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%title Nevi'im
In which the Dreamer Module comes to roost and now they've got aliens.
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Prophet aspect: Aliens have been at this longer, start giving advice, etc, which influences the direction of the LV society for better or worse
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## Rough outline
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* Locations/characters:
* Castor:
* Tycho Brahe - astronomer, in a bit of hot water for answering without consulting, chosen as delegate while handled by True Name's stanza
* Codrin Balan - clerk for meetings, historian for info coming from remote ship
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* But The Dead Know Nothing - Amanuensis in training via Codrin (small bit of penance for modifying history)
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* Answers Will Not Help - managing news, info coming from guest/remote ship via Why Ask Questions
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* True Name - is here'n'there being a bitch
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* [four aliens] - visitors/emissaries, learning about system, humans, life, etc, got their own subtle machinations going on
* Remote ship:
* Tycho Brahe - overwhelmed, gawking tourist, trying to glean as much astronomical knowledge as possible, almost uninterested in aliens qua aliens
* Codrin Balan - amanuensis/reporter
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* But The Dead Know Nothing - Amanuensis in training via Codrin
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* Why Ask Questions - shaping reports back, starts considering shaping their society
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* True Name - is here'n'there being a bitch
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* [several aliens] - society is like [something], they are shaped like [something], they are originally from [somewhere] but they were post-biological (beyond implants) before uploading/launching
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* General plot:
* 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/aliens don't want to slow down)
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* Aliens upload into dmz to meet with Tycho, Codrin, Answers Will Not Help, and True Name. Lots of discussions.
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* Tycho, Codrin, Why Ask Questions, and True Name upload into similar DMZ on the remote ship. Lots of discussions
* Begins with a lot of learning about each other
* Shifts to gentle nudges this way and that to information sent between the two ships and between DMZ and System as a whole
* Shifts from there to gentle nudges back and forth on each others' societies
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* Climax??? Maybe there is a subversive faction of both humans and aliens who figures out how to break through the DMZ on each?
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* Denouement: Who's upset? Who's happy? Why? What's next?
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* Notes:
* [ ] Codrin not sure how ey feels about always being the amanuensis for everything big. Not tired, really, but frustrated?
* [ ] Tangents/interludes throughout about how The History and Mythos affected launch-side society, maybe also sys-side via transmissions
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* [ ] Maybe Tycho dies, or invests entire in the remote ship, then gets the Sarah Williams quote read at memorial?
## On the Origin of Our World
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* [o] Mythos - An Expanded Mythology of our World by May Then My Name Die With Me of the Ode clade
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* [o] [Reaching for the stars ](origin/mythos/001 ) - 517
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* [o] [The beginning of beginnings ](origin/mythos/002 )
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* [o] History - An Expanded History of our World by the Bălan clade
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* [o] [On the justifications for Launch ](origin/history/001 ) - 833
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## Outline
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* [.] Epigraph
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* [-] *Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.* --- Ecclesiastes 7:10-11
* [-] *Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful; but time and chance happen to them all* --- Ecclesiastes 9:11
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* [.] *Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold; for wisdom is better than jewels and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.* --- Proverbs 8:10-11
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* [-] *Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night* --- The Old Astronomer to His Pupil - Sarah Williams
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* [o] Act I - leading up to the arrival of the guests
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* [o] [Tycho Brahe 001 ](local/tycho/001 ) --- Tycho seeks out Codrin to tell em what happened. - 1481
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* [o] [Codrin Bălan ](local/codrin/001 ) --- After coping ahead w/ Tycho, Codrin expresses worries with Dear - 1896
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* [ ] Act II
* [ ] Act III
* [ ] Epilogue
