That's the assumption I was going on for quite awhile myself, and my curiosity would probably have never gone beyond that if Gillian and Kaa and Tsh't and even the Niss Machine hadn't wondered something like, "Whatever compelled Creideiki to set a course for the Shallow Cluster anyway?!!?" just about every other page in _Heaven's Reach_. It just made me think that there might have been more to it than sheer hunch.
Speculating a bit along the "time traveling" notion: could it be that Creideiki (and perhaps Tom Orley) were a pair of travelers from humanity's far future? Might explain some things. At 09:28 AM 12/18/2001, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote: > > As for Creideiki... He may have simply had a hunch about investigating the > > Shallow Cluster, but I do think that there is a possibility that there > > might have been a bit more to it than that... given the draw that older > > races felt towards the "Embrace of Tides" and the dislike that most older > > races had for flat space. > >My impression (it's been a while since I read the books) was that the >Shallow Cluster was chosen because the goal was to find mistakes in the >Library, and the Shallow Cluster, being the ass-end of space so to speak, >seemed a good place to start looking for errors because it was the sort >of place nobody would normally want to go.. Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exup�ry "Push the button, Max!"
