Sytau is rabidly volcanic; a dozen supervolcanoes 50-120 kilometers wide are erupting across the planet. Sytau's carbon content and constant volcanism make natural diamonds plentiful, if extremely costly and dangerous to recover.

Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.

1. In 1980, a batch of more than 75 kilograms (about 2,000 pieces) of hollow head spades with slant shoulder and arc foot was excavated at Liuquan Village, Yiyang County, Henan Province².

THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself.