Re: RE: DSII & SGII: Looking for info on Jerry Pournelle's Saurons
From: Kevin_Walker@h...
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:44:18 -0400
Subject: Re: RE: DSII & SGII: Looking for info on Jerry Pournelle's Saurons
>>I have a friend that wants to create a Sauron army based on Jerry
>>Pournelle's (?) books like Mote in God's Eye. What other books are
the
>>Sauron's in? I've searched the internet for "Saurons" & only found 1
>>reference to them. Does anyone have suggestions how to model their
>>forces in DSII & SGII?
>>Thanks,
>>Nils
> I can't remember any 'Saurons' in 'Mote in God's Eye'. In fact I
pretty
> sure that the Humans and Moties were the only two races (unless the
> Saurons is another name for the moties). There is a sequel, the Mote
> around Murchuson's Eye. (By Niven and Pournelle, as was the original)
The Saurons were the result of a specialized breeding program
that was an attempt at making a genetically advance human. I
believe this was attempted on a planetary scale. The never
appeared in the story directly, there were only refered to as
a historical note.
Kevin Walker (Kevin_Walker@hazmat.noaa.gov)
(KevinW4029@aol.com)
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