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To: GovNom[email protected]
From: GovAct[email protected]
Subj: Re: Na the colony
Dear Governor-Noin,
I am impressed with the alacrity hich ColMin acted on your petition for ansible bandwidth to be made available for unrestricted access to the nets by colonists, at the discretion of the governors
My first thought was to inforovernor-in-transit The nain is revered here After our own victory, we studied your battles and debated about just which superlative was ree of military brilliance But I have also seen the reports of the court martial of Col Graff and Aded and I don't want to provide an incentive for the colonists, when they finally have the leisure for connecting to the home of humanity, to brood about whether you are a savior or a sociopath Not that any of the soldiers and pilots ahtest doubt that you are the for the fifty years of your voyage who did not fight under your command
I confess to having had to reread The Te your list of names Sycorax indeed! And yet, obscure as the naly appropriate for our situation The mother of Caliban, the witch who ic--Sycorax would then be the appropriate naone, leaving behind so many artifactsand traps
Our xb--a reratitude for his having saved our lives--says that the fore froarded as so expendable that there was no attempt to control or prevent the disease The waste of life! Fortunately, Sel has found that the dustwor on a certain species of plant He is working on aout that entire plant species Ecocide, he calls it--a uilt Yet the alternative is to keep injecting ourselves forever, or to genetically alter all the children born to us in this world so our blood is poisonous to the dustworms
In short, Sel IS Prospero The hive queen was Sycorax The forh every fee is venerated here We're about to have a lottery for , lest I be accused of ot one of them No one likes this unro scarce reproductive resources and Sel persuaded a o We have no tis, or rejection
I talk to you because I can't talk to anyone here, not even Sel He has burdens enough withoutany of mine onto his back
By the way, the captain of your ship keeps writing to overnance of Colony I, without reference to you I thought you should be aware of this so you can take appropriate steps to avoid having to deal with a would-be regent when you arrive He strikesthe kind of officer I call a "man of peace"--a bureaucrat who thrives in the military only when there is no war, because his true enen he hates worst: a man of war Look behind you; that's where the man of peace always tries to stay, dirk in hand
--Vitaly Denisovitch
To: GovAct[email protected]
From: GovNom[email protected]
Subj: Re: I have the name