# Of urthmen and abos *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Apr 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Ori Kowarsky *30 Apr 1999, 00:15* Further to my Grand Unified Severain Theory that's captured the hearts and minds of this list (please, no autographs) it has struck me that if the Hieros are part abo, or if their morphing ability is the result of Number Five's splicing of human and abo DNA, then the extermination of Urth's indiginous population and its replacement with abo-spliced human stock would in fact count as their revenge upon the humanity that created them, given the extermination of the abos by human colonists so long ago. Ori ---