From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
Subject: (urth) The wounded sun
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:45:06 -0600

Dan'l quoted and wrote:
>> The wounding of Urth's sun, whether directly by Typhon's
>> actions or as retribution for them, had no galaxy-wide ripple
>> effect.
>
>This puzzles me. I have wondered for some time just why many
>of the participants on this list assume that the wounding of
>the Old Sun took place during the reign of Typhon. In reading
>the Typhon-era passages of UotNS, I received the distinct
>impression that Typhon reigned under a wounded Old Sun. Can
>anyone give some specifics?

You have to go back to SWORD for the answer (chapter XXV). Typhon speaking:

"It was a period of great confusion as well. My astronomers had told me that
this sun's activity would decay slowly. Far too slowly, in fact, for the
change to be noticeable in a human lifetime. They were wrong. The heat of
the world declined by nearly two parts in a thousand over a few years, then
stabilized. Crops failed, and there were famines and riots. I should have
left then."

-Roy


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