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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Regarding the effect of geological forces on Ancient tech, our heroes by definition wouldn't have access to those pieces that are affected. If the tech is buried, so is the local gate. But what looks like inert rock, or rock that only moves mechanically, in the general case controls machinery that can move things between stars, or shift time, or stuff like that. Surely such technology could be rigged to self-protect against mere mechanical forces, too. The local bedrock may be stone-tech, too, riding securely on the surrounding natural rock no matter what upheavals affect the site. It doesn't bode well for these pieces of stone-tech, though, that they tend to shake apart like standard masonry when our heroes misset the controls and create a local earthquake. If a minor disturbance like that is enough to topple the stone pillars and crack the tablets, then their self-protection tech isn't worth much. OTOH, perhaps our heroes always manage to catch these things at their final stage of degradation, when their self-protection systems are already failing and their functionality is nearly gone as well. Strike that, it's [i]obvious[/i] that this is what always happens. A strange coincidence, to be sure... How [i]does[/i] mankind hit the exact 100,000 year window when the great machines are at that particular state of disrepair? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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