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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3528925" data-attributes="member: 2205">I think the bit theme vis a viz the dinosaur worlds is that we were evolved by some outside governing agent that evolved us to where we are today.&nbsp; Why did they do so?&nbsp; I'm not sure yet.&nbsp; But that's the big question/mystery/theme of this whole idea.If you know much about vertebrate paleontology, one of the more curious things is that therapsids--who were primitive &quot;almost mammals&quot; were pretty much all the big megafauna in the Permian and throughout much of the Triassic, whilst the &quot;thecodonts&quot; which were the &quot;almost dinosaurs&quot; starting horning in on their ecological niches throughout the Triassic, and by the time the Jurassic came along, their domination via the dinosaurs was complete.&nbsp; It was the original hostile takeover.&nbsp; The funny thing is, of course, that at the end of the Cretaceous, the original dynasty took back over and has held the line ever since.What was that all about?&nbsp; Some kind of power struggle between gray alien factions; one who favored mammalian evolution and one who favored dinosaurian?&nbsp; And what does that mean potentially for the setting?Anyway, these are questions that I've thought of but have--as yet--no answer to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 3528925, member: 2205"] I think the bit theme vis a viz the dinosaur worlds is that we were evolved by some outside governing agent that evolved us to where we are today. Why did they do so? I'm not sure yet. But that's the big question/mystery/theme of this whole idea. If you know much about vertebrate paleontology, one of the more curious things is that therapsids--who were primitive "almost mammals" were pretty much all the big megafauna in the Permian and throughout much of the Triassic, whilst the "thecodonts" which were the "almost dinosaurs" starting horning in on their ecological niches throughout the Triassic, and by the time the Jurassic came along, their domination via the dinosaurs was complete. It was the original hostile takeover. The funny thing is, of course, that at the end of the Cretaceous, the original dynasty took back over and has held the line ever since. What was that all about? Some kind of power struggle between gray alien factions; one who favored mammalian evolution and one who favored dinosaurian? And what does that mean potentially for the setting? Anyway, these are questions that I've thought of but have--as yet--no answer to. [/QUOTE]

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