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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; "><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">>I don't recall Typhon himself expressing any views on robots.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">Pas is very specifically the god, patron and 'father' of all atomic-powered people. </pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">Remember the theophany when Hammerstone is sacrificed. Pas appears in response to the sacrifice of a chem whereas other deities only seem to appear when animals (or people) are sacrificed. he then refers to Hammerstone as "my brave soldier".</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">I think that Pas does consider chems to be real people. Silk certainly does.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">As far as Silk's parents are concerned, we know the identity of his foster parents, Calde Tussah and his friend. </pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">There are two possible reasons why Horn and Nettle don't state the identity of Silk's two biological parents. Either they don't know their identity or it should be obvious based upon the text.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">I'll try to look for more quotes and clues this weekend.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">As far as the timing of Pas's plan and the birth of Silk, its quite possible that the Plan was an extended process of scouting and colonizing that was intended to take decades. Silk was intended to lead the city of Viron on an exodus which may have been scheduled to coincide with Silk's adulthood.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; ">There could easily have been other 'Silks' for other cities, with original exoduses scheduled at different times.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre></span> </body>
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