[Torg] Tharkold and Kadandra

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Jan 3, 2008 7:23 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
> Smooge writes:
>
> >> It's not a problem for the Star Sphere so other cosms should be
> >> able to have multiple populated solar systems. The Tharkold/
>
> > Well the cosm was engineered to be accepting to all other world-laws.
> > It seemed to be specifically made so that you could plop in a world
> > and it would be 'ok man' until enough generations had occurred that it
> > would just accept the norm, maann.
>
> But just WLs, not axioms. The LoAcceptance doesn't say that there
> won't be reality clashes, just that you can use foreign WLs in
> the Star Sphere without it causing a contradiction. I think dropping
> a different reality into the Star Sphere would create the same
> reality backlash that it would create anywhere else.
>

Ah but it falls into a stable mixed zone.. so there is no reality
crash.. just a long slow windout of the worlds old axioms into the new
ones. Those mohani know how to build a cosm that can survive backlash.

> >> Well, the Land Below worked that way so there's precedent. But it's
> >> a precedent that I'd prefer to ignore. :)
>
> > Why... it makes it easier on the GM to have multiple worlds in a cosm
> > just have the world laws different. I would say it fits Occam's razor.
>
> It's not necessary for multiple worlds in one cosm to have different WLs
> any more than multiple cultures in one cosm should have different WLs.
> That's how I see the razor slicing things. Different WLs mean different
> realities to me, and by definition you can't have multiple realities
> naturally existing within a cosm.
>

Well, as I would cut it, your trying to wedge them into the same world
is basically making it 2 realities into one cosm. Tharkhold has such a
differing world view from Kadandra that I would have to say its hard
to keep them together [Well maybe Tharkhold also keeps its world laws
pumped up so that they are 'stronger'/'different' than what is in the
rest of the cosm.] There is some precedence in that, but it would
further twist what you are wanting.

I think it comes down to differing views of how big a cosm is, and we
aren't going to change either of our minds on this.. so we can just
move along :) [Since technically you are correct and I am not :)]

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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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