Howdy,
The joke on the Vargr jump drives?
ie Vargr jump drive: Barium --> Bury 'em.
I don't think it would be particularly funny to the first
human explorers who contacted the Vargr. For one thing,
I doubt the joke translates into Vilani. For another, the
average Vilani spacer doesn't even KNOW what kind of material
is in his drives.
And, considering as this contact was made around the Eleventh
Century AD, (presumably when the Vargr stopped using Barium)
The joke would make about as much sence in the time of the
Imperium as would a similar joke about the Solmani attempts to
prove the existence of the Aether. :-)
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Scott 2G Kellogg
"I'm not wreckless! I'm self-preservationally challenged!"