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velociraptor
sunstone theory part 3
Thu Feb 20 05:57:46 2003
The ‘Terrible Place’, Modern Dinotopia
On the day when the city of Sauropolis was officially created a storm·
blew several ships into the reef near the entrance to dolphin bay. The dolphins,
showing remarkable spirit and kindliness, helped bring the survivors to shore.
On seeing this great marble city, still small and built mainly on Egyptian
design, with Brachiosaurs and Apatosaurus towering above its roofs and the few
raptors that had stayed in the civilized portion of the island darting through
the streets, one of the survivors exclaimed ‘Sauropolis’, e.g. ‘City of lizards’
and the name stuck. That same roman helped design many of the buildings in
Sauropolis and later one of his comrades, who had been shipwrecked further along
and lived in the jungle before being found and rescued over 15 months later
coined the name ‘Dinotopia’, eg ‘terrible place’ from he hardships he had
suffered away from civilized Dinotopia
Though it was universally agreed·
that Sauropolis was to be the new capital of Dinotopia, the Baz based saurians
and humans wished to construct a city that was dedicated to art and science and
the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge. Thus in 21AD Waterfall City was founded
along with Pooktook and Treetown to be the regional capitals of Dinotopia.
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The skybax core, founded for the Chandaran empire as airborne warriors and
scouts by Gideon Altair, set up their base of operations in Canyon City and
became the Messengers and highly trained fast response personnel of the island,
discipline was highly stressed in the majority of training and the ‘sky core’,
as it was nicknamed, were the first to modify the greeting of ‘breathe deep,
seek peace to the ‘fliers’ variant of breathe deep, Fly high. Eventually, as the
custom of human-saurian bonding was adapted in the habitat partners was created,
this adaptation became one of three major ones. Breathe deep, run fast for land
based partners and ‘Breathe deep, Dive Below for the dolphins and their kin.
The codes of Dinotopia were attached to the great pyramid in the newly·
founded waterfall city in the year AD26
Between then and the mid 1800’s·
Dinotopia enjoyed a golden age and many significant scientific and creative
breakthroughs were made
In the late 1800’s Arthur and William Denison·
arrived on the island, the first ‘Dolphinbacks’ for 40 years. In the following
years William managed to get up to an uncommonly large amount of trouble,
outwitting pirates and searching for the lost ‘Hand of Dinotopia’, the sea route
which the city of brass used to enter and exit the seas around the island
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During the world wars, the HMS Indomitable was sunk only 30 kilometers from the
island, and many soldiers drowned. A few, though, were rescued by the dolphins
including Saura Groeben, the later chief healer of the island
In the late·
1990’s a light aircraft crashed into the sea three miles out from the razor
reef. This event sparked the greatest period of turmoil and change known on
Dinotopia for millennia with the destruction of Volcaneum and several other
small cities in its vicinity. The perpetrators were later Skybax master David
and healer Karl Scott.
As the new millennium began Volcaneum began to be·
rebuilt and Waterfall City went through major repairs. Also, a new city was
created down the coast from Prosperine and is still under construction and will
be named when it is completed. Sunstones have become more common and are once
more being used, albeit less widely than before they were sealed beneath the
ground
During the rebuilding of Volcaneum sunstones played a major part in providing a
temporary smithy while the permanent volcanic smithies were being rebuilt. Also
the heroic actions of Karl and David brought back a small cache of sunstones
which are now being used, albeit cautiously as many Dinotopian still view
sunstones as capable of doing great harm if misused. Myth of sunstones has
flourished through the ages and every storyteller on the island has at least one
tale concerning the great stones from space. Even some core Dinotopian beliefs
are based around the rocks. Where sunstones will take the island in the future I
cannot say, but I hazard that without them Dinotopia never would have been.
‘the sunstone has many properties hereto undiscovered in the regions outside of
the island. It is my belief therefore that the sunstones are a direct result
from the asteroid that crashed into the island at the dawn of time, either being
present in the asteroid or created by the extreme forces released upon impact.
The stone seems to have an innate property to store solar radiation, how it does
so however is a mystery to me. The science of geology is not my field of
expertise. Maybe the esteemed sages of the island will be able to give me more
information on this remarkable mineral’
Research notes of Arthur Denison