At the beginning, shall we?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>However, there is absolutely no reason to suspect that their interest in the kilrathi species had any adverse effects on the Kilrathi planet.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I beg to differ.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Fact 1: The Kilrathi were sentient by the time the bugs arrived. This is clearly supported by the fact that they assembled their armies to meet the Star Gods, and by their ability to recognise the importance of
keeping records.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok, are we calling rock throwing baboons sentient beings? Because bascially, that's what they probably were. As for keeping records, think about how the original records of human history were kept, they were stories, passed along from grandpas to grandkids. Some of family history is like that today. Do you think Kilrah didn't evolve the same way? Do you think that just because they were smart enough to get a bunch of themselves together to try and fend off anniliation, they were smart enough to keep records? Lions assemble in prides in africa to defend from other spieces of attackers, and kill their prey, yet I don't see one with glasses and a Five-Star notebook out their writing down when, where, how long it took, and what kind of animal they killed.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Fact 2: The Kilrathi civilisation developed on an unstable planet with a lot of volcanic activity. Read Victory Streak for details. I believe that the Movie Handbook also says something to that effect, though I haven't seen it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok, might have been. But do we
really know all the official stuff about Kilrah? I mean, it's kinda hard to examine their records, since
we blew them all to hell. Don't you think?
Though, while I agree with you on Fact three,
Is Earth a stable planet? That depends on your defination of stable. My Astronomy and Space teachings may be fading, but my Earth Science classes last year aren't.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>That's nice... but they merely opened it. They did not create it. It had always been there. If this wormhole, therefore, had been enough to cause such tectonic instability as we are talking about in the case of Kilrah, and if this wormhole had always been there, then we can only assume that Kilrah would have never been stable enough for the development of life - assuming that it even existed. Therefore, we must assume that the wormhole has absolutely nothing to do with Kilrah's unstability, and that it in fact has no effect whatosever on the system. This is further supported by the fact that neither Kilrah nor any of its celestial neighbours had anomalous orbits. They all have perfectly elliptical orbits, which indicate that they are not under the influence of anything except the star known as Kilrah.
Furthermore, if you're going to use the ICIS to support your theory, then at least have the decency to note that the ICIS outright disproves your theory, in the fact that this energy surge caused by the wormhole opening was so utterly insignificant that it got written off as the reflection of a solar flare. It had no influence whatsoever or anything.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok, so I was wrong about the wormhole being artificial. All I remembered was Finley saying something about and artifical anomaly. So sue me.
With your second part, don't you think that when something's off the damn charts on the instruments, and then a bunch of bad guys shows up, it's time to start kicking the screw ups ass that didn't report that? I mean, once we
knew that the bugs were there, IE the Midway's initial distress signal, that all of that data would be brought back and re-worked over with a fine tooth comb for anything out of order? "...a tightly focused pules of energy, .165 of a second in duration. It measured 47,000 dG in intensity and crossed the subspace spectrum from the mk 1772 down to mk 3500 (the lower limit of the K105 detection equipment). THe surge fit the profile of
no known subspace energy source. The event occurred at 018.1441.26 and at 1502 was manually flagged as a probable false reading by technicians at the observatory, according to the K105 sensor logs." Ok. I thought that by that point in time, we'd know what solar flares do to our instruments, along with most other space anomalies. I may be wrong though.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Even if this could be true (but it's not, because we've just established that the surge is not influential), it would still not do what you suggest. Why? Pick up an egg. Shake it. Is the shell broken? No. Throw the
egg across the room. That's some fairly violent force you just applied to that egg, you know. So tell me, did the egg break in flight (as you suggest Kilrah did, with its continental plates breaking up into smaller, layered ones)? No. It broke when it hit the wall. Therefore, we can assume that even if the surge had the ability to influence anything, it would have had to shove Kilrah into another large object to cause such changes. Unfortunately, then the fate of Kilrah would have been much like that of the egg. In other words, it would have to be scraped off the wall .<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok, apply an energy pulse to that egg. A very strong, concentrated one. Let's use a laser, bad example, but it's all I've got to work with. Flash a laser for .165 of second at the side of the egg. (not one of hte cheap store bought ones, a medical quality cutting one.) See what happens? A hole was burnt in the shell, and some of the insides got nuced (cooked). Just that little short duration of energy, and look at the damage you did. Take this on a much, much, much larger scale. It would probably be the equivilent of an earthquake here, a small one, probably wouldn't register, but it would be spread out, instead of concentrated above the source, like the ones we have now. This is all theory, and I just want you to know, that while I think I do, I have no clue what I'm talking about. However, if it makes any sense at all, I'll follow it, which is why I agree with Shane.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR>Yes she did, KW.
As for her second statement... well, I think she actually meant Confed. I'm assuming that they knew all too well about the Kilrathi. In fact, I'd have to argue that they did know about Confed. I mean, their intelligence was so damned good that they even knew of the Kilrathi smugglers on 7.4.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I doubt it was their intelligence that led them to the hidden smuggler base. My guess would be their advanced sensors or the smugglers thought they could take them and attacked. We have
no evidence of that incident, so lets stick with one we only have a little. As for the 'why', I'm sure we'll get to that, eventually. Shane's the one with the ideas. I just expand on his
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[This message has been edited by Knight (edited July 18, 2000).]