Re: Chaos and Storm

From: David Weihe <weihe_at_eagle.danet.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:26:18 EDT

> From: "Richard, Jeff" <Jeff.Richard_at_metrokc.gov>
> Morgan writes:
> >My question remains - why is chaos "unnatural" and middle air "natural"?
>
> You correctly point out that on at least one plane of analysis, Umath's
> behavior is not terribly different from the Unholy Trio. However, no
> Orlanthi would agree with that. For them, "chaos" is the penultimate taboo.

If that is the penultimate, what is the Ultimate taboo?

> It encompasses a range of actions, rituals, beings and even thoughts, that
> traditionalist Orlanthi are firmly convinced threatens to destroy existence.

My view is that the various Wars of the Gods involved greater and greater destructive forces, and that Chaos seems to have pushed the envelope to the point that it appears qualitatively different.

As an analogy, the Wars between Earth and Sea were fought with chemical explosives (yielding a few billionths of the mass into energy), between Sky and Earth with low-yield fission (yielding a few millionths of the rest mass), between Storm and Sky with fusion bombs (a few thousands of the mass disapears into energy), and between Chaos and Storm with antimatter (annihilating twice the total mass). To push it, Chaos actually used subspace distorting powers which could make the whole battlefield "not there anymore", like something from the ST Voyager episode where the Holographic Doctor journeyed in the holosuite through the pages of Beowulf.

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