needles and eastward ho!

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 11:44:48 +1200


jd1196:

gave the example of a merman hunter to confute the hypothesis that merman rarely use metals.

>A bronze needle is better than a bone one, and IMO will have
>rusted away long after the bone one had broken.

But a bone needle can be replaced with far greater ease than a metal needle in the environment of a merman. Therefore it would be better for him to use bone needles, methinks.

Joerg Baumgartner:


Wrote on the Kethaelan expedition to Kralorela. IMO there was a significant lapse between the period that they arrived in the Suam Chow and the battle against the Kralorelean Fleet.

The Kethaelan Fleet managed to strike up friendly relations with the Exarch of Wanzow while they were berthed at Lur Nop. However when news of this reached the Capital, paranoid officials who feared another invasion persuaded Godunya to mobilize the Imperial Fleet to destroy the intruders. The name of the local exarch was Can Shu and after this disgrace he was posted/exiled to Bliss in Ignorance.

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