Ghyll:Harv Gretborn - Revision history

Jcowan: Linking to Royal Dulalia

2005-09-24T01:13:29Z

Linking to Royal Dulalia

Jcowan: Making Royal Dulalia a person rather than a kingdom

2005-06-10T18:03:36Z

Making Royal Dulalia a person rather than a kingdom

Morbus Iff: Phantoming Dulalian Empire.

2005-06-10T13:39:51Z

Phantoming Dulalian Empire.

Morbus Iff: Correcting Jcowan's sig. All hail Sbp.

2005-02-04T16:03:31Z

Correcting Jcowan's sig. All hail Sbp.

Jcowan: Categorizing

2004-11-04T03:18:31Z

Categorizing

Jcowan: Complete

2004-11-03T21:48:39Z

Complete

Jcowan: Existing reference

2004-11-01T03:42:12Z

Existing reference

Jcowan: Dibbed

2004-10-30T04:21:32Z

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 The technical details of the Process are fully documented in the [[Gravion Process|article of that name in this encyclopaedia]].  Here [[User:Jcowan|I]] confine myself to an account of its social and political  consequences.  Like so many other weapons from the crossbow to the Brilliant Pebbles, the Gravion Process did not of course (contrary to early horrified reactions) make war obsolete as a result of the sheer terror of the would-be combatants.  No mere physical, or even metaphysical, weapon can possibly achieve that end.
-Gretborn's penultimate invention did ensure, however, that whichever entity was the first to avail itself of Gretborn's methods and technical base would achieve a temporary supremacy over its antagonists that could easily put it in a permanent position of strength.  As is known to every schoolchild, Royal Dulalia won the bidding war, destroyed some 60%-75% of the arable land on the Fundzherit Peninsula by way of demonstration, and used the threat of further applications to consolidate his hegemony over his former commercial rivals, transforming his petty kingdom into the [[Dulalian Empire]] of today.
+Gretborn's penultimate invention did ensure, however, that whichever entity was the first to avail itself of Gretborn's methods and technical base would achieve a temporary supremacy over its antagonists that could easily put it in a permanent position of strength.  As is known to every schoolchild, [[Royal Dulalia]] won the bidding war, destroyed some 60%-75% of the arable land on the Fundzherit Peninsula by way of demonstration, and used the threat of further applications to consolidate his hegemony over his former commercial rivals, transforming his petty kingdom into the [[Dulalian Empire]] of today.
 As for Gretborn's Last (or Two-Part) Invention, with which he supposedly intended to redeem his shredded reputation among both scholars and ordinary folk, little has been said about it publicly that can be considered authoritative.  We have only the marginal note in Gretborn's own hand in his personal copy of the ''Arithmetica'', claiming that he had worked out the plans ''in extenso'', but that the margin was too small to contain them.  For the rest, only the [[Brothers of the Lantern]] know the truth; as usual, they are not talking.

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 The technical details of the Process are fully documented in the [[Gravion Process|article of that name in this encyclopaedia]].  Here [[User:Jcowan|I]] confine myself to an account of its social and political  consequences.  Like so many other weapons from the crossbow to the Brilliant Pebbles, the Gravion Process did not of course (contrary to early horrified reactions) make war obsolete as a result of the sheer terror of the would-be combatants.  No mere physical, or even metaphysical, weapon can possibly achieve that end.
-Gretborn's penultimate invention did ensure, however, that whichever entity was the first to avail itself of Gretborn's methods and technical base would achieve a temporary supremacy over its antagonists that could easily put it in a permanent position of strength.  As is known to every schoolchild, Royal Dulalia won the bidding war, destroyed some 60%-75% of the arable land on the Fundzherit Peninsula by way of demonstration, and used the threat of further applications to consolidate its hegemony over its former commercial rivals, transforming itself into the [[Dulalian Empire]] of today.
+Gretborn's penultimate invention did ensure, however, that whichever entity was the first to avail itself of Gretborn's methods and technical base would achieve a temporary supremacy over its antagonists that could easily put it in a permanent position of strength.  As is known to every schoolchild, Royal Dulalia won the bidding war, destroyed some 60%-75% of the arable land on the Fundzherit Peninsula by way of demonstration, and used the threat of further applications to consolidate his hegemony over his former commercial rivals, transforming his petty kingdom into the [[Dulalian Empire]] of today.
 As for Gretborn's Last (or Two-Part) Invention, with which he supposedly intended to redeem his shredded reputation among both scholars and ordinary folk, little has been said about it publicly that can be considered authoritative.  We have only the marginal note in Gretborn's own hand in his personal copy of the ''Arithmetica'', claiming that he had worked out the plans ''in extenso'', but that the margin was too small to contain them.  For the rest, only the [[Brothers of the Lantern]] know the truth; as usual, they are not talking.

