No, they did. Wars were constantly being fought over religious beliefs, and after awhile the governing bodies had had enough. About 2,000 years ago, all religions were pretty much knocked down from their high horses. Over many, many years, technology and science grew stronger and made further advances, wars became very infrequent, and society as a whole began to grow.
There are still religious beliefs, mind you. The basic purpose of it is to try to explain the very beginning of their world. Why are their some species that exist as both 2-legged AND 4-legged, while others are only 4-legged? Because of various similarities, even across species lines, many folks wonder what sort of creature, or event, occurred which spurred on their evolution. Whatever sort of being (god, alien, or mutation) it was, it obviously walked upright on 2 legs, had 2 eyes, was capable of advanced reasoning and thought, and so on. But no one knows who, or what, such a creature may have been. And so they fall back upon their religions to explain the things their science cannot yet explain.
--JMH
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Tom Jones <darkfxn@...> wrote:
>
> 400 years ahead of ours... so in other words they didnt have to go thru the dark
> ages with all the religious extremist shenanigans?
>
>
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>
> ________________________________
> From: jmhcustomart2004 <a_change_of_plans_at_...>
> To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 3:44:10 AM
> Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Somewhat random topic
>
>
> There sure is. A massive world-wide war started in 1412, initiated by the
> various governments placing restrictions on the number of offspring a family
> could have, a severe drought and crop destruction due to unusually large amounts
> of insects, and large groups of citizens grouping together to form factions to
> overthrow their country's governing bodies. The actual fighting lasted 5 years,
> but things didn't resume normalcy until 1475 or so. Millions died during the
> battles; between the loss of life (mostly males) and the previous offspring
> restrictions, the female population was greater than the male population.
>
> In the Caterwaul/Skunkworks world, it is currently 1754 (or 1755, I forget
> which). Despite the date, their civilizations are about 400 years ahead of
> ours.
>
> --JMH
>
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Joshua" <draeg_of_narnia@> wrote:
> >
> > Is there any particular reason for this in the series? Like some event that
> >caused this particular ratio to come about or is it just one of those random
> >things?
> >
> > --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "jmhcustomart2004" <a_change_of_plans@>
> >wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Joshua" <draeg_of_narnia@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I remember, I managed to score all four issues of the orignal series at AC
> >09. =3
> > > >
> > > > Again, looking forward to reading that series when it comes out.
> > > >
> > > > Onto to Caterwaul, is there any particular reason all the memebers were
> >female?
> > >
> > >
> > > Their world has a higher female-to-male ratio than ours. It's a little over
> >2:1.
> > >
> > > There ARE male main characters in the series; (Caterwaul Red, for example,
> >has 3 males), Detective Franklin Stone is definitely male, and several of the
> >"behind the scenes" members of Caterwaul are male as well.
> > >
> > > --JMH
> > >
> >
>
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