Dahak series

Hello,

Here I am again with a question on "Heirs of Empire" (3d novel of the Dahak
series, Baen Books' paperback, 1996).

This time it's a very general question, but I hope I can find a solution
herer since lots oy you people seem to know Weber's books VERY well.

Ok, basically I would like to know what happens EXACTLY (I only get a
general picure, which is not enough to translate) in chapter 19 of this
novel (pages 212 to 222).

Sean, Tam, Harriet and Sandy are in a cutter headed to the Valley of the
Damned. Once there, they get some signals on passive. Lots of signals, and
one of them seems to be bigger than the others. Tam suggests it could be an
orbital power feed. Harrie says he's right about saying it's a
"transmission" (where's the link between both things?). Then she talks about
a "passive solar job". Later in this chapter, the crew tries to go down a
slope to reach the valley where all this gear is, but on their way, the
system shoots on them. Finally, Sandy (who had stayed on top of the
mountain) destroys the shooting source and everybody is saved. Next
chapter, Harrie says to Tamman he was right to say all this thing was a
"power receptor".

Ok, I get the general picture: there was stuff in the valley that opened
fire on them. )

But what exactly is this stuff? What does it look like? What is/was it
supposed to do? What are the smaller sources and the big source? What's the
relationship between the whole thing and the quarantine system? What's the
relationship between it and the guys in the Temple? If it is a station
receiving solar power collected by an orbital platform, what was this power
supposed to be used for?

Thank you so much!

Lucas

Tom Weaver wrote:

> And on a CLEARLY related note - The new Imperium deciding to use
> English as their base language is a horrid idea! Such a mish-mash!
> Why didn't he choose Spanish instead!

So Spanish can become a mish-mash as well? So many new concepts to name.