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It's a small point ... but I'm sure I'd read that "Pern" was first an acronym for "Planet Earthlike Resources Negligible".

But twice I've had to change it from "Paralell Earth Resources Negligible".

Am I wrong? I can't find the reference, but my DoP series isn't complete these days (too many loans). Please, if you know better, correct it, and post here with the documentation, it's bugging me. BigFatDave 21:06, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My copy of Chronicles of Pern: First Fall has this quote on page 17 (in the story "Survey: PERN"): "they were all three quite willing to let Castor initial it PE.R.N.-parallel Earth, resources negligible." --CAnderson 17:29, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ahhhh ... That's one of the one's I lent out and never got back. Thanks C.A. BigFatDave 23:30, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I went in and fixed a few typos and such, and added a bit of detail. Good job on this article, though! BTW, I assume "telsopce protect" in the final section is a typo for "telescope project", but I've never read 'Skies of Pern' so I wasn't sure enough to change it. --Swartzer 03:43, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

One thing this article lacks is any info on the printer craft and the computer craft (they may be called something else, but they do exist and are recognised as being independant of their parent crafts, i think).

[edit] Dragonettes and Fire-Lizards

Dragonettes (with a thumb and only two hook-like fingers) were the original native stock. There are no dragonettes left in the world by well before the time of the 9th Pass. Fire-Lizards were the stock modified by Kitt Ping, giving them pendactyle (five fingered) claws, blunter noses, and a higher brain development. The Fire-Lizard possessed dominant traits and the original Dragonettes simply bred out of existence.

Someone needs to stop switching the text back, trying to state that dragonettes were modified from Fire-Lizards.

24.239.94.33 23:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC) Angel the Techrat

At a guess the confusion is caused by the tendancy to refer to immature dragons as dragonettes. And the fact that the original settlers still reffered to the modified fire-lizards as dragonettes in 'Dragonsdawn'. If I remember right it was Sean Connell who first started calling them fire-lizards and it took a while for the name to catch on. Danikat 23:53, 17 February 2007 (UTC)