Camels revisited

[RobPfeifer]

People have previously asked "Camels? At the fissure?" and received various replies, including the response that this was deliberate misdirection to make you think D'ni was in the Middle East until the DRC were ready to open up.

An alternative explanation (at the level that Uru is reality and the other material are games/books) is that the DRC created a replica of the fissure at a suitable site in America and the true D'ni is under the Middle East or North Africa somewhere, nearer the heart of ancient civilisation. After all, you travel from the cleft elsewhere by linking. We have yet to walk down to D'ni!

And then, if we choose to take the level that the games are all fiction but that D'ni is real somewhere, then we have the interpretation that /Uru/ is deliberate misidrection.

Of course, there's also the level that it's all fiction and somebody just screwed up, but that's far less interesting.

And if the DRC are half as secretive as the little I have seen of them, it wouldn't surprise me if they want to hide what they have... very well...

Rob

[RobPfeifer]

People have previously asked "Camels? At the fissure?" and received various replies, including the response that this was deliberate misdirection to make you think D'ni was in the Middle East until the DRC were ready to open up.

An alternative explanation (at the level that Uru is reality and the other material are games/books) is that the DRC created a replica of the fissure at a suitable site in America and the true D'ni is under the Middle East or North Africa somewhere, nearer the heart of ancient civilisation. After all, you travel from the cleft elsewhere by linking. We have yet to walk down to D'ni!

And then, if we choose to take the level that the games are all fiction but that D'ni is real somewhere, then we have the interpretation that /Uru/ is deliberate misidrection.

Of course, there's also the level that it's all fiction and somebody just screwed up, but that's far less interesting.

And if the DRC are half as secretive as the little I have seen of them, it wouldn't surprise me if they want to hide what they have... very well...

Rob

[OneMagMile]

I seem to remember reading once that long ago camels (or a proto-camel) roamed North America (between ice ages or something like that). Maybe the cleft is in an alternate Earth where the camels still roam free in the great West.

[Goofling]

No spoilers here, but there would be a slight problem with the endgame if D'ni isn't under New Mexico. http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/images/smiley/16x16_smiley-indifferent.gif

[OneMagMile]

Just got back from walking my dog and had another thought. If the cleft is located on an alternate Earth, that might explain the slight differences in the trailer's New Mexico license plate. It's not quite the same, which you could expect on an alternate Earth.

Also, it might explain why archeologists haven't found any evidence of the D'ni city in New Mexico!

[rxbandit3768]

Alternate Earth? I thought this was Uru, not Sliders. If I remember correctly, when a desriptive book is written, it links to an existing location, not creates a world. How could one write the same descriptive book and have it link to a different age that looks exactly the same?

[Srikandi]

It links to a possible world; could be in a different universe and/or a different time. You can thus have very very similar Ages.

That's how writing changes to an Age works; you end up in a different (but very similar) Age. There's an example of this in one of the books.

Sri's Relto (http://members.cox.net/srikandi/Uru/)