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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] So where's Miranda then? 8) I just remembered a similar-yet-really-wildly-different situation from a book: [i]Against a Dark Background[/i] by Iain M. Banks. It's set in a star system called Thrial, which is a rogue star floating in intergalactic space, with "a million light years" in any direction. In the book, just about every planet has been terraformed (or golterformed, since that's the home planet of the human or humanlike species which evolved there); I forget how many planets there were but it seemed quite a few, some of which were actually moons. So, literary precedent of a sort. Because the star is isolated, the inhabitatnts of the system have endured thousands of years of boom and bust, with no way to expand or break out of the cycle they're condemned to. . . A bit like the Moties in Niven & Pournelle's [i]The Mote in God's Eye[/i]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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