Movie or game incarnation? ;)

Berk Watkins
Student of Quantum Bogodynamics...

Yeah. That's basically how it is.

Religion in the UF universe is much too complicated a thing for me to want to get into here (hence my initial evasive answer, which was also produced by a lack of time to really answer anything at that moment). The gods have many names, and with them many faces, but not all the gods that mortals worship map to one of the real gods in Asgard. Some of them are other things. The ancient Atlantean society had a cult that worshipped dorats, the great space dragons that inhabited the region of space around their empire. The people of Epsilon Eridani III worship unknowable cosmic entities that may be merely technological artifacts left behind by a dead civilization. The Church of Man worship a particularly weird interpretation of Odin and don't realize it.

The gods themselves don't change based on their worshippers' interpretations, though; they're just them, and they're busy people - they generally don't see fit to try and correct mortal interpretations of them that are wrong. Not only is it time-consuming, it's usually futile. Appear to a guy who thinks God is a pillar of green flame as anything other than a pillar of green flame and he'll think you're an agent of darkness come to tempt him away from the True Path. Odin once found that irony amusing, but since then it's gotten a bit old.

As far as committing an act of technological innovation being an act of Skuld worship by definition goes, that's more or less right, though it's not exactly worship without a will toward supplication behind it. I'm not sure what you'd call it instead, though. A lot of technology types do get the occasional smile from her, whether they realize it or not. She seems to have a special fondness for ships' engineers. :)

--G.
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Perhaps "devotion" -- not in the sense of emotional attachment, but in the sense of a ritual?

> A lot of
>technology types do get the occasional smile from her, whether they
>realize it or not. She seems to have a special fondness for ships'
>engineers. :)

Well, then, that explains why Scotty gets away with as much flaunting of the laws of physics as he does. (That, or he's secretly a Skuld cleric... <grin>)

-- Bob
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Now I cant get this image out of my head of his just waiting til J.T. Kirk will get out of sight so Scotty can whack the reluctant thing a couple of times with his Blessed Hammer. ^_^;

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Vaughn doesn't know I exist. I guess this explains why the rest of reality keeps ignoring me as well. >_<

Now I've got a mental image of Scotty chasing bugs with Skuld's hammer.
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"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

Given that this was a sarcastic remark by Skuld, I'm not sure that it tells us much...

Eric J. Heckathorn
ericjh@stargate.net

It was -very- much a sarcastic remark; the intent was to point out that since there -were- no other pantheons, mortal help was the only kind she was likely to find.

It should be pointed out, though, that while the gods are powerful, and Odin all-powerful, none of them is infallible...

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