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** IIRC, Bitra was founded by a group of dissident types who believed Bitra was actually an awesome martyred hero who died trying to save Pern.
*** As far as Lemos and Nabol Holds go, Bart Lemos and Nabhi Nabol managed to somewhat salvage their reputations when they agreed to attempt a flight to the Oort Cloud to gather Thread spores. Granted, they did it in order to secure the rights to what would later become Ista, but as they both died in the attempt, the Holds were likely named in honor of that final sacrifice. As to Bitra Hold, this is what ''The Dragonlover's Guide To Pern'' has to say on the matter.
{{quote| "[Avril Bitra] is believed to have been heroically martyred for the sake of the colonists of Pern when she single-handedly piloted a small ship with faulty controls head-on into the wandering planet, the colonists' name for the Red Star. The original founders of Bitra left Benden Hold because of disagreements they had over Bitra's role in the foundation of Pern. Their view was that Admiral Benden and Governor Boll stood by to let Pern fall to the terrible menace while only Bitra and her colleagues tried to save it. Bitra was called the champion of the lost cause, who was failed not by her skills but by a sabotaged starship. In the end, despite the opposition, the Hold was named as a memorial to Avril Bitra."}}
* That big to-do about who gets to be Weyrleader in ''Dragonflight''. What, so the dragons wouldn't have a problem about father-daughter incest if R'gul weren't such a [[Harry Potter|greenbowler]]?
** Considering Kylara's plan in ''Dragonquest'' to get F'lar by having her Prideth replace her mother Ramoth to mate with Mnementh (her father), probably not. Kylara directly says "It isn't as if there's anything ''wrong'' with mating your father..." (slightly paraphrased as I don't have the book on hand), and Prideth's objection is that "''Mnementh is Ramoth's''," not that he's her father.
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