Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!SRA From: SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: protector psychology Message-ID: <3227@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 11:30:02 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3227 Posted: Sun Aug 11 11:30:02 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 04:00:41 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 29 From: Rob AusteinFrom: rlk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Rob Austein's response doesn't work, because Brennan didn't worry about his bloodline either and he got the original tree-of-life. Of course he worried about his own bloodline. *All* of his decendents (except Truesdale) were in Sol system. That's why he didn't even tell the UN and the Belt what was going on. Even Truesdale's kid was in Sol system. And Brennan knew damned well how old Truesdale was, so he knew that Truesdale would make it to Protector ok. Of course, *after* Truesdale became a Protector he was at risk, but that's what Protectors are for, yes? And there can't be an instinct/drive in the original Tree-Of-Life against letting your decendants become Protectors, for obvious reasons. Even so, Brennan was worried sick about Truesdale, if you remember -- he actually made some irrational decisions, he was so upset, and it cost him his life. PS Why didn't the library on Pak have any reference to the ringworld being built? It did have the reference to the expedition to Earth, which was much smaller. Now, I ask you, if you were a Protector paranoid to build something like the ringworld, would you be silly enough to leave traces to be found by the first family that decides it wants a *lot* of elbow room? --Rob -------