| From: | Shaun E. Gilroy shaung@**********.net |
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| Subject: | Elf/Dwarf Transforms, Part 2 (was RE: Breeder definition) |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:39:56 -0500 |
>I think Mark Renouf's point about the staggering number of births is
>correct: you start out with lots of genes expressing themselves because
>the parents would have been born as that metatype, and metahuman births
>to humans start to settle down after a generation. Just assume that
>the demographics of the Shadowrun world were basically the same in 2010
>as they are in 2050, only that the percentages of metatypes were unknown
>at the time, as they were unexpressed. Forty years lets you churn a
>lot of population. (To get really detailed, we have to acknowledge
>that there hasn't been a complete replacement of the 2010 population; the
>percentages of latent Elves and Dwarfs were probably higher than the 2050
>demographic, since there are still people left from before the Awakening;
>the percentages of Orks and Trolls could be lower because they have
>a shorter generational time and Orks in particular have lots of kids.)
This raises only one question in my mind: "What about the IE?"
Were the Immortal elves in hiding/hibernating like the Dragons or did they
goblinize? with the return of Magic?
>%% Max Rible %%%
Shaun Gilroy [shaung@**********.net]
Online Technologies Corp.
