Re: New Pelorian and Language Engineering

From: bethexton <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:40:13 -0000

>
> Generally speaking, the shortest version of the ongoing history of
the
> Lunar Empire and the Lunar Way goes like this:
>
> a) a good and pious Lunar discovers something marvellous that
will
> make life more wonderful for everybody;
>
> b) the Empire gets their hands on it and puts it to use. This
> almost certainly involves not making life wonderful for everybody,
and
> quite possibly involves Bad Things happening to the original
discoverer.
>
Oh please, can someone save that statement for posterity? It sums up so much of what the empire means to me!

--Bryan