In a message dated 3/16/2004 3:58:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >Or is Adirondak terrestrial but poisonous? > > Or even worse off that Horst. Or they DID start a colonies on both > Adirondak > and Horst but dropped Adirondak in negotiations with the GIM. Or ... > > It doesn't really matter, there's no colony on Adirondak. A good rule of > thumb in storytelling is to avoid explaining something unless you have to. > I now think the best place to put the story would be on Adirondak. Say the GIM wanted a small survey to see if there was any damage done to the ecology by Earthclan's attempt to colonize it. This way I can have the story set as early as I want to after contact. (When the Tytlal are still discovering Earth's old programing.) All I need for the story's setting is an uninhabited planet, a few dropped cubes such as the one pictured at the end of Brightness Reef, with a smaller survey party traveling to one of these cubes. The Synthian then traps the rest of the party in the cube and bolts out for reasons unknown. It'd work. All this work for an old sight gag.... William Taylor _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
