# Sun Cycle questions *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Dec 2007* > 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. --- ### Roy C. Lackey *17 Dec 2007, 21:54* Michael Dale wrote: [snip] >> How long between Typhon's rule and the coming of the New Sun? The Whorl >> has lasted for 300 years, but Marble impies at one point that it could have >> been 3,000 (saying that she always is misplacing a digit). However the >> Soldiers reimply that the World is designed to last 300 years and that is is >> after its design age.<< The most accepted figure for the time period between Typhon and Severian is about 1,000 years. The _Whorl_ had been in flight for 300+ years (another 30 or 40 so, but I forget the correct number). >> However I still say that Blue and Green are in a different system and are >> not Earth and Lune (or Venus).<< That is the prevailing wisdom, and in an interview with Jim Jordan (aka Nutria) Wolfe appears to say as much. >> It would be neat if whatever technology that created the powersource for >> creating and running the Whorl is what actually caused the Black hole in the >> sun. I always thought that Typhon was taking energy is large amounts from >> the Sun as a power source.<< I made such a proposal myself, four years ago. http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0309/4071.txt.shtml >> On a side note: >> A question I have always wondered is why Typhon didn't equip the Whorl is >> FTL (Faster than Light) technology.<< Sidestepping the question of human FTL ships in Briah, but relevant in this context. It is generally accepted that the _Whorl_ was traveling at some percentage of light speed, such that, with deceleration, the ship took about 300 years, ship time, to reach the Blue-Green system. Then a few decades passed. While the ship was traveling at relativistic speed, about a thousand years went by on Urth. That allowed Silkhorn, by way of astral travel to Urth, to meet young Severian. -Roy ---