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