Electric Forest (22 page)

For the roll-call
of
honor, I
cite Irlin
Vander Lis and J Doramel Schur, Nada Millas and Val Valary.
Paul Hovak,

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who had one of the toughest assignments, to play a major figure and at the same moment to coordinate the
team from the wings. Finally, my husband, Claudio Loro, without whom I believe both this project, and I myself, would have foundered utterly.

To these, and to all the others who ran this demanding and merciless course, my gratitude and my thanks.

Lastly. Claudio's "dying" tirade against the misuse of C.T. was by way of a cadenza on his part. Though in
reference it hits hardest in the actual world beyond the experiment at the Outer Planetary networks,
none of us on Antipholus are likely to forget it.

Perhaps, as a basis for a Charter of Ethics, it is not foolish to remember the make-believe death of a

make-believe character in an illusory landscape the inventor who destroyed his invention after foreseeing
its own ability to destroy. In our place, we can hardly go backward, but neither should we ignore the
nakedness of humanity before the huge-wheeled vehicle of progress. We have too much to give, and far too much to learn, to throw ourselves away.

Christophine del Jan Loro.

For their work on the Indigo Live Experiment, the entire team of the Antipholus Program were awarded the
E/ Commendation De Luxe. Claudio Loro and Christophine del Jan Loro were each awarded the Stella
D'Or.

Indigo has since been popularly colonized, and is now a Class Four planet of the Earth Conclave Federation.
Regarding the Outer Worlds, vigilance is strictly maintained.