From: jdelisle@udel.edu (J. G. Delisle)
Subject: Re: Valiant: Rai#0
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:27:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.213328.19162@mail.cornell.edu>, Stephen Chan <sc17@cornell.edu> writes...
>    Unfortunately, there are multiple timelines. That's what Erica Pierce
>wanted to get rid of through Unity. (According to her, time is like a
>hurricane, where multiple timelines swarm around the Lost Land.) Also,
>the "first" Solar in issues 1-4 of "Solar" was from another timeline. In
>addition, the "Alpha and Omega" storyline in "Solar" 1-10 took place in
>that other timeline (I wonder why the Toyo Harada of that timeline didn't
>try to stop that Solar from destroying the world?).

	I was under the impression (from Rai #0 and a few issues of Solar),
that it's not multiple timelines so much as it is alternate universes. (BTW,
does Solar #3 say anything about this? It's the only issue I don't have.)
(Then again, maybe we're using different terminology for the same idea.)
	As for Toyo... in Solar's original timeline, the world was "just like
the one outside our window", except for Seleski and his project. Harada wasn't
a telepath, he was just a regular guy.

>    Sadly, Rai #0 has revealed the inconsistencies of the Valiant
>Universe. According to Rokkie, after Solar split into two separate
>beings, Solar "former" was not seen again until the Spider Aliens tried
>to invade earth in 4001. Yet, if you read the issue of "Solar" (#12, I
>think) that contains the Unity chapter of the life of Erica Pierce from
>1992-4001, there's a panel where Albert and a woman watch Solar fix a
>space station in 3000 and something. In addition, Solar had to be around
>to retrieve the baby Magnus towards the end of the 40th century, as seen
>at the end of "Unity" #1.

	I think the inconsistencies are more a point of view thing. The
story is being told from Rokkie's point of view, that of a geomancer. From
what I can glean from Rai #0, geomancers don't know everything that goes on,
and they know nothing about what happens off-planet. Rokkie may not have 
known about the satellite incident, and since he was working for a Geomancer,
picking up Magnus wouldn't be considered "taking action" (especially since he
did nothing in the Harbinger Wars).

>    There's one more thing about the future of the Valiant Universe that
>bugs me. As shown in "Rai" #0, the number of people with Harbinger
>potential/power kept growing and growing throughout the centuries. But
>when we come to the 41st century, we only see three people with
>extraordinary abilities: Magnus, Leeja, and her telepath mentor. What
>happened? Where did this "next step of evolution" go? 

	Doesn't a Harbinger ability have to "jump started" by a telepath, the
way Sting "started" Shatiqua's power? (What is her power anyway -- super speed,
or super reflexes?) Anyone out there with early issues of Harbinger know?

	Just my $.02
	Joe Delisle

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