Rescuing livestock

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IIRC, the bottle was close to 5000 years old... (Ahzanti High Lightening)

Michael Brown

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From: <devans@uneb.edu>
> However, I think the idea of a scenerio wasn't too far astray.
wargaming
> memories not withstanding, I have some doubts that regular livestock
Ok,
> might be.

> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:

> Old North Australia was the planet that provided the galaxy's only
As I can imagine, this place must have been only *slightly* less depressing
than your average Spoo ranch.

On Wed, 23 May 2001 12:35:20 -0400 "laserlight@quixnet.net"
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> Not that KV think of Hu'Man as livestock--KV must be vegetarians.

Wasn't there a (bloodthirsty to carnivores/omnivores) vegetarian race In
Traveller - some kind of Centaur type race?  IIRC from stories of one
campaign (I was not there) the 'vegetarians' were pretty much interested in
exterminating the "carnivores" (and omnivores were pretty much "Unclean trash
eating carnivores") although not particularly openly or actively...

From: "Mike Stanczyk" <stanczyk@pcisys.net>

> > As you can imagine, the Norstrillian defences were rather good.

Quote from http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/stories.htm#nor

The place? That's Old North Australia. What other place could it be? Where
else do farmers pay ten million credits for a handkerchief, five for a bottle
of beer? Where else do people lead peaceful lives, untouched by
militarism, on a world which is booby-trapped with death and things
worse
than death. Old North Australia has stroon-the santaclara drug-and more
than a thousand other planets clamor for it. But you can get stroon only from
Norstrilia-that's what they call it, for short-because it is a virus
that grows on enormous, gigantic misshapen sheep. The sheep were taken from
Earth to start a pastoral system; they ended up as the greatest of imaginable
treasures. The simple farmers became simple billionaires, but they kept