The Time Patrol has an exile planet somewhere.
Van Rijn finds a zoo ship that reproduces planetary environments.
A Ringworld Ocean has islands that reproduce Earth, Mars, Kzin etc, complete with inhabitants.
In "Cathouse," a kzinti crew and their human prisoner find a planet where circular surface areas reproduce Earth, Kzin and other planets, either a zoo or a prison.
Whereas Anderson's and Pournelle's & Stirling's interlinked MKW trilogies focus on Wunderland during and after the First Man-Kzin War, Ing's first story is set in a completely different volume of space on the eve of the Fourth War. We have entered an entirely different Known Space sub-sub-series.
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Kaor, Paul!
I have sometimes wished we had been given a glimpse of the Time Patrol's exile planet and how it was run. My guess is that time criminals were sent to different periods on the exile planet. Because you don't want too many dangerous and extremely intelligent exiles meeting and possibly teaming up against the Patrol.
And I remember Dean Ing's "Cathouse" very favorably!
Ad astra! Sean
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