..: Pizo :..

Second Transmission

Hi again? It's difficult for me to use ancestor's

language. We spell it Ansesta, by the way, just a trivial

bit of data from Pizo.

So Pizo, what does it mean? Chiefly two things: a) The na-

me of the original Ansesta's ship, and b) the name of planet

it colonized, long, long ago.

And there's also c) our airship, which we also named Pizo.

Retrospectively that wasn't such a good name for our airship

but, I don't know, I guess we were all feeling patriotic.

Let me tell you about Pizo, the planet, because that's

probably more relevant to you. The Starship Pizo must be in

your records, perhaps hidden in some Gemini or Gopher server

somewhere. By the way we are still using Gemini, many have

tried to improve on it, but nobody could agree on how. It

remains useful, though. But I digress.

So, our planet, Pizo. Well, tis like Earth in many ways...

I'm sending the techinal data on a separate text file, for

whatever is worth. Differences? Well, there are just two

main continents, both around the size of Africa in your an-

cient Earth, but we call them Nor and Sur, which are our

words for 'North' and 'South'. Guess why.

Pizo compensates for the lack of large land masses with

thousands of islands, so many that most remain unnamed.

There aren't so many of us Pizoans(?)...

And that's the reason for our job. We are kind of a family

and friends and we trade and carry the odd passenger among

the islands. Small loads only, but that's enough form many

of the small isles.

I'm interrupting here for the pilot is nagging me again.

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