>"To save Arrolaint, we had to destroy it." In extremis, the Brithini
>tend to draw on any resource availble, regardless of the consequences.
>That's why some of their forlorn little colonies are such miserable
>places. Once they'd tapped out all the renewable resources, they sort
>of strip-mined the intangibles like Hope, Color, Imagination (not
>necessary to the lower castes, of course) and so forth.
Yikes! Tapping is rather worse than I had imagined. "We tapped the Warmth out of the Sun; who thought it would get used up so quickly?"
>The Talars (rulers) seem to be more concerned with defending their
>immortal lives and those of the people under their care (Farmers,
>Soldiers, Zaburri) at what seems any price than ethics or aesthetics.
I'm sure it seams reasonable to them....
Peter Larsen
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