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A Deductive Argument
• no Christian faction has ever come anywhere close to being good roll[sic] models.
• Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation were a Christian faction
• Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation has not come anywhere close to being good role models.

I deny the conclusion, and therefore I find the first premise to be false, where the second premise is verified by historical documents.
Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation were a Christian faction
No they weren't. Their faction comprised of strong atheist, secular, feminist, LBGT and communist elements all of whom despised religion for obvious reasons. Which Dr. King took a lot of flack for, mostly from the religious elements of his "flock".

I have no doubt that 50-100 years from now, the religious factions of the US will also be taking credit for making LGBT marriage possible. You may whitewash history all you want Ice, you can never hide the truth deep enough that the discerning wont find it.
Wikipedia on Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote:Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
While at the beginning King supported other movements, later the non-Christian groups rallied behind King, as he became a face for the movement.
King started from his belief that God created all Humans equal.
You may see that as Christian or not, but it was his belief which made him face all the problems of becoming a face for the fight against segregation.

But "King's faction" (if you want to name it that) within the movement, was the Christian faction. The other factions supported him, as he was successful in gaining media attention and rallying support. In other topics they may not have supported him, but that was not the goal of the anti-apartheit movement anyway.
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Grayhome wrote:
A Deductive Argument
• no Christian faction has ever come anywhere close to being good roll[sic] models.
• Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation were a Christian faction
• Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation has not come anywhere close to being good role models.

I deny the conclusion, and therefore I find the first premise to be false, where the second premise is verified by historical documents.
Martin Luther King Jr. and his congregation were a Christian faction
No they weren't. Their faction comprised of strong atheist, secular, feminist, LBGT and communist elements all of whom despised religion for obvious reasons. Which Dr. King took a lot of flack for, mostly from the religious elements of his "flock".

I have no doubt that 50-100 years from now, the religious factions of the US will also be taking credit for making LGBT marriage possible. You may whitewash history all you want Ice, you can never hide the truth deep enough that the discerning wont find it.
That is a pretty extreme way of looking at it. From a social perspective, religion is a way to devise a philosophy with clear bounds on right and wrong, to help pinpoint what is evil and what is good. Lots of people do need these sorts of bearings when they themselves decide that. Religion puts that into perspective. For me, as a somewhat religious person, the tennents of faith were just a starting point in the evercontinuing process of defining my personal views on right and wrong. Real world experience was the rest. Most religions today have flexibility built into them, and most religious people are not fanatics but pretty down to earth, normal persons. After all, thou shall not kill seems like a pretty good rule right? The legal systems in most countries seems to agree with this, as secular as they are. Religious violence tends to underlie pretty bad social issues (poverty, corruption, etc). The conflict between the Shia and Sunnis isn t caused by different beliefs. That's just a casus belli as the romans used to say. It''s caused by POLITICAL competition between the historical civilisations of Persia (Iran) and Arabia (the Saudis). There are very real, down to earth reasons of why these states compete, that have little to do with religion. The world is bad because people are bad, regardless of what they believe in. Religion is just an excuse. To attack people that express a religious belief as being delusional is just as extreme as stonneing them to death.

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While at the beginning King supported other movements, later the non-Christian groups rallied behind King, as he became a face for the movement.
But "King's faction" (if you want to name it that) within the movement, was the Christian faction. The other factions supported him, as he was successful in gaining media attention and rallying support. In other topics they may not have supported him, but that was not the goal of the anti-apartheit movement anyway.
Atheists, Secularists, LBGT, Communists, Marxists, etc have been forced to rally behind the leaders who profess the right religion and who worship the right God in the United States since the nation’s founding. If you do not profess the right religion in the US you have no chance in public office and therefore no say in shaping legislation. Your comment is technically true, Krulle, but it is not true in any meaningful or positive light that I can see. That a single religion so deeply permeates and perverts the United States so that it holds total power over it’s political functions and actively excludes other factions based not upon logic, reason or evidence but upon religious dogma is not a particularly endearing fact for you to raise, nor does it do anything other than damage your credibility in my eyes. Why do you think the African Americans were fighting for their freedom in the first place? Do you think it was because atheists and communists kidnapped them from their homeland, dragged them to the new world in chains, and forced them into slavery? Come on Krulle, be serious here.
King started from his belief that God created all Humans equal.
This is a lovely sentence and I am certain it gives Christians a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. However the Christian god vehemently disagrees with your opinion on the matter of human equality. You should read the Bible sometime, as it explains the matter with great (I would say sadistic) attention to detail. The Christian bible clearly and repeatedly states which humans are superior and which are inferior, and precisely what the superior humans can, and are indeed commanded to do unto the inferior ones. Slavery, being merely one example.
You may see that as Christian or not, but it was his belief which made him face all the problems of becoming a face for the fight against segregation.
A fight in which the opposing faction was massively supported by the religious who quoted their opposition to granting African Americans equal rights, quite correctly, from their bible. If you grant the one side Krulle you MUST grant the other. You cannot simply say “Christians supported Dr. King” and then omit that Christians also supported the opposition to the Civil Rights movement That is called whitewashing history. I have no doubt that some communists, atheists, secularists, LBGT, etc also opposed the Civil Rights movement, I am not making that claim.

