TWTB Chapter 10 -- Clarification of the 2nd Law

[frobisherw]

The passage where Kosala and the Greenpeace Director are discussing the proposal to try and exclude nature preserves from the war always makes me choke up when I read it. Both the effort to do it -- to preserve what, once lost, is lost forever (although new and different things will still occur), and Kosala's concerned response that it would create borders where there were not borders before. It isn't exactly true -- the Reservations have existed, and the (completely unmentioned, but presumably existing) areas still damaged by the Church War -- but it's the feared loss of the ideal of a borderless world that makes me choke up.

Such a well written thing. Your comments or other thoughts very welcomed.

Other Hive names

[frobisherw]

There's a list of other previously existing Hives mentioned in TWTB Chapter 10, that I thought worth quoting here:

 

the Humanists were born from the Olympians and One Big Party, the Cousins absorbed Rainbow Bridge and Schools Without Borders, Europe swallowed Volemonde and IBN

 

 

I wonder what they might have referred to. The Olympians and One Big Party have been mentioned elsewhere, but I don't think the others were.

(edit: TWTB Chapter 2, mentions another Hive, "Auxilio" which merged with Gordian sometime around 2330. (page 23))