Re: Heaven's Reach
William Taylor <[email protected]> Thu, 16 May 2013 13:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============4019788462303928692== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--------MB_8D02074FBCA440B_1EAC_99C4F_webmail-m291.sysops.aol.com" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ----------MB_8D02074FBCA440B_1EAC_99C4F_webmail-m291.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 1. When Gillian traded things with Uriel, did she takeany rewqs?=20 They'd be very valuable both for Earthclanand for that Hoon colony=20 Alvin and Huck moved to. Not mentioned. Could go either way if our good Dr. has anything planned.=20 And you forgot to mention Mudfoot. (Then again, Contacting Aliens forgot to mention the Rousit.) 2. Did we ever find out why Gillian wanted a herd ofGlavers? I doubt they're legally available for upliftyet, but Contacting=20 Aliens does say they haven't beenspotted (in the other Galaxies)=20 in 2000 years. Did shefigure they might be the last of their=20 kind, and wantto prevent the Jophur from killing them all? IIRC, Glavers still had a knack for talking to hydrogen breathers. 3. When Streaker and Polkjhy exchanged people andchunks of hull,=20 did Lark and Ling give any of the redrings to Gillian? Those rings=20 are a potent biologicaldefense against Jophur invasions, so it'd be=20 nice forEarthclan to have some.(It would hypothetically also have=20 made it possible forDwer to take a few back to Jijo, but I doubt=20 David Brinwould make things so narratively "easy" for Jijo.) This I know: The red rings are not being used for the retaking of=20 the Jijo Library. And the Jijo Library is not the biggest souce of books on Jijo.=20 That's the Rothen ship--at least until the 4th dimention closes down. 4. Lark saw an Urs on Polkjhy, stuck in an air bubble. Why would any Urs accept such a watery/confined fate? She'll be stuck in that little bubble for the rest ofher life.=20 Why didn't she go onto the Streaker while allthose Dolphins were=20 going onto Polkjhy? Unknown. Urs is not to reason why. Vilyehm=20 ----------MB_8D02074FBCA440B_1EAC_99C4F_webmail-m291.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <font color=3D'black' size=3D'2' face=3D'arial'> <div><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></div> <div><br> <tt> 1. When Gillian traded things with Uriel, did she take any rewqs? </tt></div> <div><tt>They'd be very valuable both for Earthclan and for that Hoon colony </tt></div> <div><tt>Alvin and Huck moved to.</tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>Not mentioned. Could go either way if our good Dr. has anything pl= anned. </tt></div> <div><tt>And you forgot to mention Mudfoot.</tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>(Then again, Contacting Aliens forgot to mention the Rousit.)</tt>= </div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt> 2. Did we ever find out why Gillian wanted a herd of Glavers?</tt></div> <div><tt> I doubt they're legally available for uplift yet, but Contacting </tt></div> <div><tt>Aliens does say they haven't been spotted (in the other Galaxies) </tt></div> <div><tt>in 2000 years. Did she figure they might be the last of their </tt></div> <div><tt>kind, and want to prevent the Jophur from killing them all? </tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>IIRC, Glavers still had a knack for talking to hydrogen breathers. </tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>3. When Streaker and Polkjhy exchanged people and chunks of hull, </tt></div> <div><tt>did Lark and Ling give any of the red rings to Gillian? Those rings </tt></div> <div><tt>are a potent biological defense against Jophur invasions, so it'd be </tt></div> <div><tt>nice for Earthclan to have some. (It would hypothetically also have </tt></div> <div><tt>made it possible for Dwer to take a few back to Jijo, but I doubt </tt></div> <div><tt>David Brin would make things so narratively "easy" for Jijo.)</tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>This I know: The red rings are not being used for the retakin= g of </tt></div> <div><tt>the Jijo Library.</tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>And the Jijo Library is not the biggest souce of books on Jijo. </= tt></div> <div><tt>That's the Rothen ship--at least until the 4th dimention closes do= wn.</tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt> 4. Lark saw an Urs on Polkjhy, stuck in an air bubble. </tt></div> <div><tt>Why would any Urs accept such a watery/confined fate? </tt></div> <div><tt>She'll be stuck in that little bubble for the rest of her life. </tt></div> <div><tt>Why didn't she go onto the Streaker while all those Dolphins were </tt></div> <div><tt>going onto Polkjhy? </tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>Unknown.</tt></div> <div><tt></tt> </div> <div><tt>Urs is not to reason why.</tt> </div> <div> </div> <div>Vilyehm <!-- end of AOLMsgPart_0_87daceec-9a95-4a52-80d2-87f68031= 9b0a --></div> </font> ----------MB_8D02074FBCA440B_1EAC_99C4F_webmail-m291.sysops.aol.com-- --===============4019788462303928692== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline