Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
> Is this what was intended - in the passage of time this became
> only routine? Was the line played the way you intended?
> - Was the incident 500 years earlier the "Great Burn" Theo is
> helping Earth recover from? Could one speculate that the "Great
> Burn" affected Earth terribly, but not all the colonies?
> interstellar community?)

Yes, it was mainly Earth that bore the burden of the great Burn,
and yes, that was the one Garibaldi got into....

jms

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Some probably would offer to help...but if technology is now
suspect, some might not want that help...other colonies might be of the
"screw 'em, they got what they deserved" perspective...often politics
gets in the way of charity.

jms