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From a social perspective, religion is a way to devise a philosophy with clear bounds on right and wrong, to help pinpoint what is evil and what is good.
Basing one’s society, or even solely the justice system, upon the laws of a 2000+ year of nomadic desert tribe is a terrible idea Tucker.
Lots of people do need these sorts of bearings when they themselves decide that.
I find that to be horrifically insulting to the human intellect and fundamentally untrue. I am non-religious. I have many non-religious friends. Those who identify as non-religious are steadily growing into a significant portion of the population. Are you saying that my community and I are incapable of morality simply because we do not follow the laws of a primitive society of horrifically ignorant desert tribesmen who believed in witches and magic? Are you saying that without religion, the religious would immediately descend into mustache twirling villainy? Be serious Tucker, please.
For me, as a somewhat religious person, the tennents of faith were just a starting point in the evercontinuing process of defining my personal views on right and wrong.
Well isn’t that a wonderful buffet for you then, that you can pick which of your god’s laws to follow and simply ignore the rest of your god's laws. How delightful that must be for you.
Most religions today have flexibility built into them, and most religious people are not fanatics but pretty down to earth, normal persons.
And why is that Tucker? Why are today’s religions defanged and declawed in comparison to where they were just a few centuries ago? Let’s be intellectually honest about where this change is coming from, it’s coming from outside said religion. Religion comes to us today in such a delightfully flexible form and not fielding armies of genocidal rapists precisely because it has had to give up so much ground to secular and scientific breakthroughs. Freedom of Speech, Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion, Germ Theory, vaccinations, the theory of gravity etc, are all values that brutally annihilated their religious counterparts and replaced them, at least in most of the developed world.
Religious violence tends to underlie pretty bad social issues (poverty, corruption, etc). The conflict between the Shia and Sunnis isn t caused by different beliefs. That's just a casus belli as the romans used to say. It''s caused by POLITICAL competition between the historical civilisations of Persia (Iran) and Arabia (the Saudis). There are very real, down to earth reasons of why these states compete, that have little to do with religion. The world is bad because people are bad, regardless of what they believe in. Religion is just an excuse.
I really don’t know what evidence I can provide to you if someone strapping a bomb to their chests and blowing up school buses full of children while shouting “god is great” at the top of their lungs isn’t enough proof for you that these people honestly do believe in their heartfelt religious beliefs. They are literally martyring themselves in the name of their dogmatic god. What more evidence could you possibly need, or indeed could, be presented with to change your mind?

I would also argue that the many of the problems a nation is experiencing are directly linked to that particular nation's religious beliefs. If for example a nation has the heartfelt religious belief that every third child should have its eyes put out, that nation is going to be measurably worse off than nations which do not have that particular religious law. If a nation has a religion which mandates that half of it’s total population is forbidden from having jobs, owning property, investing, participating in the government, driving a vehicle, going out in public, forces them to wear cloth sacks and considers them to be incubators of the next generation of males and nothing else, that society is going to be measurably worse off (socially, culturally, politically, economically, militarily, etc) than nations which do not. Nations that have a religious viewpoint that climate change conflicts with the bible and choose not to prepare for it are going to be measurably worse off than nations who do prepare for the coming climate catastrophe, it's as simple as that.

The trend in political science is that the more religious a nation is, the worse off it is. Conversely, the better off a nation is the less religious it is. That goes for literacy, quality of life, quantity of life, education (college & other), GDP, etc. Less religious nations also experience less famine, disease, murder, crime, experience less civil strife, etc.

Tells you quite a bit about religion if the more religious a people are, the worse off they are. I guess their god must want them to suffer horribly or something. Doesn't seem to be an entity I would want to worship but to each their own I suppose.

