Re: Background, second draft

[Dave Fancella <david.fancella@comcast.net>]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 02:16 pm, Chang wrote:
> And still, I don`t have any idea what I should say...

Ok, the original question is "Are the Kandelians human or not?"  I wrote the 
story with the Kandelians being an extra-terrestrial intelligence, so that I 
could write all kinds of neat stuff about Kandelian society and so forth 
without having to deal with human psychology.  Jens had been thinking of them 
as a separated branch of humanity, with either common ancestors elsewhere 
(i.e. Earth isn't the ancestral home of humanity), or with Earth as the 
ancestral home of humanity but the Kandelians are an offshoot, possibly from 
early space exploration, like the Vulcan/Romulus relationship.

So, show of hands, who wants the Kandelians to be alien, and who wants them to 
be human?  Any other ideas?

Dave

> Only an idea, keeping room for some independent factions is good, I
> agree, if there is no small factions, then it would be only battles
> between two or three major organizations, and if there is any small
> faction, there maybe could be a weapon that only a clan have at the
> start, and after the player has completed a mission taking over the
> technology or making an items exchange could the weapon be used(built)
> in later mission. Should be good for introducing a new unit I suppose.
>
> > > But as with all good things, the Empire came to an end, leaving as
> > > its sole memories the dating system and the observatories.
> >
> > Up to this point the story may have been retold by an unbiased
> > historian, but here you add personal judgement.
> >
> > > The western portion of the continent adopted a series of democracies
> > > not unlike the European Union of old.
> >
> > The western portion of what continent? No continents have been
> > mentioned so far.
> >
> > > own. Seeing this barbarism, the Kingdoms of the East decided it was
> > > time to intervene, but crippled by their own sharply factionalized
> > > society, they quickly became entrenched in a war that wouldn't reach
> > > its conclusion.
> > >
> > > The former People's Republic of Kerlo managed to overthrow their Tyarin
> > > overlords and establish a new democracy.
> >
> > The change here is pretty abrupt. One second the Tyarins and KotE are
> > stuck in a war, the next Kerlo won. Huh? Easily solved by adding "In the
> > end, the former... themselves." or so I guess.
> >
> > > They went on to conquer the Island of Tyarin, where they were able
> > > to solve most of the problems that had originally motivated the Tyarins
> > > to war in the first place. Claiming to know that the fabled city of
> > > Allantha existed within its borders,
> >
> > Where? In old Kerlo, or on Tyarin?
> >
> > > they declared themselves to be the
> > > sole government of Nexus. This new force began moving across the main
> > > continent towards the Kingdoms of the East. When the two armies finally
> > > defeated the last of the Tyarins, they faced each other across the
> > > battlefield.
> >
> > I thought they had already defeated the Tyarins on the mainland?
> > Maybe my map image is wrong. If you have something like this:
> >
> >     ~          \                                 /
> >           ~     \                               /
> >      ~       ~   \                              |
> >      ----------   \       Kerlo                 /
> >     /          \ ~ \                           /      KotE
> >
> >    |   Tyarin  |    \                          |
> >
> >  ~  \          /     ------------------        \
> >      ----------   ~             ~       \        \
> >
> > and Kerlo broke free of the invaders, they went west, won, came back,
> > and won again? Against whom?
> >
> > > Nexus began to stabilize itself again as the war finally ended in
> > > the year of 2437.
> >
> > According to the story so far there is now only the Republic of Nexus
> > left. While it's probably good to have a major player I think we should
> > still leave a little room for some independent factions. And thus we
> > return to the question of continents...
> >
> > Jens
>
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