I was responding to this part:
SWM wrote: And I wasn't saying that there were other sectors actually rebelling yet. ... It had not yet gotten to the point of rebellious outbreaks, ...
Bill Woods wrote:As I said before, there'd been some small-scale activity.
SWM wrote:
It doesn't matter whether there was any other rebellious activity. It is irrelevant, entirely beside the point. The point is that Mesa already knew that Palane was there. [Drescher] didn't get that information from the incoming ships; the news had already been spread around the planet long before the ships showed up.
You're right.