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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I think I'm with TSN on this. Interestingly, if Spock is speaking of the aggressive colonizing phase of the western society on Earth between 1500 and 1800, instead of a space colonization phase between 2060 and 2260, then perhaps he is making an exact analogy. Perhaps Vulcan, too, had a time when peoples from one part of the planet conquered peoples from other parts of the same planet? Perhaps the ridgeheaded Vulcans were among the oppressed, and among the most aggressive of the Vulcan inhabitants? They could have opposed Surak as a racial group in addition to being a group tied together by philosophy. The 100-yr war could have been between flatheads and ridgeheads on Vulcan during "an aggressive, colonizing period", leading to a deep schism that ended in the departure of the ridgeheads and thus the birth of the Romulan race. Some flatheads would naturally go with them, and some ridgeheads would remain on Vulcan. The caveat here is that a planet capable of starflight seems unlikely to be in a phase of dirtbound colonialism. Perhaps the 100-yr war [i]resulted[/i] in the achieving of starflight, as our WWs gave us flight and spaceflight? Imagine large isolated desert communities developing the tech required to wage war with each other across distances - mere crusade-type mass movements of foot soldiers or mounted knights would be doomed to disappear amidst the sands, and mechanized troops would also have immense problems. Perhaps a major war could only be fought with the invention of advanced flight technologies, later leading to spaceflight? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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