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Warmaster wrote:i was thinking shipomi, but they sort of belong with the senteint beings anyway...mmm, time to go almea hunting

Not so:

The descent of les?asi wrote:There are two main branches of lutinids, the shipomi and the ilii. The former exist in many species, and have only about the intelligence of monkeys.

Jaaaaaa wrote:...oops. Shoot me now.

Nah.

That's all well and good, but he said besides the sentient beings.

I would also think that a moonless planet would have rougher waters than one with a satelite? Difficult to say; I'm not really sure what effect tides have on overall ocean behavior once you get away from the shore. My guess would be no, the absence of tides wouldn't make waters rougher; that's most...

Shades Of Grey wrote:So if a planet was alone in a system, and was trhe only mass arder than lets say a few hundred miles, except for the sun, and the planet had no moons it would have no tide?

No noticable one anyway.

I would also think that a moonless planet would have rougher waters than one with a satelite? Difficult to say; I'm not really sure what effect tides have on overall ocean behavior once you get away from the shore. My guess would be no, the absence of tides wouldn't make waters rougher; that's most...

3, I believe, smaller moons. Means Almea has much more complicated tides. Though I'm curious to see how that would work...and on that note, how a tides (if at all) could fuction without a satelite. Without any satellite of significant size, tides would be far too small to notice. The Sun and other ...

zompist wrote:

Dudicon wrote:Sweet, I found the other one:

bobo fool

I'm so proud of myself.

Quite right on servo, but not here... I think I took bobo from Spanish... probably from the Peter Sellers movie.

Hmm... Intriguing. I guess I'll have to look again.

Sweet, I found the other one:

bobo fool

I'm so proud of myself.

Ah! I found one!

servo puppet

One to go... hmm...

zompist wrote:By the way, there's two tributes to MST3K in the vocabulary of Cadhinor. See if you can find them...

I guess it just goes to show what a geek I am... I'm actually looking for them .

ConlangArtist wrote:I was talking about Chia Sha

Wow, this post has a really weird vibe to it.

By the way, a question: I inferred from the Atlas that the Greeks coming to Almea was unintentional (at least on the part of the Greeks themselves); however, there wasn't much to go on. Is this a correct assumption? Yes... if I ever write this story, I'd have fun with when exactly they realize they...

Just did and might I say, wow. In a good way and a bad way. I mean, I haven't really come across anything I don't like very much in Z's stuff, but I just can't see why this is necessary. In fact, it seems to me totally unprecedented, out of the blue, and extremely out of place in with the other Alm...

Umm... what are we talking about here? I've never heard of this scenario, and it sounds very interesting. Could someone please fill me in on the details? Better still, why don't you check out what happened in the Historical Atlas, in 2870 Just did and might I say, wow. In a good way and a bad way. ...

Were the Greeks who found themselves suddenly in Almea literate? I think it would be interesting to see how they would have written the Almean languages (for the life of me, I cannot remember if it was Verdurian or Cadhinor they came across). In between-- they encounted the Old Verdurian of about 6...