<li>Tycho Brahe - astronomer, in a bit of hot water for answering without consulting, chosen as delegate while handled by True Name’s stanza</li>
<li>Codrin Balan - clerk for meetings, historian for info coming from remote ship</li>
<li>Answers Will Not Help - managing news, info coming from guest/remote ship via Why Ask Questions</li>
<li>True Name - is there being a bitch</li>
<li>[four aliens] - visitors/emissaries, learning about system, humans, life, etc, got their own subtle machinations going on</li>
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<li>Remote ship:<ul>
<li>Tycho Brahe - overwhelmed, gawking tourist, trying to glean as much astronomical knowledge as possible, almost uninterested in aliens qua aliens</li>
<li>[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</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Aliens upload into dmz to meet with Tycho, Codrin, Answers Will Not Help, and True Name. Lots of discussions</li>
<li>Tycho, Codrin, Why Ask Questions, and True Name upload into similar DMZ on the remote ship. Lots of discussions</li>
<li>Begins with a lot of learning about each other</li>
<li>Shifts to gentle nudges this way and that to information sent between the two ships and between DMZ and System as a whole</li>
<li>Shifts from there to gentle nudges back and forth on each others’ societies</li>