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Rebek was an Age that had an intelligent non-human native population. The Age might have been privately commissioned or it may have originally been written as a mining Age.

The DRC located the linking book to Rebek and found it interesting enough to schedule it for restoration. However, in July of 2002, when it was in Phase 2 of its restoration, Dr. Watson suspended the work. He made this notation in the official files: "Environmental abnormalities - too dangerous". He also said, "The environment is a large space with some unusual gravitational / magnetic anomalies. We don't consider it a safe place to be spending a lot of time at the moment."

According to a journal written by Douglas Sharper, the suspension had little to do with Dr. Watson's official comments. Instead, Watson found out that there had been a group of D'ni who had hunted intelligent beings there, and the idea that D'ni citizens had owned and hunted slaves to be so repulsive that he suspended restoration of the Age. Sharper wrote in one of his Teledahn journals, "Games with the slaves from here were played there. Hunting game of sorts. I'm not for hunting people but the game does sound fun."

Nick White, in a conversation held in the Kahlo Pub, cofirmed that Rebek once was home to an intelligent species. A group of D'ni who were breaking the laws regarding how Ages and ahrotahntee were to be treated hunted them for sport until they became extinct. Then they began to purchase slaves from a man named Manesmo, who used Teledahn as a waystation, so they could continue with their games. Nick implied that the slaves were not the Bahro. This idea is supported by the Bahro pictographs in Eder Kemo. Two of the pictographs show Rebek and Teledahn respectively. In both, the slaves shown in cages do not resemble the figures they used to represent themselves.

Yeesha spoke of the slaves held on Teledahn in her Path of the Hand speeches, but hinted heavily that it was the Bahro who were kept in the cage there. She did not say it outright, however, and did not offer any proof to support it.


The natives:

This is the Bahro pictograph from Eder Kemo, which shows D'ni men with bows and spears along the top and left edges, tracks that show stumpy marks that are probably footprints and what seem to be prints of groups of three fingers on the right, and a figure in a prison cage in the lower rigth. Above the cage are two figures that are laying down and bleeding from wounds.

Bahro Rebek glyph

This is a DRC sketch of what may be the non-human slaves that were purchased by the hunters. Compare them to the figures in the Bahroglyph. They have the three-fingered hands hinted at by the marks on the right of the Bahroglyph, and feet that are reminiscent of an elephant's, which would match up with the tracks drawn in the pictograph. Judging from the pictograph tracks, they may have used their knuckles to aid in walking, somewhat like a gorilla.

Rebek natives?


The Age:

This is a rough map of the area the DRC linked into, with names they gave various features.

Overview

This is a sketch of the area the DRC called the Fish Bowl. Note the floating rocks. Remembering the floating sculptures of Eder Kemo and Eder Delin, I wonder if the stone used to make the monuments was imported from Rebek?

The Fish Bowl

This is a colored sketch of the area called The Glades on the DRC map.

Glades

These sketches are of two sculptures found in the Age, which the DRC called idols. Note the overall human appearance, although the figures have six fingers and toes on each limb. The first figure seems to have four arms, judging by the number of fingers visible.

Idol 1

Idol 2

This sketch is of a jungle not marked on the map.

Jungle

These two sketches apparently show the area marked as the Quarry on the map. If it is indeed a D'ni rock quarry, that may add weight to the theory that they used this rock to make the floating sculptures in the garden Ages.

Quarry

Roped Rock

This sketch may be the unmarked area in the lower left corner of the map. The sketch is marked "Temple", although the artist also wrote "rebek.middle ridge.ruins" on the face, along with his name. The sculptures in this sketch are native portrayals of themselves, or perhaps their gods if the "temple" name is true. It's interesting to note that although the remains of the sculptures float, they were attached to the ground at their bases when made. The one on the right still is. It's not unreasonable to think that the damage to them may well have been caused deliberately by the D'ni hunters, who would have had no respect for the religion of their victims.

Temple

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