From: "cilluff1@optonline.net" 
Subject: RE: (urth) The wounded sun
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:52:33 -0500

Good eye, Roy!  That's exactly the passage that I (and I'm sure Dan'l) wer=
e
recollecting!

Original Message:
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From: Roy C=2E Lackey rclackey@stic=2Enet
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:45:06 -0600
To: urth@urth=2Enet
Subject: (urth) The wounded sun


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=2E
>
>This puzzles me=2E 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=2E In reading
>the Typhon-era passages of UotNS, I received the distinct
>impression that Typhon reigned under a wounded Old Sun=2E Can
>anyone give some specifics?

You have to go back to SWORD for the answer (chapter XXV)=2E Typhon speaki=
ng:

"It was a period of great confusion as well=2E My astronomers had told me =
that
this sun's activity would decay slowly=2E Far too slowly, in fact, for the=

change to be noticeable in a human lifetime=2E They were wrong=2E The heat=
 of
the world declined by nearly two parts in a thousand over a few years, the=
n
stabilized=2E Crops failed, and there were famines and riots=2E I should h=
ave
left then=2E"

-Roy


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