Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!taw From: taw@s1-c.arpa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Planetary maps on the Ringworld Message-ID: <3491@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 14:40:03 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3491 Posted: Fri Aug 30 14:40:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 09:00:10 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 From: Tom Wadlow Given that the Pak Protectors built the Ringworld, and that there are maps of Earth, Mars, Down, Kzin, etc. in one of the large (boy is *that* an understatement) oceans, one might also suspect that there would be a "map" of the Pak homeworld there. This would be reasonably conclusive proof that it was indeed the Pak that built the Ringworld, as the other maps were of planets in the immediate neighborhood of the Ringworld, but the Pak homeworld was much closer to the galactic core, and therefore unlikely to be visited by the STL ramships. Unless that was where those ships originally came from. I recall (but don't have my copy of Ringworld Engineers handy to check) that one of the maps was listed as "Unknown". Perhaps that is the map of Pak. I wonder what might be there. Tom Wadlow (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) MILNET: UUCP: ..!ucbvax!dual!mordor!taw ..!decvax!decwrl!mordor!taw