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Grayhome wrote:However the Christian god vehemently disagrees with your opinion on the matter of human equality. You should read the Bible sometime, as it explains the matter with great (I would say sadistic) attention to detail. The Christian bible clearly and repeatedly states which humans are superior and which are inferior, and precisely what the superior humans can, and are indeed commanded to do unto the inferior ones. Slavery, being merely one example.
Out of curiosity: what part of the Bible are you talking about? Are there other, non christian "bibles"? Have you read other religious texts beside the Bible?
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Out of curiosity: what part of the Bible are you talking about?
http://www.openbible.info/topics/slavery That should be enough start off on.
Are there other, non christian "bibles"?
...Yes. Yes there are. Have you... have you not heard about this?
Have you read other religious texts beside the Bible?
Yes.
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No True Scotsman
A No True Scotsman fallacy occurs when (1) it is asserted that no true member of a group they belong to would do a certain or (2) a term is defined biasedly to allow easier use of the first form. Instead of acknowledging that some members of a group have characteristics that contradict an argument, the fallacy tries to redefine the group to exclude them.

The Association Fallacy
The association fallacy is an informal version of affirming the consequent. It consists of promoting an opinion of philosophy by recounting the values a specific person or a group that held that opinion of philosophy.

• Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist.
• King was a good person.
• Therefore, all Baptists are good. (a false assertion)

• Fred Phelps was a Baptist.
• Phelps was a bad person.
• Therefore, all Baptists are bad. (also a false assertion)

The Out-group Homogeneity Effect
A tenancy for people to view members of a group that is different from their own as being more similar to each other, while they view members of their own group as being more diverse, even when groups are assigned arbitrarily. "They are all alike," and "They all do this thing," are examples of the out-group homogeneity effect.

Illusory Correlation
The phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people, events, or behaviors) even when no such relationship exists. Illusory correlation can cause people to form false associations between membership in a group (typically a minority or out-group) and rare (typically negative) behaviors, as variables that are salient tend to capture the attention. Related to the Base Rate Fallacy, by ignoring the base rate of behavior in a group in general.

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It is not fair nor applicable to tar all religious people with the fundamentalist brush. Grayhome, while I do find myself agreeing with you on certain aspects, sweeping statements only undermine your argument and serve more to inflame than to press a point. Please ease up a bit as the tone emerging in the thread thus far is one that leads most religious discussion down the path of the flame war.

Since we're off topic at this point, if we're all intent on having a religious discussion, perhaps we can steer away from real life, which is contentious, and more towards our favourite fictional universe, which is a bit more fun.

With that in mind, a question arises. How fares the Church of the SubGenius in 2160? :P
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I second the motion to stop arguing about non-fictional religion in a thread about a fictional sci-fi webcomic.

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I second the motion to stop arguing about non-fictional religion in a thread about a fictional sci-fi webcomic.
I agree with you on this one. This discussion will lead nowhere except flames and anger.
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One last comment, please.
The bible, old testament (leviticus, the main "negative part about slavery in the bible), is pre-Christian.
The new testament is what differs Christianity from the old testament, which is included in the bible for historic reasons, and still holds value where the new testament does not contradict. Sweeping "all humans are equal" under the rug as being only one part of the bible is wrong, when I specifically ferred to Christianity.
But even within the new testament there are many contradicting passages.
But no version of the new testament (as a whole) contradicts Jesus in saying that all men are created equal. (single passages do, but they are teachings from Paul, Corinthians, ..., and not from JC)
In my opinion one of the main achievements of this book, although most teachers did not obey this central rule.
But I am not that religious. I refuse to participate in the sacrament, as I cannot combine that with my scientific beliefs....



As I have not yet finished reading all of the Insider yet, what do we know about Loroi religions?
They apotheosize the Soia, up to the point that 275k years did not make the languages drift apart to unrecognisable levels, while here on Earth even the 100+ dialects of the German language have not much in common with their counterparts of some 500 years ago, which are not understandable for any modern German, neither in their written versions, likely less in their vocal versions...
I can imagine that on planetary level telepathy may have prvented language drifts, but on interstellar level AND without any form of contact?
Humanity is not even that old... (+-200k years)

Genetic drift is another question I find unlikely to not have happened , especially in view of their shorter.generation length. But the male/female ratio may be a result of tinkering to keep the genetics more stable in an artificial life-form.
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Whelp, I'm not gonna continue this discussion to avoid nasty flame wars which would be extremely ungratefull towards Arioch and his lovely webcomic. He deserves better from us. So back to the topic at hand :) .
Krulle wrote:Genetic drift is another question I find unlikely to not have happened , especially in view of their shorter.generation length. But the male/female ratio may be a result of tinkering to keep the genetics more stable in an artificial life-form.
I thought the ratio resulted from the need to have large numbers for large armies. Though keeping evolution in check by limiting genetic drift is also an intriguing possibility. Homo Sapiens Sapiens didn't exist 275k years ago. That was Homo Neandertalis, Homo Heidelbergis , Denisovans and Floriensis. Humans have evolved quite a bit since then, but the Loroi seem to have stagnated. I wonder if the other Soia races evolved over time (think there are references to proto-Neridi and proto-Barsam).

