What were the Keepers up to on Planet Harappa?
Yesterday we discussed the fact that the Keepers disappeared from history in one moment, their entire compound destroyed in the Harvest Day Tsunami. Mary Carmini is the only influential Salusian to have survived. Certainly some of their craftspeople survived but their leadership vanished.
Before the Arrival, Salus was involved in a program to increase their influence in all planetary issues. Caelum the city of the Founder had not lost its preeminence and Salus wished to change that. There were rumors that Salus was purposely fouling the water system of Caelum.
Caelum had made diplomatic overtures requesting Salus quit their water program. Salus did not respond. At least not until they sent an army to Caelum. I was at the Battle of Caelum. History tells us that that was when we first saw the human spaceship as it used the upper atmosphere to slow down. Doing so left a large orange streak in the sky that all Harappans saw. Most Harappans did not know what they were seeing at the time. They did not know they were seeing the end of their world.
That is what history remembers from the Battle of Caelum but I know the whole story, the real story.
Tomorrow: the Battle of Caelum
Never Mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 87
Earth Year 2479
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