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Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story...
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Thu, 4 Oct 2001 05:29:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Geordan Hankinson writes:
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> > > If you like, I can change the name, (?)
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> > No, of course not! I just wanted to hear your "explanation" or reasoning.
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> > The "New Byzantine Army" still, IMHO, is a *BIG* misnomer. While I understand
> > that the story is fiction, I think that it is confusing and rather silly.
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> Ok, did anyone else find it "out of place?" cuz then I think I will change it,
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> if more people have negative feelings about it then I think it would be
> appropriate to change it.
Actually, I really liked the *name*. I didn't see your explanation
for the formulation of the subdivision itself. My suggestion, if it's
even possible, would be to reformulate the backstory of its composition
and make it, say, an agglomeration of Balkan and Slavic states--maybe
by positing at some point an unprecedented "merger" of the Orthodox
churches of the East and movement of populations. You would still have
to consider the Muslim populations in the Balkans, but if the polity
you create is tolerant, that's not a problem either. The hardest
part might be dealing with the Turkish element, if you want to use
Istanbul/Constantinople/Byzantium as a capital. This might require
a war of conquest or, alternately, the creation of a "New Byzantium"
as a capital city somewhere on the Black Sea, perhaps atop an older
Byzantine city grown old and worn. That would be a very worthy
project for a mighty high-tech Empire, I'd say.
These are just thoughts, but in short, my recommendation is that you
subordinate the plausibility issues to that very cool name. :D
That is, if too much doesn't already depend on it. But recovering
the Greek character of Byzantium might make it desirable.
best
LFB
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| (...) Scratch that "recommendation." That's not what I meant to put across--rather that if anything *had* to be changed, I'd change something else before the name. I really do like the name. (Thus the :D...) But again, it's your universe, and so (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| snip (...) Ok, did anyone else find it "out of place?" cuz then I think I will change it, if more people have negative feelings about it then I think it would be appropriate to change it. -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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