At 9:09 AM -0800 2/25/04, S. Ben Melhuish wrote:
>Something was nagging at the back of my brain last night, so I dug up
>"ILH1" and read up on the Reaching Moon Temples.
>
>There was a fairly extensive sidebar (don't have the book with me, so I
>don't know what page -- perhaps p. 55? It was towards the back, and the
>very nice index led me to it without much effort) which mentioned that
>the Glowline was created by "entropic engines" within the temples.
>Later in the sidebar, it's casually mentioned that Chaos is just
>misunderstood entropy.
>
>So if I'm reading this right, there are giant Chaos engines pumping
>Shepelkirt-only-knows-what-kind-of-energy across the Lunar empire.
It seems to me that this line of reasoning, ironically, holds best if
you accept the Lunar view that choas is just an expression of the
natural force of entropy rather than being inherently evil.
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