Finished another read of Sundiver.
Ok, By process of elimination, the three _legal_ colony worlds leased at time
of Sundiver: are:
Atlast Horst Omnivarium
(..with Nudawn population having been reduced to zero.)
So I can't have the story based on Adirondak _after_ Sundiver. It would have
to be before. This may be a problem, or this may be a solution.
The next two leased planets to be aquired have to be:
Deemi Calafia
(It may have been a secret package deal. Can't get one without also taking
the other.)
Deemi has the alien prison, assumed to have been already established before
Earth took over the lease.
So now I have only two choices:
Adirondak pre Sundiver, pre leased Horst
--GIM survey to ascertain that no ecological damage was done by
Earth's only two landings.
Calafia post Sundiver
---GIM sponsored "open house" survey.
To let Earth figure out if the planet is worth also taking the
problem planet Deemi.
There's already a convienient plot point in using Calafia.
The Synthian strands the party in order to try to find the Progenitor
cache that was left on the terrestrial planet that had exploded.
I prefer post Sundiver.
That way I can include little snipits about why Cynthian was changed to
Synthian, (the Synthians themselves asked for the change), and why the one galaxy
changed into the Civilization of the Five Galaxies. (We were on probation. It
was on a need to know basis. Galactic Civilization was afraid of having humans
spread out like the plague. Of course it didn't work. The Tabernacle left one
year before the Sundiver incident.)
So, how does using Califia stand with everyone else? Jacob and Helene might
be in the main survey party, but I'm only writing about the small branch
exploration that goes to the other side of the planet.
Even if the lease wasn't signed until -220, the first visit to the planet
could have been made
in -239 or -238, just after the Sundiver incident.
Contact was in -280. If Earth had been rationing out the amount of old
entertainment tapes the Tytlal could get at any one time, I figure 40 years should
be just stretching the limit.
William Taylor
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The Attitude of Respectful Waiting has the hands folded in front.
Don't look too closely if you have three Tytlal in this pose.
Usually the fingers of one hand are secretly doing Rock, Paper or Scissors.
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