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The Arizona Republic

Saturday, August 15, 2415

Nobel Prize Winner Hundar Knowler dies at 91.

UPPтАФSearsport, Maine Province

Family retainer, Stanworth Davis, reported yesterday that Mariner Hundar Knowler died of
respiratory failure at his home on the evening of the13th. Hundar Knowler was the last known living
Pisces. He was 91.

Hundar Knowler came to prominence in 2359 when the Pisces Congress announced him to the surface
world as the PiscesтАЩ new Mariner, that societyтАЩs highest office. Spending more time above the water
than any of his fifteen predecessors, Hundar Knowler quickly established himself as the voice of
reason in world politics just as the Martian crises was reaching a head. He is traditionally credited
with preventing war between Mars and Earth when the Martian Vicar was assassinated in the World
Seat chambers in October of 2372. Though war did break out in 2373, Hundar Knowler was
nonetheless named that yearтАЩs recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, only the third Nobel Prize awarded
to a Pisces.

Despite the destruction of Atlantis by the Rock in 2374 and the following years of genocide of the
remaining Pisces, Knowler remained active and visible in world politics. (EditorтАЩs note: The Pisces had
no known name for their capital city located about 150 kilometers southeast of New YorkтАЩs Long
Island. As a result, it was commonly known as Atlantis by non-Pisces humans.) He and a coalition of
moderates in the Seat bartered an uneasy truce with Mars in 2378, but it never fully took hold; and full
war again broke out between Earth and Mars in 2386.



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After the conclusion of the Terran/Martian Wars in 2389, Knowler and his family retired to Searsport,
deep in the Maine wilderness. Married in 2366 to Janine WayhavenтАФa non-Pisces humanтАФthey had
three children; Everett (2368-2397), Katherine (2371-2397), and an unnamed boy who died at birth in
2375. Janine died in 2401 at the age of 72.

Though he remained in seclusion, Hundar Knowler was an outspoken opponent of NATechтАЩs
growing involvement in the World Seat. He maintained this increasingly unpopular political stance
until his death