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>
> > Jérôme is right, we know little about
> > how Arkat and his heirs ruled, what the state religion (if any) was, how
> (and
> > if) Arkat's teaching were passed to younger generations, etc. etc.
>
> My thinking.
>
<snip lots of great stuff>
Very nice! My only quibble is the idea that Arkat knew *everything* that his lieutenants did, which I don't think is necessarily true. Arkat was probably aware of most of what his lieutenants discovered, but Arkat mostly established the pattern for others to follow and focused his efforts on finding tools that would help him accomplish his goals. Individual lieutenants may well have experimented on their own and achieved innovations that Arkat did not care to master because it didn't serve his purposes.
Still, this is such a minor quibble that it hardly matters.
-Kevin McD
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