Re: Thoughts - Conlangs and culture

On Sunday 06 October 2002 06:10 pm, Roger Mills wrote:
> Christophe wrote:
> >En réponse à Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>:
> >>         I would also suggest the world-building list:
> >>
> >>         http://www.nocturne.org/world
> >>
> >>         Not only for concultures, but for almost any conthing that you
> >> may think: it's world building, so anything from planetary theories to
> >> chromosome pairing can be addressed. I've been subscribed only for a
> >> couple of months now, but for the moment its feedback has been very,
> >> very valueable. And the people on the list is always helpful :-)
> >
> >Thanks for the link! I had never heard of it and it looks quite good!
>
> Yes, looks good.  I checked a few things in the archives....it appears very
> active.  I used to belong to a "world design" at erzo.org, but haven't had
> a peep out them in over a year-- it was never very active, and probably
> died a quiet death.
>
> Roberto-- if you're interested in planet design and getting  the details
> right, I have a useful online course (less mathematically technical than
> the Gillet book mentioned in the FAQ at nocturne.org).....
Sounds interesting.

I have a world-building challenge.  Yhe Ghye Ineat - The World of Light - the
planet on which the Lakhabrech, the Rakhe'buitya and the Ineya Khara Ansha
run riot - is an Earth-style planet.  It has an active tectonic system -
well, it's in the Alpha Centauri system, and the tidal forces in a wide
binary system _do_ have an effect.

Yhe Farr are the original inhabitants, and during their time of interstellar
exploration they effectively polluted their planet - almost - beyond repair.

Consequently Yhe Ghye Ineat has about 65% of all the water it used to have,
and 80% of the atmosphere, ergo a lot of the water has precipitated on the
Desolate Lands - highlands made up of the former continents - and humanity
has largely migrated to the valleys surrounding the remaining sea/ocean
basins.

About 40% of Yhe Farr "sublimated" - in the term used by Iain Banks in his
"Culture" series - about 40,000 years ago, 40% died back, and the remaining
20% regressed to become some sort of savage, back to a more primitive form
where they were merely one of the more successful predators.  These genetic
engineers!  I don't know ...!!!

Those are Yhe Farr that Lakhabrech and Rakhebuitya escaped from, those are Yhe
Farr that still own Nu Ineya Khara Ansha.
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."