Gul Du Lac
Gul Du Lac is believed to be a scientist of ancient Earth.[1]
She was one of the 13 Appollians who led mankind away from Terra tens of thousands of years ago, landing first on Luna. She was instrumental in determining the suitability of alien worlds for mankind’s habitation. Her greatest theorem posited that certain worlds occupy positions relative to their star that enable life to flourish, the so-called Zonality Gul Du Lac.[1]
Three Ursine Hypothesis
Gul Du Loc's theorem for world habitability classification was based on solar input. It was often referred to as the Three Ursine hypothesis, due to the analogy she used to explain said theorem. Gul Du Lac's three ursine analogy is as follows:[1]
"Each has gruel for his breakfast. The first ursine has gruel that is too hot, and goes hungry. The third ursine has gruel that is too cold, and rejects his repast. But the middle ursine! His gruel is just right."
Trivia
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- This information provided by Cawl is a play on the Imperium's (and Adeptus Mechanicus's) fundamental misunderstandings/misinterpretations of the past. Exhibiting the loss of information in the far future. A few things this passage references are:
- "Zonality Gul Du Lac" is a reference a star's Habitable Zone, often referred to as the Goldilocks Zone. The definition of the “habitable zone” is the distance from a star at which liquid water could exist on an orbiting planet's surface.
- "Gul Du Loc's three ursine analogy" is a reference to the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears by the English poet Robert Southey.
- "The 13 Apollians" is a reference to the Apollo 13 Lunar landing mission. Scheduled to be Humanity's third Lunar landing, it was aborted mid-mission and successfully returned to Earth.
See also
Sources
- 1: Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel), Chapter 5
