someplace else.
DS:PoaD points toward the possibility of life "elsewhere"
Horror Magic and Thread Magic are alien concepts to the SR world.
Fovea (from Atzlan) and the Big D's "Manastorm could be either dimensional
rifts, or rips in the time/space continuum.

I realize that this is all very disjointed, and I apologize for that, since
I'm posting in the wee hours of the morning. :-) (Why am I still concious? :-))

I'd like some feedback on this notion.
Where/when does ED take place?
Is magic something alien introduced to the planet Earth by strange visitors
from another planet?
Are dragons really aliens in disguise?
Are the metaplanes truly different dimensions?
Am I totally flipping my lid?
<flip. flip. flip. "Guess so!>



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