Talk:Conquistador (novel)

Wolfe's decendents
It states that the Pocahontas line died out in our time line, but her son. Thomas Wolfe had many descendents that live on to this day.

This wiki article talks of some of them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas#Descendants


 * It was really her male line that died out. The only descent is through granddaughters.  Stirling posited two additional sons, through at least one of which the male line survived.  Careless reading and writing on my part.  I won't put it back in; how many people would know that Pocahantas has no male line descendants?  I doubt if many of Stirling's readers would read the passage in the book and say "That's not so."--Wehwalt 02:05, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Gate to Uninhabited World
My guess would be that Rolfe would be thrilled with the gate that opens up to the world (or at least Americas) uninhabited by humans. After all, the guy was quite taken with reseeding North America with large animals similar to the ones hunted to extinction thousands of years go. Here's his chance to get ahold of the real deal. I can easily see him ordering the misdirected portal kept open for a year or so and hiring expeditions to go through and capture breeding populations of the aforementioned sabertooths, as well as wooly mammoths & rhinos, giant sloths and tortoises, moas and giant eagles from New Zealand, you name it. Dyolf Knip 17:20, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Probably will keep it open while Ralph and Lermontov confer and try to figure out if there is any way to reset it. That would give time for the hunting expeditions you mention.  You'd at least want to go through and set up a fence or something so you don't have sabertooth tigers wandering through the Gate.  My guess is that there is zero, in other words reciprical infinity, chance of finding the exact same world, based on Ralph's statement in the flashback that there are an infinite number of worlds.  However, that is not a long term thing, Rolfe will do his damnest to get back the connection to the original world, but I think it will be unavailing.  By the time they give up entirely, he will likely be dead, and Charles will have to lead the nation in tooling back to a sustainable level.  The Gate will be kept open to SOME world, we can only speculate on what kind of world that would be.--Wehwalt 00:34, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup
I made some changes to the article by trimming the plot summary and adding new sections on the history and politics of the Commonwealth of New Virginia. Its been a while though since I read the book and I don't have the appendixes in the back of the book in front of me at the moment, so any help any of you guys can provide would be great in an effort to improve this article. Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 14:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 12:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)