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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re: Fate of the Protectors of Home
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 10:55:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 10:55:24 1985
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> From: Cate3.SV@Xerox.ARPA
> 
>      As I remember the story, (and this may be faulty) the Home
> Protectors were going off to fight the Pak, at the speed of light.  At

...at nearly the speed of light...

> that time the Puppeteer's had not sold the secret of going faster than
> the speed of light yet.  So the Home Protectors spent two hundred years
> traveling to fight the Pak, hopefully beat the Pak, and then another two

...slightly less than 200 years because the Pak were cming towards them
as well...

> hundred years to come back.  This would explain the lack of interaction
> between the Home Protectors and the human race.

They would have come back before Ringworld. I don't have all the dates here,
but when Truesdale left Home there hadn't been any contact with the Kzin.
The man-kzin wars took easily a couple hundred years (thanks to time dilation),
before the Puppeteers sold the Hyperdrive to Homo Sap... quite a while later
Bey Schaeffer was born (there were multiple centenarians who had been in the
wars)...  Bey Schaeffer had been around
for a while when Louis Wu was born (he was his foster-father, see "Borderlands
of Sol"), and Louis was 200 years old at the time of Ringworld. This comes
to well over 400 years after Protector.

>      Maybe the next story will be about how thousands of Home Protectors
> deal with the human race?
>      
>      Henry III

Known Space was pretty big by this time. Maybe the next story will be what
happens when the results of the pak/human fight are discovered?
-- 
	Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva
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