(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[thalassocrat at nym.hush.com]

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:02:38 +1000 "Roy C. Lackey" 
<rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
>
>Looking at that quote again just now, it occurs to me that it 
>offers support
>to my earlier speculation. If the white fountain had actually been 

>created
>*in* the heart of the old sun, rather than travelling for 
>millennia from
>some unspecified place *to* the sun, it would not have passed near 

>Urth to
>get there. If its mass had never come nearer Urth than the sun, 
>would Urth
>have been spared the violent upheavals that occasioned its 
>destruction?

As it turned out in UOTNS, I don't think there were any violent 
upheavals? Baldanders speaks of gravity waves which he can detect, 
and which may be enough to tinkle the bells in Valeria's audience 
hall, but that seems to be about it.