From: Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>
So my take for a while was a hollow world.
Anyway, that was always my take on what Cidri was: A hollow artificial world with the rock ~500 km thick and ~150,000 km in radius. That would give you a surface area of about 500,000,000,000 square km which (including the inside) felt about right.
This is perhaps the best scientific explanation for Cidri I have read. It's about the only thing that could make sense given curent notions of science. However, working out day and night would be tricky.
As for myself, as a kid and now, I don't worry too much about what Cidri is. I assume that the Mnoren were people with super amounts of intelligence and whose science science was so advanced that it would kae our highest technology look like rattling chicken bones in comparison. And with that knowledge and technology, the Mnoren were able to construct a vast planet that is far larger than earth, that still had seasons and climatic zones, and that still had a moon and stars and so on. After all, it's a *fantasy* game, and I didn't try to press the premise too far -- not with elves and orcs and magical items and so on floating around.
Instead, my interest was in mapping Cidri; hence, my other post ... Be well. --John ===== Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com. Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body "unsubscribe tft"