Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: Fate of the Protectors of Home Message-ID: <494@baylor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 10:55:24 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.494 Posted: Wed Aug 21 10:55:24 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:38:33 EDT References: <3345@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 38 > 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 UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076