Why didn't anyone go check up on AIVIS
after the 1st Pass?
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Susi, 9/7/98
Why didn't anybody return to Landing to check the AIVAS during First Fall or after it? I think it highly unlikely that people would disclaim such a useful facility. Somehow the explanations in the books were not really satisfying.
Jeremy Wong, 9/7/98
I think that after Mt Garben erupted, they could not locate the AIVAS building without a reference.
Cela, 9/7/98
Things were pretty manic during the evacuation - people were to busy trying to survive. The conditions at Landing were dangerous - poisonous gases and such like - maybe keeping Aivas operational was just too difficult. I think Sean or Mihall went back to check for Ezra Keroon when he was dying in the plague and found the building buried under ash - they probably decided it was too much trouble to dig it out.
Sariel, 9/7/98
During 1st fall people were too busy with thread to have the time for it. Afterwards, either
A)they'd forgotten already;
B)the volcano was quite probably still active enough to keep them away;
C)they couldn't find it under the ash;
D)the location looked like it would have been scorched beyond repair by lava.
Any number of reasonable explanations can be postulated...