# second thoughts *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 31 May 1998* > 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. --- ### m.driussi *31 May 1998, 22:46* Robert, Wait a second--just because Mrs. B's mom =wants= to go doesn't mean that she wasn't a prisoner. A prisoner could be chosing between a cell and a homestead on the frontier. But still, why would there be that baby restriction? Maybe just that the authorities deemed it too dangerous for babies to travel that way. So the warship clears out the enemy strongpoints and the colony ship delivers a load of undesirables to act as pioneers--win/win! (Meanwhile, if the ships take twenty years to get to the target, how goes the war on Earth or in the Solar System? Maybe the war on Sainte Anne/Sainte Croix is more like Pearl Harbor [isolated surprise attack] than all of World War Two [a huge war between Great Powers]? The better model would probably be islands in the Carribbean during the Pirate age.) =mantis= ---