Re: Knothole's Origins (fwd)

From: Dan Drazen <drazen_at_andrews.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:58:58 -0500 (EST)

>
> In the Sat. AM episode "Blast to the Past", it was established that
> Knothole village existed even before the coup. Now, my personal theory
> is that it and other such secret villages were established as safe havens
> for the mobian royal family and citizens during the Great War.
>
> There's only one problem with this idea: if the King knew of the location
> of these villages (as evinced by his list of Freedom Fighter groups),
> wouldn't his Minister of War (Robotnik) have known them as well? I'm
> assuming that the King made the list before he was thrown into the Void,
> as he seems pretty cut off from the goings-on of Mobius now that he's in
> the Void. Besides, how would Ari have known of the list if it hadn't
> existed before the King entered the Void? Any ideas about either question?
>
> Perhaps King Acorn didn't really trust his Minister of War as much as he
> seemed to, and so kept the locations secret from him.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Theodore P. Perrotti tedp_at_wpi.edu (all mail forwarded to here)
>

That's the question I wrestled with as well. My solution, as spelled
out in Chapter 2 of my fanfic "Capture The Flag," was that Knothole had
been thought of as a safe haven, then a royal retreat once the tide of
battle had turned. I never got around to saying so, but Robotnik (dba
Julian) wasn't in the loop, though Sir Charles Hedgehog was. That also
explains how the ring generator got there.

The business with the list, OTOH, is a serious plot hole.
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