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Cinder Spires Setting discussion [TAW Sample Chapter SPOILERS]
Aesir:
Polydactyl cats with opposable "thumbs" on their front paws are not uncommon in the real world. The polydactyal gene is considered dominant, but its expression is variable such that the number of extra toes produced and whether or not they're opposable can vary. There are likely other still to be identified genes that effect its expression.
The hypothesis that this series takes place in a human colony world where technology has regressed, perhaps due to the "iron rot", at least in part, sounds like a good one to me. I must also admit to being curious how "the enemy" factors into this world's history and development.
Phaeton Seraph:
--- Quote from: Aesir on October 05, 2015, 09:48:24 AM ---Polydactyl cats with opposable "thumbs" on their front paws are not uncommon in the real world. The polydactyal gene is considered dominant, but its expression is variable such that the number of extra toes produced and whether or not they're opposable can vary. There are likely other still to be identified genes that effect its expression.
The hypothesis that this series takes place in a human colony world where technology has regressed, perhaps due to the "iron rot", at least in part, sounds like a good one to me. I must also admit to being curious how "the enemy" factors into this world's history and development.
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Well, the enemy could be native to the world.
wyltok:
--- Quote from: Langy on October 05, 2015, 06:57:34 AM ---'Habble' seems to obviously be an amalgam of 'Habitat' and 'Level'.
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My thought as well.
Quantus:
OK, New question on the Spires, specifically their dimensions.
Spire Albion is "ten thousand feet high, two miles across. There are two-hundred and fifty habbles, of which two-hundred and thirty-six are occupied." -Ch 20
Ill save you the conversion factors and say that it's 10,000 ft tall by 10,560 ft wide. The word "spire" was evocative of, you know, pointy things; something tall and narrow and shrinking down to a point. But Ablion is actually slightly wider than it is tall, making it as squat as any Egyptian pyramid, which in turn makes me wonder if it comes to a point at all, or if it's a more uniform cylinder. Otherwise the differences of available space per habble will be fairly extreme.
Thoughts on this?
Mith:
There are older structures on the planet that are more Spire-like, and Albion is one of the newer designs, so the name had already been in use when Spire Albion was built.
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