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A few posters have mentioned that they did not feel that certain plotlines were wrapped up in the first arc - so here's a thread to ask them in.
No complaining or general moaning please, just ask your question and we can try to figure out answers, or maybe if we're lucky Barry or Steve might pop by and tell us.
My query - Terror Firma were stated as being terraformers. Were they terraforming UP planets as the grand-parents of the armies of exiled beings Lemnos had gathered had been dumped onto non-Earth like planets and the UP planets weren't suitable for them?
Thinking this through I guess this might also explain why UP citizens were more human looking as the Exiled would have adapted (or been adapted) to the non-Earth planets.
Any other plot threads that have you scratching your head?
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how long has the United Planets been in existence? in an early issue it was referred to as recently formed. but now Terror Firma are descendants of exiled UP criminals.
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Who was filling the Legion's bank accounts? Lemnos?
How exactly did Orando figure into the UP economic system? Are we going to see the results of it's destruction in a way similar to the economic disruption caused by the Magic Wars in previous continuity?
Given there's a couple extra flight rings available (providing Brainy lets someone have Nura's), are we going to have new members?
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What exactly is Brin Londo's status with the team? Why does he have a flight ring if he's not a member?
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I didn't understand too much about the 5th dimension aspect ...
1) Why did the Legion team who came across Skelter have changed/opposite powers, only to have their original powers return the next issue (#11&12)?
2) Was Skelter wandering around in dimension 5, or was he part of Lemnos' army?
3) Assuming Lemnos used the 5th dimension as a staging point for his armies and to be free of the Public Service, wouldn't his army succumb to the PS once it went thru the transmatter gates? Did he have a block like the Legion Flight Rings (his abilities?) or was he counting on Cosmic Boy to shut the PS down (if so, how could he have guessed that)?
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quote:Originally posted by Awkward Pause Boy: Why would you engineer technology to shrink your population instead of just genetically engineering them to be smaller?
I can answer this from an anthropological standpoint. (In case you care.)
I'm sure you've heard of natural selection-- it's that thing nature does to help living things adapt to their surroundings. Humans have, for many generations, done something called artificial selection. They find a trait they like, say a docile cow, and breed it with docile bulls. Over time, all of the offspring will become docile, assuming no other traits are bread into the pool. So, now, you have docile cows. Good right?
Well, kind of. Because the cow is docile, it is now completely dependent on humans. In fact, that's why kids can go 'cow tipping'-- the cows are so docile, they won't even struggle to get up. They will just lay there until they die. So, you got the trait you wanted but it came at a cost.
Now, imaging you're breeding humans (or Coluans or whatever). You could breed the shortest ones together or genetically select the short genes and make them dominant in the population. But, who knows what kinds of costs that would have? It might create new diseases or have other ramifications that you can't see.
It's much safer, in that aspect, to simply use technological alterations. Shrink the planet and the people on it, there'll be no genetic side effects. Everything can continue as it was. Plus, genetic variation can take many generations to work or to perfect it. Evolution is a very slow prospect, often taking many generations. I doubt the Coluans would be so patient.
There, one long rambly post explaining why an anthropologist would agree with Waid. >.> Yeah. Sorry. Just couldn't help myself...
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Just a side note. Shortness has been bred into homonids before. If anyone wants to know more just go to nationalgeographic.com and run a search for hobbits.
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Strangely the phenomenon of pygmy or giant-sized versions of species occurs quite frequently with isolated populations. The frequent meme of 'monster island' seen often in fiction probably originates from this empirical observation.
quote:Originally posted by Kid Quislet: 3) Assuming Lemnos used the 5th dimension as a staging point for his armies and to be free of the Public Service, wouldn't his army succumb to the PS once it went thru the transmatter gates? Did he have a block like the Legion Flight Rings (his abilities?) or was he counting on Cosmic Boy to shut the PS down (if so, how could he have guessed that)?
If I understood LSH 13 correctly, most of Lemnos' troops were descendants of exiles from the UP worlds. Having spent their entire lives outside of UP space, they had never been placed on the Public Service. Not sure it would have made any difference, though. The PS *monitors* underagers; it is not clear that it *could* have been used to prevent Lemnos' troops from attacking (whether the PS has additional functions has been a subject of some speculation hereabouts, but so far it remains speculation).
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Lots of unanswered questions about the Science Police: their history, how they split responsibilities with the U.P. - but specifically, where were they during the great battle of issue #13? We saw them working alongside with the kids after destruction of the HQ, but not in the actual battle scenes.
quote:Originally posted by Gorilla Nebula: how long has the United Planets been in existence? in an early issue it was referred to as recently formed. but now Terror Firma are descendants of exiled UP criminals.
In the earlier issues it says that all the current generation, their parents and grand parents have known is the banality of life under the UP. Given that a generation is roughl;y 30 years right now, would it be too much to imagine that in another 1000 years it might be say 50 years? If that's the case it could be 150 years since they exiled Lemnos' armies ancestors.
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The pirates: the story was sort of wrapped up when the pirates were captured, but I'd like to know what happened to the kids who had been previously captured and if there are other bands of pirates operating.
On the Colu large population = diversity - why do they all dress and look alike? Could the diversity apply only to their minds - and they're so intellectually evolved that they've moved beyond fashion?
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