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Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal (1150 words) |
 | The Qax had destroyed the solar system gate, but a lashed-up human ship (a great chunk of soil including Stonehenge, crewed by a group called the Friends of Wigner) passes through the returning gate, traveling back to the unconquered humanity of 1,500 years ago. |
 | The future Qax takes two Spline ships (presumably leaving behind the nightfighter; this might be the nightfighter that is discovered by the crew of The Great Northern millennia later in Ring) through the gate and on the journey reveals to Parz the reason behind its desire to completely destroy the human race. |
 | The Qax goes on to speculate that the torus created a Kerr metric, and that it allowed egress from the current universe, that it was in effect an escape route for the Xeelee. |
| Qax / Gakh - Azerbaijan - Azerb.com (362 words) |
 | Qax is a pleasant and tranquil provincial town, northwest of Sheki, at the base of an appendix of Azeri territory that penetrates into Georgia and Dagestan. |
 | Qax train station is isolated and quite far from the town, so you may consider using Sheki's station instead. |
 | Artificial hills suggest that the region was inhabited already in the Bronze Age. |