Re: Sa'Vasku (fwd)

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Izenberg, Noam wrote:
> A while back (not too long ago), someone posted a conceptualization of
> the SV as a macro-beings who lived in space.

that might have been me.

> I really liked it,

oh, it can't have been then :-). anyway, i have put that mail up on the
web in all its unedited glory - an html version is coming real soon now.

users.ox.ac.uk/~univ0938/gzg/savasku.mail

> and will
> probably go on thinking about them in these terms when I play FT. That
> version of the SV sort of removes them from DS or SG scale conflict,

as it stands, yes. however, that was written a month ago; there has been
considerable progess made since then - i will forward the research paper
to the list as soon as i have translated it from the X.440 format used
by 
the FSE academic networks (when will those damn french learn to use
standardised systems!).

> unless a reason for such critters ever making planetfall comes up
(e.g.
> rescue of injured comrades from a planetary gravity well?) As
mentioned
> when it was first described, that concept of the SV requires more
alien
> thinking than even the KV. 

none of the morphs described in my piece are really capable of making
planetfall. however, the SV do have an alternative lifecycle which kicks
in when planets are available, as the upcoming paper will reveal.

> That's how I learned to drink through my ears.

impressive. i can regurgitate marshmallows through my nose, but we are
probably getting into the realms of Too Much Information by now ...

Tom