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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 2002
Message ID: 15
#15, RE: The Antianeira Incident
Posted by Gryphon on Dec-19-08 at 01:36 AM
In response to message #14
>And for that matter, when will we actually see them all together as
>the Senshi

I don't usually answer this sort of question, but this one, I'll bite: You won't. They don't all live in the same era. It's impossible for all of them to meet. It's like wanting to see Hubert Humphrey as John Quincy Adams's vice president. Simply not going to happen.

>I do have one question though about sticking the Amazons in Cephiro,
>and it kinda also goes for everyone else that visits - IIRC Gryphon
>stated that Cephiro is only around 10-15k miles/kilometers across, so
>around 1/2 the size of Earth.

Cephiro's surface area is smaller than Earth's, but it's also much less densely populated and has a higher proportion of landmass to sea cover. Of its various nations, only industrialized Autozam has a population per square mile that even approaches that of modern-day Earth's built-up areas (Zantoku is roughly equivalent to greater London in both geographic size and population). Some, like desert Shalhara, are (statistically speaking) nearly uninhabited, and most, though they have cities and infrastructure, remain largely rural. Nihonia, for instance, has only one city of real significance (Tenchuu, the traditional seat of the High Priest). Saitou, where Tenjou Academy is, is more like a college town.

>Having a heavy magical representation
>likely helps, but having any large influx of immigrants is going to
>put a strain on the local areas surrounding wherever they call home
>for the short term. Although if this is post-ascension Corwin to the
>position of Pillar, backed up by full godhood, shouldn't he have the
>sheer power to cause some expansion to the mini-dimension?

He could (though it would require a significant patch to the World-Engine's operating image), but it's not necessary. There are only a little more than 1100 Amazons. That many people could settle in a smallish city here in the real world (say Flagstaff, Arizona) without causing insurmountable problems - hell, most universities have (seasonal) populations much larger than that. The Amazons, sturdy and self-sufficient as they are, should have no more trouble establishing New Themyscira on an uninhabited island in the Saitou Sea than they had establishing the original one west of the Azores after they left their first city on the banks of the Thermodon circa 70 BSC.

If there were a million or more of them, resettling them would be a major undertaking and a significant feat of logistics, but as it is, it's like moving the enrollment of a biggish public high school. You'd need quite a lot of buses, but it's not like they'd lay waste to the landscape just by moving across it, like Napoleon's armies. :)

>BTW - will we ever see Geoff meet the original UF Batman?

No data.

>Could be...interesting. Bale did do Equilibrium after all.

He doesn't "play" Bruce Wayne in UF, though. If anybody can be said to, Kevin Conroy does.

--G.
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