Jeff Zeitlin writes:
[A lot of good arguments about how the Regency and the Zhodani and
all the other spinward nations couldn't avoid being infected by the
virus.]
I agree completely. But that's not a permissible answer. The problem
becomes to explain how the spinward nations avoided getting infected.
I combine that with the fact that they haven't repopulated the
rest of Charted Space in the 70 years since the Crash and conclude
that they _didn't_ avoid getting infected. But they avoided getting
destroyed by it. They managed to contain the infections and minimize
the effects. And when I say minimize that means that they have been
running a Red Queen's Race for the last 70 years and _still_ haven't
defeated the virus. Only contained it.
Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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