* [Five aliens] - visitors/emissaries, learning about system, humans, life, etc, got their own subtle machinations going on
* Artemis:
* Tycho Brahe - overwhelmed, gawking tourist, trying to glean as much astronomical knowledge as possible, almost uninterested in Artemisians qua Artemisians
* [several Artemisians] - society is like comprised of four different species gathered along the way, they are shaped like lizards skiltaire human-ish post-natural taur-types (original species), all went post natural but first went post-biological (beyond implants) before uploading/launching
* Agree to fall into trajectories that aren't diverging so quickly (using attitude jets and angling solar sail, though Castor is still moving slower and has little chance to catch up/Artemisians don't want to slow down)
* Decide that same representatives on both
* Artemisians upload into dmz to meet with amanuenses, Answers Will Not Help, and True Name. Lots of discussions.
* Climax??? Maybe there is a subversive faction of both humans and aliens who figures out how to break through the DMZ on each? Or perhaps humans are invited to join the other 4 species on the ship, also expand the DMZ (can't/won't change it from one-way, but folks can send forks into it to live, communicate through perisystem border. Codrin finally figures eir shit out so ey can make the proposal to also send forks to the DMZickles Dear because can't merge forks back
* [ ] Codrin struggles with feeling completely reactive and unable to be proactive. It's not that ey doesn't want to take on the project, but ey feels obligated to; it's not that ey can't decide whether or not to join the Artemis, but that ey can't do so unless Dear and its partner do so first.
* [ ] Artemisians don't have forking (except for very special cases like representatives), but have time management and reproduction (even between species)
* [ ] Conflict notes:
* [ ] Should stay away from humans are special thing a la Anathem
* [ ] Maybe less political machinations, more figuring each other out a la Axiom's End
* [ ] Conflict is figuring out that manipulation across species lines is, True Name has to give up attempts at such?
* [X]*If you race only with foot-runners and they exhaust you, how then can you compete with horses? If you are secure only in a tranquil land, how will you fare in the jungle of the Jordan?* --- Jeremiah 12:5
* [ ] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/003) --- Tycho#Artemis catches up on recent developments (instructions for interfacing with their version of the Ansible, instructions on course change to stay in closer contact for longer), meets up with Answers Will Not Help, who is surprisingly open about news management.
* [ ] [Codrin Bălan](local/codrin/003) --- Meets But The Dead Know Nothing to talk about joining the amanuensis team, repentant, talk about what that would even look like, decide on Odist translator as Tycho will be astro translator, laughs that this is the most organized project yet
* [ ] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/004) --- Tycho, True Name, Answers Will Not Help, other astronomer, and System tech fork to basically create a massive workforce to get all this done as fast as possible, .com
* [ ] [Codrin Bălan](local/codrin/004) --- Meeds up with the Artemis team, somewhat tense around True Name, but learns a bit more about the current status and how well under control it is (or how tightly controlled Odists are keeping it)
* [ ] [Interlude](interlude/001) - Ioan and May discuss news, but also Codrin's notes about feeling dragged along
* [ ] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/005) --- Tycho has a dream about meeting the Artemisians, wakes and talks with TN about preemptive cultural exchange so that they know more about each other, works with Why Ask Questions thinking she's Answers Will Not Help.
* [ ] [Codrin Bălan](local/codrin/005) --- Tycho, The Dead Know Nothing, have dinner with Codrin, Dear, Dear's partner, talk about jobs, what they used to do, how odd it is to have one. Tycho gets message re: culture and shares with table.
* [ ] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/006) --- Breakthrough means that they can indeed exchange emissaries, talks with True Name about who will actually be involved in this: him, Codrin, But The Dead Know Nothing, Why Ask Questions, TN, to be the same on both LVs (but Tycho doesn't notice the difference between WAQ and AWNH yet)
* [ ] [Codrin Bălan](local/codrin/006) --- Walk with Dear, talking about what to expect/not expect (actual understanding may take decades, some other stuff), Dear admits that this might be one it's glad to sit out, they talk about that
* [ ] [Tycho Brahe](local/tycho/007) --- They work out a date, start making preparations e.g: building the DMZ out a bit, forks for who's going, finally finds out that WAQ and AWNH are different, grumpy but keeps to himself
