I missed something. As a denizen of the Atomic Age, I should immediately have recognized that the effects of the explosion on human organisms demonstrated that the rocket that killed Vanna had carried a nuclear warhead. This is explicitly stated in the following section 3. Many such rockets were fired and many Mong regiments destroyed. Iern and Ronica recognize the name of Vanna's regiment in the list. After reading the Maurai History thus far, we are shocked that the taboo has at last been broken. At least, I am. Mikli Karst, the self-proclaimed proud instigator of this first nuclear attack in many centuries, has consolidated his position as the villain of the novel.
Iern, a member of the leading Clan of the Domain and now an astronaut for Orion, has the ability both to sabotage the project and to alert the Maurai to its location. Everything comes together. Whatever else happens now, the world will change.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I am not shocked, because it was inevitable that SOMEBODY, somewhere, would eventually break the taboo on nuclear weapons. Especially in times where the world became increasingly resentful of Maurai blocking of technological changes and advances.
It would have been better for the Maurai if they had taken the lead in the developing of nuclear technology. That way they would have at least remained a major player in world affairs.
Ad astra! Sean
Dead is dead.
The 100,000 people who died in Tokyo on 10th March, 1945 were just as dead as the 100,000 people killed in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 -- and more numerous than the ones who died in Nagasaki on the 9th.
The fact that the ones in Tokyo were killed in a firestorm caused by "conventional" incendiary bombs makes no difference as far as I can see.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I have to agree, dead is dead. No real DIFFERENCE.
Ad astra! Sean
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