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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 161
Message ID: 16
#16, RE: Acceptance of the Notion of Artificial Sentiance
Posted by Redneck on Oct-20-01 at 04:32 PM
In response to message #8
>Another thing, regarding the amount of "human" aliens in UF, has
>anyone
>in the multiverse put forth something like the Solmani Hypothesis from
>Traveller (the idea that humans orginally all came from Earth but some
>were
>removed by an advanced alien race for some unkown reason and "seeded"
>across
>the galaxy.)

One theory advanced by a handful of religions which worship the Norse gods or variants is the Chosen Earth theory, which implies that Earth is the most important planet in the universe because it has the "true" message of the gods. This theory is ridiculed in a number of circles, but it also includes the subtheory that so many alien races are either human or very close to human because the gods created them in their image. The Elvish Sub-Corollary states that the human races- Earth, Corellia, Zardon, etc.- were created by the Aesir, while elvish races- Hyelians, Vulcans, Romulans, and so forth- were created by the Vanir, who being of lesser might have fewer creations. This theory is, of course, utterly wrong, but it gives the gods quite a bit of amusement.

The most common theory as to the commonality of humanoids is that the human form is most suited to the development of intelligent life. The fact that beings native to fifty different worlds have genetic patterns so close as to make them almost indistinguishable is generally thought to be due to ancient star-spanning civilizations, not just the Santovasku and Atlanteans, not just the older Galactic Empire of the Padishah, but even predating the legendary lost civlization of Mandalor. This would put such a civilization back prior to 50,000 B. C. or so, and completely out of even the most tenuous records.

Redneck

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