message 0013

• Tully's mission - Human/Compact contact

>Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 10:33:07 -0700
>From: seth@cie.uoregon.edu (Seth Scott)
>Subject:  C. J. Cherryh List


Hello, y'all; yep, still here :)

I haven't commented much because I've not read any of the _Union_ books; I triedto read _Downbelow Station_, but couldn't get through it at the time...  I think
that it started too slowly for my then-limited patience.  Kkkkkt.

I have read the _Chanur_ books, _Hestia_ (bleah!), and the first three chapters
of _Downbelow Station_; that leaves me with little basis for comment, I'm afraid-- though I plan to do some more reading, when I get the time.  I guess that
I do have a question, though, that ties in to the current discussion:

Tully names himself an 'Earth-man,' and I do remember that there were 'three
human Compacts,' which would be Earth, the Belt, and the farther colonies, yes? So, Tully's original ship and mission was (pick one)

	a)  exploration
	b)  prospecting
	c)  a search for allies

?

I understand that once Tully told Earth about the Compact, Earth wanted help
in defending its own space from the knnnn (and kif?), but beyond that the 
politics escape me.  Would someone with a more integrated knowledge of human
space please speculate?

				Thanks, and sorry I've been so quiet;	
		I've got two majors, and one year!

					Seth E. Scott