Jmp12 wrote:
For another, the D'ni were xenophobic, and, if I remember the DRC journal in Eder Kemo right, they were technically supposed to destroy all links to any ages that already had people in them. (Am I mis-remembering that?) Writing man-made structures into a world seems like a good way to also get people, which the D'ni would not want. Therefore, if I understand correctly, machinery and man-made structures were usually built by D'ni workers. (I know they sometimes broke their "don't mess with age-dwellers" rule, e.g. with Laki'ahn, but I don't think I'm mis-remembering them having such a rule... Can't seem to find any online copies of the DRC journal from Kemo either.)
The Story of Shomat does comment on the fact that they stopped Links to inhabited Ages there are numerous examples where they didn't (Rebek, Laki'ahn, Pento, Dahtahmnay and so on) I'd probably not put a whole lot of stock in that to be honest.