<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>[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>
<liclass="done0"> Codrin not sure how ey feels about always being the amanuensis for everything big. Not tired, really, but frustrated?</li>
<liclass="done0"> Tangents/interludes throughout about how The History and Mythos affected launch-side society, maybe also sys-side via transmissions</li>
<liclass="done0"> 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.</li>
<liclass="done2"><em>Accept my discipline rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; no goods can equal her.</em>— Proverbs 8:10-11</li>
<liclass="done2"><em>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?</em>— Jeremiah 12:5</li>
<liclass="done2"><ahref="local/codrin/002.html">Codrin Bălan</a>— Goes to begin the work with Tycho, explaining how projects start, amanuenses - 2643</li>