<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18928">
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=thalassocrat08@gmail.com
href="mailto:thalassocrat08@gmail.com">Mr Thalassocrat</A> </DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Gerry Quinn <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:gerryq@indigo.ie">gerryq@indigo.ie</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex"
class=gmail_quote>
<DIV bgcolor="#ffffff">
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
<DIV> </DIV>I remain 'loyal to the ship' on this one. One can
certainly question whether the negation of a black hole that was
deliberately put into the sun counts as a net benefit - but can we
really defend the moribund future of Master Ash compared
to the new life of Ushas, though indeed this new
life must be born in cataclysm?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>But on my side of the argument I have Ash's words about the majority of
the population having been evacuated before the ice death, in his future.
Whatever the benefits of Ushas, why did almost everybody have to die in Sev's
time line? And probably more to the point: why didn't Sev at least try to make
this happen - knowing as he did that it was
possible?</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Do we know how many died, and what arrrangements
were made by the various authorities on Urth to evacuate people to higher
ground?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sev wasn't on Urth at the time - he only arrived
back simultaneously with the flood; maybe indeed there was some reason this was
necessary. Making preparations for the Commonwealth would have been down
to Valeria, Inire et al.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT
size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>