Kyra in Kestrel leaves L-5:
"Star hordes gleamed. The Milky Way cataracted hoar across crystal black. In a corner of the viewfield before her Kyra saw the Magellanic Clouds." (p. 346)
I think that Kyra flies to a confrontation with the reprogrammed Guthrie but that will have to wait until tomorrow evening. Tomorrow, we will revisit Lichfield. (Scroll down.) Good night.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I have sometimes wondered what might have happened if Poul Anderson had written a story in which a colonizing expedition left the Terran Empire to found a colony in one of the Magellanic Clouds. Perhaps headed by an Imperial prince of the Argolid or Wang dynasties. The idea being the Empire not keeping all its eggs in one basket as Merseia was beginning its terrifying rise to being a RACIALLY supremacist rival of Terra and its allies. The Magellanic Clouds should have been a safely long distance from Merseia.
Technically, I would imagine such a colony to be formally part of the Empire. But, considering its sheer distance from Terra, this could only have been temporarily, for legal reasons. My fancy was that this colony was governed for either five or ten standard years under the provisions set by an Imperial charter, which then stated the colony would have to choose a permanent form of gov't and be declared independent of the Empire.
This was just a fancy of mine, because I don't think we ever see either of the Magellanic Clouds in "person" in the works of Anderson.
Sean
Sean,
Whereas James Blish's Okies colonize the Greater Magellanic.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I had that in the back of my mind! And did Nicholas van Rijn go to one of the Magellanic Clouds during his last great journey of exploration in his old age?
Sean
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