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Krulle wrote:As I have not yet finished reading all of the Insider yet, what do we know about Loroi religions?
Most Loroi subcultures practice a sort of ancestor worship connected to the recounting of the heroic deeds of the litanies, and the oldest of these have been abstracted to the point that they sound not dissimilar to the kinds of godlike characters that one encounters in human mythology. Though they may seem less fanciful when one considers that the Loroi ancestors really did have supernatural-seeming power, both in psionic abilities and in the godlike technologies that existed in the Soia era.

The closest a Loroi subculture comes to having what we would recognize as a formal "religion" was in some of the highlands cultures of ancient Perrein, which worshipped the sun. They had formal ritual practices including idols, a male priesthood, et cetera.

Some Loroi do follow alien religions, including the Barsam religion. They are probably viewed by Loroi society at large in a similar way that we view cultists.
Krulle wrote:They apotheosize the Soia, up to the point that 275k years did not make the languages drift apart to unrecognisable levels, while here on Earth even the 100+ dialects of the German language have not much in common with their counterparts of some 500 years ago, which are not understandable for any modern German, neither in their written versions, likely less in their vocal versions...
I can imagine that on planetary level telepathy may have prvented language drifts, but on interstellar level AND without any form of contact?
Humanity is not even that old... (+-200k years)
While I'll admit that it's a tricky pill to swallow, consider these mitigating factors:
  • The Soia language was derived from ancient written examples which still exist today. The advent of writing (especially print) greatly reduces the drift of language, and each time a Loroi civilization fell and another rose, it referenced these same archaic written sources.
  • The Loroi use language for formal written communication and archives, not for daily conversation, so the rate of drift is not as high as it is in our spoken languages.
  • Despite these factors, there were and still are many differing dialects, especially on Perrein where there were fewer archaic Trade sources. Since the Loroi are telepathic, this was not a serious problem during contact. Though many local dialects still exist, in the intervening ~1350 years since contact, the Loroi have consolidated around an official "Loroi standard" dialect, which is mostly based on the Zaral Deinar version. This is also the version that Union has (mostly) standardized on.
  • Since the rediscovery of starflight, the Historians have also been disseminating a version of Trade in non-Loroi regions which was also based on archaic Soia sources, but the Historians without doubt were aware of the Loroi version, even before formal contact, and so may have made accommodations in their own version. The pronunciation of this "Historian standard" dialect is different, but the grammar is mostly the same. This would be the version which the Orgus learned and taught to Alex. That Alex can so readily understand the Loroi dialect is a bit of a conceit, to be sure, but a necessary one.
Krulle wrote:Genetic drift is another question I find unlikely to not have happened , especially in view of their shorter.generation length. But the male/female ratio may be a result of tinkering to keep the genetics more stable in an artificial life-form.
Genetic drift surely did happen; I don't see any reason to assume that it didn't. But I doubt that anyone but a biologist would be able to identify the differences in a living archaic Homo sapiens from 275,000 years ago if he met one today dressed in modern clothing.

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Krulle wrote:Genetic drift surely did happen; I don't see any reason to assume that it didn't. But I doubt that anyone but a biologist would be able to identify the differences in a living archaic Homo sapiens from 275,000 years ago if he met one today dressed in modern clothing.
Probably even less for the loroi. As a synthetic created species they may have been made resilient to mutation with a more robust genome structure. It would still be there but perhaps to a lesser degree. Still the way they reproduce would allow for planned breeding on desirable traits.

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But Humanity did not exist 275k years ago.
Even non-biologist can see the difference from Homo xyz of that time to todays Homo Sapiens.
And there are notable differences from the first Homo Sapiens 200k years ago to today's Homo Sapiens.
Heck, archaeologists can even differentiate between an ancient Egypt Homo-bones and ancient Maya Homo-bones....
And a skeleton can be put into a certain time period by its length alone. The skeleton provides enough information to tell us something about how old that Human was when it died, and from the body length we can deduct when he lived.
Modern Humans are much longer than medieval Humans. (But that is not due to genetic drift. Just better access to hygiene, clean water, better food, and now medicine too.)

And the Loroi give birth when younger than Humans, especially during warring times.
As such, their generations happen more often than ours, and that is of the main influence in genetic evolution.
There was some talk about genetic drift, in that some Loroi clans have a lighter skin colour, different hair colours,...
But on interplanetary scale, without exchange of genetic materials, on such a time scale you can expect genetic drift to occur that would prohibit interspecies offspring by now (after all that time, the Loroi should have split into three species - one for each of the sister planets). Especially if one planet does provide totally different food (from non Soia-planet food plants and livestock). you can expect those Loroi who can digest the local food better to have an advantage, thus leading a genetic drift away from the Loroi baseline.

I attribute the missing genetic drift to the Soia having tinkered with the genes, and thus providing a little bit more stability, so that the Loroi would only have achieved genetic drift if they would have bred themselves by limiting offspring to those parents who show certain traits. Like only allowing those to procreate that have (strong) telekinesis.
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Their generations also live a hell of a lot longer than ours and are fertile for a lot longer than ours. Human women are only reliably fertile until their 40's, after which things start to get sketchy.

Compare with the Loroi, who do get fertile earlier, but also stay fertile for much longer and tend to found stratified societies where reproduction is strictly controlled. They don't breed like rabbits outside of wartime. The most likely outcome is that older, more commanding and authoritative Loroi likely have the most children, as opposed to letting the young ones have their turn.

The result is that while Loroi can reproduce more quickly and on a shorter wavelength, they generally don't. Outside of wartime, their lives are four times longer and heavily weighted towards older females reproducing rather than younger ones.

Thus you can more or less divide that 275,000 years by about four to get a 'human equivalent' of genetic drift and change. That works out to 68750 years. Enough for some phenotypical changes, like skin colour, the shapes of eyes and the like, but not really enough to make a huge difference. A human from 68750 years ago wouldn't be too terribly different from one now. They just might have a novel skin and eye colour combinations, or slightly differing variances of certain mutations.

The biggest difference in terms of time was cultural and mental. People thought differently back then since their society and upbringing was completely different from ours.
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Krulle wrote:But Humanity did not exist 275k years ago.
Archaic Homo sapiens has been dated back to some half-million years ago; to say that they were not Human seems absurd to me, but I suppose it depends on your definition. They had language and culture and fairly sophisticated tools. There is still debate about where the species lines are (as it's now clear from genetic evidence that many early hominids that were once thought to be difference species interbred frequently), but they were essentially the same species that we are now. I would go farther and argue that even earlier humans such as Homo erectus from a million years ago would still be considered essentially human, and very hard to tell from modern humans in the right environment. The Victorian-era concept of H. habilis and H. erectus as stooped, bedraggled ape-men has long since been shown to be false.
Krulle wrote:Even non-biologist can see the difference from Homo xyz of that time to todays Homo Sapiens.
And there are notable differences from the first Homo Sapiens 200k years ago to today's Homo Sapiens.
Heck, archaeologists can even differentiate between an ancient Egypt Homo-bones and ancient Maya Homo-bones....
And a skeleton can be put into a certain time period by its length alone. The skeleton provides enough information to tell us something about how old that Human was when it died, and from the body length we can deduct when he lived.
Modern Humans are much longer than medieval Humans. (But that is not due to genetic drift. Just better access to hygiene, clean water, better food, and now medicine too.)
There are surely differences between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but as far as I'm aware, the features that distinguish "fully modern" Homo sapiens sapiens would take an expert looking at bones to detect. They would be smaller than average from our point of view, to be sure, but that's an issue of nutrition and environment, and not of genetics. Short people do exist in the modern world, as do people of widely varying races (compare the facial features of a European to a Mongolian to an Australian aborigine), but they're still the same species. I'd bet that if I raised an archaic Homo sapiens on modern food in a modern household, nobody but an expert would know that he wasn't a "modern" human.

Hower, since we can't summon an archaic Homo sapiens to look at, there's no satisfactory way to prove this point one way or the other.
Krulle wrote:I attribute the missing genetic drift to the Soia having tinkered with the genes, and thus providing a little bit more stability, so that the Loroi would only have achieved genetic drift if they would have bred themselves by limiting offspring to those parents who show certain traits. Like only allowing those to procreate that have (strong) telekinesis.
What "missing drift" are you referring to? How do you know what Loroi ancestors looked like 275,000 years ago?

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Post by Krulle »

I don't know. But it would be very lucky if all three sister worlds evolved in the same direction.

Anyway, a lot of my initial concerns in this direction have been eliminated by your answers.
Thank you.
Vote for Outsider on TWC: Image
charred steppes, borders of territories: page 59,
jump-map of local stars: page 121, larger map in Loroi: page 118,
System view Leido Crossroads: page 123, after the battle page 195

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