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 The technical details of the Process are fully documented in the [[Gravion Process|article of that name in this encyclopaedia]].  Here [[User:Jcowan|I]] confine myself to an account of its social and political  consequences.  Like so many other weapons from the crossbow to the Brilliant Pebbles, the Gravion Process did not of course (contrary to early horrified reactions) make war obsolete as a result of the sheer terror of the would-be combatants.  No mere physical, or even metaphysical, weapon can possibly achieve that end.
-Gretborn's penultimate invention did ensure, however, that whichever entity was the first to avail itself of Gretborn's methods and technical base would achieve a temporary supremacy over its antagonists that could easily put it in a permanent position of strength.  As is known to every schoolchild, Royal Dulalia won the bidding war, destroyed some 60%-75% of the arable land on the Fundzherit Peninsula by way of demonstration, and used the threat of further applications to consolidate its hegemony over its former commercial rivals, transforming itself into the Dulalian Empire of today.
+Gretborn's penultimate invention did ensure, however, that whichever entity was the first to avail itself of Gretborn's methods and technical base would achieve a temporary supremacy over its antagonists that could easily put it in a permanent position of strength.  As is known to every schoolchild, Royal Dulalia won the bidding war, destroyed some 60%-75% of the arable land on the Fundzherit Peninsula by way of demonstration, and used the threat of further applications to consolidate its hegemony over its former commercial rivals, transforming itself into the [[Dulalian Empire]] of today.
 As for Gretborn's Last (or Two-Part) Invention, with which he supposedly intended to redeem his shredded reputation among both scholars and ordinary folk, little has been said about it publicly that can be considered authoritative.  We have only the marginal note in Gretborn's own hand in his personal copy of the ''Arithmetica'', claiming that he had worked out the plans ''in extenso'', but that the margin was too small to contain them.  For the rest, only the [[Brothers of the Lantern]] know the truth; as usual, they are not talking.

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 '''Citations''':  [[Council for Quezlarian Research]], [[Snotgun]], [[toilet training]].
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+'''Harv Gretborn''' is considered by all sober scholars to be one of history's darkest figures.  His early childhood, including his [[toilet training]], is entirely mysterious, and the once-exciting speculations of the so-called "depth charge school" of historians have been shown to be entirely ''post hoc'' and without foundation.
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+Gretborn first appears in authentic history as a young man, already established in his famous "invention laboratory" on the outskirts of [[Iganefta]], supposedly funded by the [[Council for Quezlarian Research]], and working on the inventions that were to make him first famous and then infamous.  The earliest inventions were relatively straightforward, like the Fountain Spray and the Blue Ice, though the military-mindedness that was so prominent a feature of his later career was already apparent in the first of them, the disgusting but effective [[Snotgun]].  This period came to an end with his publication of ''Sublimating the Divine'', the first openly published systematic guide to the practical applications of [[theoalchemy]].
-history's darkest figures, including Harv Gretborn, the inventor of the dreaded [[Gravion Process]], appear in gruff fiction
+Alleging a personal breakdown, he then ceased working on inventions for a period of some six years. He spent the first half of this period composing canoralist music -- the very greatest of the second rank ever written -- and the second half writing a paper on Xhasone Margolhu's Theorem that is said by mathematicians to be the last word on the subject.  He then returned to the invention laboratory, working night and day with redoubled vigor, until he announced to all Ghyll his discovery of the dreaded [[Gravion Process]], whose very name is still used to frighten ill-behaved children.

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