I have what is probably a dumb question. Iserlohn Fortress is supposed to have had a large civilian population, right? I mean, families with kids, service industry (restaurants, bars, brothels, etc). So when Yang took the fortress, what happened to all those people? Did they all become prisoners of war? Were they sent back to the Empire? Did they just stay on the Fortress and keep doing the same jobs? For some reason, I get this image in my head of Lynn Minmay's uncle and aunt with their little restaraunt. One day her uncle comes in, "Well dear, looks like the Alliance took the station." And she answers, "Well, those boys have to eat too!" Jennifer -- jcaliff@ev1.net http://users.ev1.net/~jcaliff/iserlohn.htm "One of the mammals' evolutionary advantages was that they bore their young alive. As research has conclusively shown, animals that bore their young dead generally got nowhere." -- _Science Made Stupid_ by Tom Weller --