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%title Nevi'im

In which the Dreamer Module comes to roost and now they've got aliens.

Prophet aspect: Aliens have been at this longer, start giving advice, etc, which influences the direction of the LV society for better or worse

Rough outline

  • 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
      • Answers Will Not Help - managing news, info coming from guest/remote ship via Why Ask Questions
      • True Name - is there being a bitch
      • [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
      • Why Ask Questions - shaping reports back, starts considering shaping their society
      • True Name - is there being a bitch
      • [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
  • 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)
    • Aliens upload into dmz to meet with Tycho, Codrin, Answers Will Not Help, and True Name. Lots of discussions.
    • 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
    • Climax??? Maybe there is a subversive faction of both humans and aliens who figures out how to break through the DMZ on each?
    • Denouement: Who's upset? Who's happy? Why? What's next?
  • 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