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On Sat, 8/1/15, Brett Kruger <xxxxxx@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, August 1, 2015, 4:22 AM

 On 31/07/2015 8:59 AM,
 Bruce Johnson wrote:
 >
 >> On Jul 30, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Greg
 Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 >>
 >> It
 seems to me that continuous and intense early Aslant warfare
 kept population down.
 > Warfare and the
 territory required to feed carnivores the size of Aslan.  A
 typical lion pride needs about 100 square miles of
 territory.
 >
 >
 pre-agricultural Aslan undoubtedly needed enormous ranges;
 more intensive ranching would enable higher population
 densities; but frankly, it takes a pretty sizeable
 suspension of disbelief to envision an obligate carnivore
 developing a highly technical civilization, inasmuch as the
 population density to support technological innovation is
 pretty much impossible to sustain without intensive
 agriculture, and a diet comprised of a lot of non-meat.
 >
 > Even the most
 efficient herding systems are still quite inefficient at
 providing sustenance for large populations.
 >
 > Now, if Aslan were
 yet another of Gramps’ (or his kids)
 toys/experiments/servant races like Vargr or Humans, I could
 see them developing an advanced technological
 civilization.
 >
 >
 Doing it on their own requires some large Step 2
 miracles.
 >
 Could this
 effectively explain why the Aslan have expanded so quickly
 in
 the short time (compared to the other
 major races) since the
 developed/acquired
 jump drive?

 Brett.
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I've always believed that the Ancients explored most of the galaxy (although they don't seem to have discovered that the Primordials were still around but then DGP didn't decide on that until just before they gave up Traveller. ref: that thread on another website from years back in which one of the top guys at DGP was interviewed) & since Kuzu isn't *that* far from Terra it must have been surveyed & reported back to Gramps or one of his clones.

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