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The Sixth Pass was the sixth period of Threadfall on Pern, some fifteen hundred Turns after men first came to Pern.

By the Sixth Pass of the Red Star, a complicated sociopolitical-economic structure had been developed to deal with the recurrent evil. The six Weyrs, as the old volcanic habitations of the dragonfolk were called, pledged themselves to protect Pern, each Weyr having a geographical section of the Northern Continent literally under its wing. The rest of the population agreed to tithe support to the Weyrs since the dragonriders did not have arable land in their volcanic homes, could not afford to take time away from nurturing their dragons to learn other trades during peacetime, and could not take time away from protecting the planet during Passes.

As a strong Weyrwoman was as essential to the survival of the Weyr as dragons were to the survival of Pern, Moreta, the Senior Weyrwoman at Fort Weyr, and her gold Orlith, took on the enormous task of dealing with a flu pandemic that had been carried by a feline from the Southern Continent.

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1508 -- 1558[1]

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