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From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Genesis Sun - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 09:57:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!friedman    Aug 16 08:57:00 1984

> I hadn't realized the SUN was created by Genesis;  I don't 
> recall hearing that in the novelization although my memory 
> isn't so hot.  I always thought Genesis was created near an 
> existing "proto-star" [sic] in the nebula and just assumed 
> an orbit there.  Any comments, proofs, refutations, etc.?

It's been a while since I read the novelization, but I seem to recall
David commenting that, since the new planet found itself not to be near
a sun, it activated a subroutine to put one together.  (How any program
could survive the conversion of all matter for light years around the 
device is beyond me.)  It seems clearly implied (not only by that passage)
that the sun was as new as the planet.