Trent Shipley wrote: > >> In _Startide Rising_, there's a reference to the _Canaan Colonies_ >> that can be defended by the Tymbrimi. Maybe these are the colonies >> [notice the plural!] around Alpha Centauri. The plural suggests that >> there could be two [or three] of them, around desolate worlds in >> that system. > > Yes we could, if I hadn't already taken the time to write up Easter. > > There was also mention in GU1 of the Cygnus Colonies. I had always > assumed that both the Canaan and Cygnus colonies were unspecified > subsets of the colonies already listed. > I have never heard about those Cygnus Colonies
> Also, you will recall that the problem wasn't that we couldn't come up with > 10 major colonies. We had a perfect count. > > 1-Atlast: > 2-Calafia: > 3-Deemi: > 4-Dezni: > 5-Garth: > 6-Horst: > 7-Mars: > 8-Omnivarium: > 9-NuDawn (Mudaun in Gal-7): > 10-Venus: > I think we all agreed that Mars and Venus couldn't count as colonies. > > The problem was that we wanted 10 major *leases*, and only had 9. > > 1-Atlast: > 2-Calafia: > 3-Deemi: > 4-Dezni: > 5-Earth: > 6-Garth: > 7-Horst: > 8-Omnivarium: > 9-NuDawn (Mudaun in Gal-7): > Earth is not a lease, Earth is homeworld. > By adding desolate worlds and arbitarilly declaring them to be the Canaan > Colonies we fail to solve the problem of producing a major lease. We add > so many colonies it is hard to reconcile the fan-fic with the source. > But it's quite clear that there must be a Terragens outpost in Alpha Centauri: it's the closest star, the target of one of the two first extra-solar expeditions, and where Terra found that and ET Civilization had existed in the past. > Worse, we may tread on DB's toes if he wanted (as I believe) the Canaan > Colonies to consist of some sub-set of the 9 cannonical leashold worlds. > Ok, maybe we can go back to context. Which colonies are _not_ part of the Canaan Colonies? (a) Calafia, Omnivarium, Hermes, and Atlast are not, because they are mentioned in the same context as the Canaan Colonies in SR, Ch7 (b) Calafia (again) and Horst are not, because they are mentioned in the same context as Canaan [as a single word] in HR, Part3, Harry (c) Garth is not, because Garth is isolated So we end up with Deemi, Dezni and NuDawn. Interesting: I found a reference to Dezni: the Buyur imported the wuankworm from Dezni to Jijo! [BR, during Lark & Ling first trip, when the danik robot finds and fights with Reti's bird-robot] If we can safely exclude NuDawn and Dezni from being among the Canaan Colonies, then Deemi _can't_ be one of them, because one world does not a collection of worlds make O:-) I $hould have been a lawyer instead of a spaceship pilot :-/ Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
