Calde of the Long Sun

John Watkins · 16 Jan 2009, 03:04 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:04:45 -0500
Subject: (urth) Calde of the Long Sun
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The Plan gets subverted on several occasions, and there are any number
of actors rhat might want to avoid a physical Pas.



On 1/15/09, Paul B <pb.stuff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Knowing Typhon (booby-trapped giant golden ring on a giant mountain carved
> in his likeness) he'd keep a close watch on the one single embryo his
> digital facsimile was intended to inhabit someday, placing it under tighter
> security than most of the stuff in Mainframe.  Typhon seems like a pretty
> vain guy in BotNS.  Those who would suggest that Silk was his intended body
> should figure out a way to account for how this embryo, likely the most
> treasured object on the Whorl, fell into the grubby hands of the cargo.
>
> Conversely, the embryos in the landers also seem to possess special powers
> (Mucor, Pig, Mora) at least in some cases, but aren't particularly well
> guarded.
>
> As for the existence of other physical Silks, that seems implausible given
> the details of Horn's search for one in Short Sun.
>
> Paul
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, David Stockhoff
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> I don't have a firm opinion on this, but I agree that the below is a very
>> Typhon-like (assuming Pas is Typhon) purpose. Of course, there could have
>> been many Silks to serve several purposes, and I assume there were indeed
>> many Silks (or twins of Silk if not exact clones).
>>
>> And I'll bet someone here can point to a few of them!
>>
>>
>

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