Genetic drift of this nature only takes a few hundred years... that means that a thousand on the outside. Your literally claiming genetics stayed steady for 100 times that long, you can fudge the numbers a bit, but I think your badly misinformed on how long genetics takes. Or maybe what genetics evolution involves.
Again fudge it if you want, but it will end up a sticking point for some people. Or make the potential cross breeding a side effect of the basic inoculations they give everyone regardless of species to prevent obscure new plagues. Basically it sometimes goes all retrovirus on their reproductive genetics.
The Muslim religion is best summed up as: Convert or die. That is the entire religion in a nut shell.
So the answer to 1) is: Almost 70 virgin half bird spirit women as a harem in the afterlife (though they can take their wives with them if they want.)
And the answer to 2) is: Kill non Muslims. There are passages to wave off the entire rest of the instruction manuel as long as you are killing non Muslims in the process.
The way into their afterlife is through killing non Muslims. Everything else is there to breed more Muslims in better conditions. Everything else is literally ignorable as long as you are killing non Muslems. The idea of getting along with other people who aren't Muslim is a new idea to them... by their holy books definition a bad Muslim is someone who doesn't want to kill non Muslims.
There are only two major groups of truly radical Muslims: 1) Those with a live and let live attitude and 2) those that kill other Muslims while killing non Muslims. If you don't believe me: Read the instruction manual that they wrote.
Resent events have had a man in a capital punishment case for one of Islam's greatest sins: he converted to another religion. Though foreign pressure got that waved (he is looking for asylum in another country now) this was in Afghanistan. That is a moderate Islamic country, he got a trial first, rather than public stoning.
What I suggested was that the humans did something that so missed the entire point of the exercise (knowing yourself) that it lead to a build up to factions attacking the offenders. Only if you count other people existing as an offense does this analogy of yours work... which means have to stretch to make that same thing point work. The Paladins are attacking for academic reasons in mine and Xeno's scenarios. In the Muslim case it is to get hot bird woman nookie in the afterlife.
Anyway, the fossil record issue could also work... the spiders go "Ah, that explains things". The cats go... "Ohh... giant killing machines of old" and you get the Utahraptor and T-rex squads and those wonderful scent gathering plushies as an import (now they can smell the rest of their group, smells in space yeah!). The Paladins are berserking because they again not knowing that they are a spin off group. Give them a We are the first race, the rest of you are the spin offs to bring into the fold tenant mixed into their beliefs. They will have attacked the spiders in a previous war over the offense of proving alternate evolutions actually have happened.
Ive only seen 3 major races and humans so far so minor ones can pop up at random. Not everyone has to deal with everyone.
Again fudge it if you want, but it will end up a sticking point for some people. Or make the potential cross breeding a side effect of the basic inoculations they give everyone regardless of species to prevent obscure new plagues. Basically it sometimes goes all retrovirus on their reproductive genetics.
Quote:Um... what are you talking about? Phases? I analyze religions based on two tenants: 1) What do you get for following the religion?, 2) What do you have to do to get it?
I don't want to make them directly congruent to any real world religion, but the more militant phases of Islam's expansion would be a definite parallel to what I'm sort of picturing.
The Muslim religion is best summed up as: Convert or die. That is the entire religion in a nut shell.
So the answer to 1) is: Almost 70 virgin half bird spirit women as a harem in the afterlife (though they can take their wives with them if they want.)
And the answer to 2) is: Kill non Muslims. There are passages to wave off the entire rest of the instruction manuel as long as you are killing non Muslims in the process.
The way into their afterlife is through killing non Muslims. Everything else is there to breed more Muslims in better conditions. Everything else is literally ignorable as long as you are killing non Muslems. The idea of getting along with other people who aren't Muslim is a new idea to them... by their holy books definition a bad Muslim is someone who doesn't want to kill non Muslims.
There are only two major groups of truly radical Muslims: 1) Those with a live and let live attitude and 2) those that kill other Muslims while killing non Muslims. If you don't believe me: Read the instruction manual that they wrote.
Resent events have had a man in a capital punishment case for one of Islam's greatest sins: he converted to another religion. Though foreign pressure got that waved (he is looking for asylum in another country now) this was in Afghanistan. That is a moderate Islamic country, he got a trial first, rather than public stoning.
What I suggested was that the humans did something that so missed the entire point of the exercise (knowing yourself) that it lead to a build up to factions attacking the offenders. Only if you count other people existing as an offense does this analogy of yours work... which means have to stretch to make that same thing point work. The Paladins are attacking for academic reasons in mine and Xeno's scenarios. In the Muslim case it is to get hot bird woman nookie in the afterlife.
Anyway, the fossil record issue could also work... the spiders go "Ah, that explains things". The cats go... "Ohh... giant killing machines of old" and you get the Utahraptor and T-rex squads and those wonderful scent gathering plushies as an import (now they can smell the rest of their group, smells in space yeah!). The Paladins are berserking because they again not knowing that they are a spin off group. Give them a We are the first race, the rest of you are the spin offs to bring into the fold tenant mixed into their beliefs. They will have attacked the spiders in a previous war over the offense of proving alternate evolutions actually have happened.
Quote:Im not familiar with this reference either so Ill be general, Just make the Steampunk group on one of the random world connected to Earth within 2 or 3 jumps they just only have 1to 3 jump point in their solar system and just never invented jump tech as theirs are far from everything they care about so they are bound in system effectively. That flash of bright light in the middle of nowhere got their curiosity going though.
Hmm. That would be the Battletech people, I suspect, and wonder if a sufficiently plausible line of bullshit could be produced to include a 'Space 1888' style steampunk group in our already established set...
Ive only seen 3 major races and humans so far so minor ones can pop up at random. Not everyone has to deal with everyone.