Actually I believe it was mentioned, or apparent from context.. I seem
to remember Mamelta maybe telling Silk about the landers coming and
going (Why don't I just get a second copy of them all here for my
office?!) . It is a hollowed out asteroid, so it would seem almost
senseless to bring it down, fill it up and launch something like a
small moon into orbit. The mind boggles alone on the energy required to
get something of that size to 7miles/sec (escape velocity)<br>
<br>
And the Wall around Nessus? Well- it is probably just a wall (though a
feat of engineering that one could live their whole life in). Wolfe
hides things in things, very, very true, but sometimes I think too much
is read into things that just are themselves.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">pthwndxrclzp</b> <<a href="mailto:aquastor@gmail.com">aquastor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">I always assumed the Whorl was constructed
entirely in orbit around Urth. Though I realize now this assumption was
not based on anything actually stated in the books.</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10b05775d2c7019a_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
mournings glory</b> <<a href="mailto:mourningsglory@hotmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mourningsglory@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I believe the Quasar could easily contain the Citadel in one of its
smaller bays, but now that you mention it once wondered if the Wall
around Nessus might not have been an ancient spaceship cradle --
perhaps built to hold the early stages of Typhon's Whorl?
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