This story is not only about Trevelyan Micah and the other individuals listed on its opening page. (See the above link.) It is also:
"The case of the slain world named Good Luck..." (p. 211)
- which we are told:
"...is typical." (ibid.)
So a world is slain? Someone commits global genocide? And this is typical? Well, no. A planetary population has died from natural causes, has been killed by the radiation from a supernova. (In the Technic History, another planetary population is saved from such a fate.) But the dead must be respected. The physical remains of their civilization must be studied. So the depopulated planet must not be immediately exploited for commercial gain. That is what the young generations so often do not understand.
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Kaor, Paul!
I have sympathy for both sides of this conflict between Trevelyan and Murdoch. The latter could have tried bargaining for a patent to settle parts of Good Luck after the scholars and archeologists had studied them. Yes, Murdoch would have to wait a long time to make use of Good Luck, but better than nothing.
Ad astra! Sean
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