(urth) Yesod- what is it?

António Marques entonio at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 15:56:39 PDT 2010


DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> What I was thinking is that, if the Hieromakers escaped to Yesod, it
> must have been available to them somehow. Perhaps it was discovered
> through FTL travel. Given that common SF tropes underly the books---and
> the older tropes are often deployed in TBotNS as though they were simple
> things we learned as children, because we DID learn them as
> children---it seems possible. And we know from Star Trek that it is
> possible to live and breathe there in a ship.
>
> If they had then learned to colonize hyperspace, it could lead to
> completely artifical machine planets like Apheta's, there being no
> native ones to colonize.
>
> Just a thought. For all I know, this would mean that the Yesodi planets
> must all be travelling at N or FTL to stay in hyperspace.

Yeah, that's interesting. I just have problems with the 
living-in-hyperspace thing, but that's not relevant here.



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