![]() ![]() The colony was led by Admiral Paul Benden and Governor Emily Boll, who had both been key leaders in the war. These people had lived in a technocratic society recovering from a war with an alien race. Pern was colonized by settlers originally from Earth, First Base on the Moon, and the colony at Alpha Centauri. Eventually, they labelled the planet with the acronym: Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible (i.e., insufficient to support interstellar commercial investment). Despite the beauty of the planet, the EEC team was puzzled by a repeated random pattern of circles of bare dirt which they observed across the whole globe. One member of the EEC team, Shavva, found the pristine planet so beautiful that she struggled to remain objective. They recorded geographical, geological, botanical, ecological and zoological information in a variety of locations, some of which are recognizable as areas of interest in other Pern stories. The EEC team spent ten days assessing the planet. ![]() This is in keeping with McCaffrey's themes of space exploration and colonization to escape from a polluted and overcrowded Old Earth, explored in many of her different series. Pern was explored and cleared for colonization by an Exploration and Evaluation Corps team, two hundred years before the actual colonization commenced. ![]()
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