Simulation of a 'star crosser' (hollowed asteroid) like in Long Sun!

Daniel Petersen · 17 May 2012, 08:59 · from 2012-May.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 09:59:09 +0100
Subject: (urth) Simulation of a 'star crosser' (hollowed asteroid) like
 in Long Sun!
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*I get that sense, but that Urth has staggered on in obstinate mediocrity
long after the mega-culture has flamed out. *

Ah, I hadn't thought of that - that's even more bleak!  I guess the only
question would be then how are the heirodules, etc. part of this 'flamed
out' mega-culture?  It would seem the whole thing is staggering on past its
'glory days' then.

*Typhon sets up shop between the trunkless legs of Ozymandias.  *

Yes.  Maybe it's part of the definition and make-up tyrant that you take no
warning from the ruins of tyrants before you.

-DOJP

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> wrote:

> On 5/17/2012 3:25 AM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
>
>> His people knew what they were doing.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, that's the assumption back of the entire Solar Cycle, which is
>> highly effective in giving a powerful sense of decay, and, even more so
>> to me, the possibility that Wolfe's narrators are only following the
>> exploits and dramas of basically 'left behind' 'backwater' communities
>> (however vast and seemingly complex and important to themselves, with an
>> Autarch and what have you).  It actually has a strong plausibility to it.
>>
>> It seems only too likely that a (inter)galactic space-faring
>> multi-terrestrial empire (or mega-galactic interaction of cultures of
>> some kind) of the magnitude suggested in the works would have 'pockets'
>> of leftover cultural decay in the 'boondocks' of that massive
>> crisscrossing of interstellar economy.  And these pockets would have
>> their overlords that would seem immensely powerful to the inhabitants,
>> but are really lackeys and peons in the larger scheme, petty tyrannical
>> landlords in the grip of an ultimately laughable megalomania - .e.g
>> Typhon.  (This would fit in very well with and hugely deepen Wolfe's
>> whole focus on the 'outcasts' in the Solar Cycle.)
>>
>> Has anybody else felt like Urth and co. are just a forgotten 'tribal
>> village' tucked away in a vastly advanced cosmic mega-culture?
>>
>
> I get that sense, but that Urth has staggered on in obstinate mediocrity
> long after the mega-culture has flamed out. Typhon sets up shop between the
> trunkless legs of Ozymandias.
>
> --
> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
> < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
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