For the most part, the zone changes are very slow: 700 meters per second in the case of the long-term secular shrinkage. Yet these changes together with orbital motion affect billions of lives each year. Just as the glaciers and droughts of a pretechnical world must affect a people,
mbt kisumu sandal, so must we accept these long-term changes. Storms and surges are obvious tragedies, near-instant death for some civilizations. Yet these are as far beyond our control as the slower movements. Over the last few weeks, some newsgroups have been full of tales of war and battle fleets, of billions dying in the clash of species. To all such -- and those living more peaceably around them -- we say: Look out on the universe. It does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is. Crypto: 0 As received by: ?lvira shipboard ad hoc Language path: Arbwyth->Trade24->Cherguelen->Triskweline, SjK units From: Twirlip of the Mists [Who knows what this is, though probably not a propaganda voice. Very sparse priors.] Subject: The cause of the recent Great Surge Distribution: Threat of the Blight, Great Secrets of Creation, Zonometric Interest Group Date: 66.47 days since Fall of Sjandra Kei Key phrases: Zone Instability and the Blight, Hexapodia as the key insightText of message: Apologies if I am repeating obvious conclusions. My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive, and I miss many important postings. The Great Surge now in progress appears by all accounts to be an event of cosmic scope and rarity. Furthermore, the other posters put its epicenter less than 6,000 light-years from recent warfare related to the Blight. Can this be mere coincidence? As has long been theorized [citations from various sources, three known to ?lvira; the theories cited are of long standing and nondisprovable] the Zones themselves may be an artifact, perhaps created by something beyond Transcendence for the protection of lesser forms, or [hypothetical] sentient gas clouds in galactic cores. Now for the first time in Net history we have a Transcendent form,
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mbt bomoa, that can effectively dominate the Beyond. Many on the Net [cites Hanse and Sandor at the Zoo] believe that it is searching for an artifact near the Bottom. Is it no wonder that this could upset the Natural Balance and provoke the recent Event? Please write to me and tell me what you think. I don't get much mail. Crypto: 0 As received by: ?lvira shipboard ad hoc Language path: Baeloresk->Triskweline, SjK units From: Alliance for the Defense [Claimed union of five empires below Straumli Realm. No references prior to the Fall of the Straumli Realm. Numerous counter claims (including from Out of Band II) that this Alliance is a front for the old Aprahant Hegemony. Cf, Butterfly Terror.] Subject: Courageous Mission Accomplished Distribution: Threat of the Blight,
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mbt tembea women, Homo Sapiens Interest Group Date: 67.07 days since Fall of Sjandra Kei Key phrases: Action,
tembea mink mbt, not talkText of message: Subsequent to our action against the human nest at [Sjandra Kei] a part of our fleet pursued human and other Blight-controlled forces toward the Bottom of the Beyond. Evidently, the Perversion hoped to protect these forces by putting them in an environment too dangerous to challenge. That thinking did not count on the courage of Alliance commanders and crews. We can now report the substantial destruction of those escaping forces.