Brave Sir Laserlight, and further: Re: India, GZG-style - where's the aliens?

laserlight wrote on 01/12/2004 10:16:41 PM:

> Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

Funny, the Narn Bat squad seems to be backing off with some speed. They do
have an uncanny sense of incoming orbital strikes...

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> From the text:
'While making great strides in technical and industrial fields, it was still
weighed down by internal divisions, low literacy, and grinding poverty for
much of its citizenry.'

I considered it mentioned with the 'internal divisions', which, as so much of
the good canon, allows one to either assume that threat from without can
unite, or that the terrible troubles are glossed over in the 'official'
histories. Pollyanna or morose skeptic, your choice.
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The class/caste divisions in GZG India are most certainly sharp, at
times. I wasn't sure how much to put in the initial writing, but I might note
them

a bit more.
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The Sikhs, yes, they'd probably end up with a colony of their own, and maybe
Amritsar as an autonomous region. As for the Tamils, this leads me into Beth's
suggestions.:)
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The other thing I had in mind was that leaving such issues vague also left
room for folks to make their own lesser minor, as opposed to an India star
nation, nations. I think a separate Sikh nation has been discussed before.

The_Beast