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Zoologist Landing Fort Hold

Pol Nietro was the head zoologist of the original Pern colony. He came from First Centauri.

Biography[]

Discovering Fire Lizards[]

After Pol and Bay Harkenon discovered that Sean Connell had Impressed a fire lizard, Pol and Bay carried out the initial evaluation of the fire lizard's capabilities.

Pol suggested a trade of any dead dragonet eggs that Sean could find for a horse just like the gray horse named Cricket that Sean had owned before coming to Pern. When Sean agreed, Pol organized a expedition to find the lizard's eggs. Both Pol and Bay eventually impressed their own fire lizards.

After Bay's gold fire lizard Mariah was flown by Pol's bronze in her first mating flight, Pol and Bay decided to take quarters together. They then asked and got permission from Kitty Ping to try Mentasynth enchantment on the clutch of eggs that Mariah laid after the mating flight. One of these eggs was Blazer, who later become one of Connell's gold fire lizards.

Creating the Dragons[]

Pol and Bay worked alongside Kitti to develop the genetic programming that created the dragons.

During the Second Crossing[]

After dragonrider Marco Galliani and his brown dragon Duluth accidentally went between and never returned, Sean, Pol and Bay decided to try to figure out how long it took to fly between Landing and another location. First, a priority message was placed to Sorka Hanrahan's brother Brian at the new Fort Hold. Then, since the dragons had not yet learned how to intentionally fly between, Sorka sent her bronze fire lizard Duke to Brian, then asked Brian to send Duke back to Landing. They discovered that it took only eight seconds for Duke to travel in one direction, which was later determined to be the same time frame for a dragon to travel between locations.

Fort Hold[]

Pol died in the 16th year of the First Pass, also known as the Fever Year.

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