u/Mowraq

It is probably just because Dennis Taylor decided on some random number but is anyone else irked out by the fact that 86 years after Herschel and Neil left Sol in 2259 with the remaining 14 million humans, the human population already blew up to 60 billion in 2345 according to Bill? If one takes into account the travel time for the 14 million to their colonies they maybe had 70 years to propagate. Even if you factor in a generous growth for the already established colonies fom one million to 11 million and low mortality rates each couple would require 20-30 kids at least. (Yes, I asked ChatGPT, sue me ;))

I only recently finished the fifth book and I am puzzled by the whole Alexander situation. Everything about him screams "replicant" in my opinion. He has parts of an interstellar ship and parts of a scut which he turned into a canoe, a thing completely unknown to the dragons (I get why he would keep the canoe but why keep that chunk of useless metal instead of melting it into spear tips?). He is inofficially from Lemuria but claims he only went there and came back (why go in the first place?), and didn't find any dragon population there that he could hail from. He supposedly comes from a family that has knowledge about the fish population dating back millennia in an iron age society. He notices Howard and Bridgets fast intercom communication and easily notices their advanced knowledge and he is only interested in Bridget for her mind, not as a mate. And after he did what he wanted, which was saving the dragons, he seemingly really disbanded his floatilla. Nothing of this makes sense for a biological being but a lot for a replicant trying to help. I wonder why nor Howard neither Bridget ever thought in that direction. Any opinions on that?

Edit: I should probably add that I think he somehow got stranded on the planet.

I searched the internet but the only results were from shortly after game release. Is it by now somehow possible to have a matrilinear marriage that keeps the mothers dynasty? I am doing a montferrat run and really want to keep the palaiologos dynasty alive.

It is minor but somehow it really annoys me. Whoever programmed the roman borders at tinto did a really bad job and decided to just declare nine regions as roman borders and no one in the team noticed or did care. Bits in the caucasus, northern and southern germany are completely ignored while all of britain including scotland is counted as inside roman borders. I think this is embarassing and way beneath Paradox' usual standards. Just had to get this out of my system.