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an organization of 27 planets on which human beings live. The primaries of
some of the 27 can be seen from here on Tyss. Ask your master or your
lector to go outside with you some night soon and point out to you those
which are visible.
Those 27 are not all of the worlds on which people are known to live in our
region of the galaxy. They are simply most of those which have
spaceships, and with spaceships, the Confederation worlds can usually
control the others and cause them to do certain things that they want
them to do. Our own world of Tyss is not one of the 27, of course, and we
do not have spaceships. We have the T'sel, and that which grows out of it.
That is why the Confederation does not have power over us, although it is
all right for them to think they do.
The story of the Confederation of Worlds is quite interesting, and only on
Tyss is it known. The first part of it is also the story of how we came to
live on Tyss. Very long ago, many thousands of our years ago, people
came to this region of space from another region very far away. They
came across space in eight very large ships, at a speed much swifter than
light, and the distance was so great that it took years to cross it. If you
decide to follow The Way of Wisdom and Knowledge, or possibly if you do
not, you will be able to visit that time and see that long journey for yourself.
They left their homes to escape a great war. The people who began that
war, and who commanded it, were willing to kill to force their own wishes
on others. They were willing to kill great numbers of people for that,
although few of those killed had chosen for themselves the Way of War.
It was not like any war ever fought in this region, for they used weapons so
powerful that they could kill all of the people on a planet in one attack.
And that is what they did-they killed all of the people on certain planets,
as a warning and threat to others.
On one planet, the government on one great populous island nation bought
eight ships, old but large, for they believed that their world would be
chosen for destruction. And besides that, they were a people who
despised and rejected war, because of the kind of war, called
"megawar,"*2 which they had in that region.
Hurriedly they prepared the ships for a very long voyage. Each ship would
take several thousand people, and also things they would need when they
settled to live on some far world, including seeds and certain animals. For
there would be no towns or manufactories* waiting, or even people, but
only the native planet in its wild state. Then each sept on the island
selected one in 200 of its people to go, and when all had boarded, the
great ships left, never to return.
They traveled together on a set course, not stopping anywhere at all until
they were far outside the region they knew about. They wanted to be very
far away from the war before they chose a new home. After that they
continued on the same general course, but deviated* to one side and
another to inspect star systems along the way for a planet on which they
could live.
In this way they discovered the garthid peoples, who look quite different
from humans. The garthids live on planets mostly too hot, and with gravity
mostly too strong, for humans. Indeed, our own world of Tyss would seem
cold to the garthids, although most humans find Tyss much too hot. But