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34 lines
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..: Pizo :..
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Second Transmission
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Hi again? It's difficult for me to use ancestor's
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language. We spell it Ansesta, by the way, just a trivial
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bit of data from Pizo.
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So Pizo, what does it mean? Chiefly two things: a) The na-
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me of the original Ansesta's ship, and b) the name of planet
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it colonized, long, long ago.
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And there's also c) our airship, which we also named Pizo.
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Retrospectively that wasn't such a good name for our airship
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but, I don't know, I guess we were all feeling patriotic.
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Let me tell you about Pizo, the planet, because that's
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probably more relevant to you. The Starship Pizo must be in
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your records, perhaps hidden in some Gemini or Gopher server
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somewhere. By the way we are still using Gemini, many have
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tried to improve on it, but nobody could agree on how. It
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remains useful, though. But I digress.
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So, our planet, Pizo. Well, tis like Earth in many ways...
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I'm sending the techinal data on a separate text file, for
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whatever is worth. Differences? Well, there are just two
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main continents, both around the size of Africa in your an-
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cient Earth, but we call them Nor and Sur, which are our
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words for 'North' and 'South'. Guess why.
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Pizo compensates for the lack of large land masses with
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thousands of islands, so many that most remain unnamed.
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There aren't so many of us Pizoans(?)...
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And that's the reason for our job. We are kind of a family
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and friends and we trade and carry the odd passenger among
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the islands. Small loads only, but that's enough form many
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of the small isles.
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I'm interrupting here for the pilot is nagging me again.
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