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<p>Prophet aspect: Aliens have been at this longer, start giving advice, etc, which influences the direction of the LV society for better or worse</p>
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<h2 id="rough-outline">Rough outline</h2>
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<ul>
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<li></li>
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<li>Locations/characters:<ul>
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<li>Castor:<ul>
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<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>
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<li>Codrin Balan - clerk for meetings, historian for info coming from remote ship</li>
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<li>Answers Will Not Help - managing news, info coming from guest/remote ship via Why Ask Questions</li>
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<li>True Name - is there being a bitch</li>
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<li>[four aliens] - visitors/emissaries, learning about system, humans, life, etc, got their own subtle machinations going on</li>
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</li>
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<li>Remote ship:<ul>
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<li>Tycho Brahe - overwhelmed, gawking tourist, trying to glean as much astronomical knowledge as possible, almost uninterested in aliens qua aliens</li>
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<li>Codrin Balan - amanuensis/reporter</li>
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<li>Why Ask Questions - shaping reports back, starts considering shaping their society</li>
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<li>True Name - is there being a bitch</li>
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<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>
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</li>
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</article>
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<footer>
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<p>Someone very smart had then listened and listened and listened to the looped instructions, taking it all in, learning the language, learning all they could.</p>
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<p>Three light hours, though! That was too close, much too close. And fast! He didn’t remember their current speed and wasn’t collected enough to look, but it must have been nearly as fast as theirs.</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>We understand the mechanism by which we may meet. Awaiting consent.</p>
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<p>We understand the mechanism by which we may meet. We have similar. Instructions to follow. </p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>And this is why Tycho was scared shitless and too excited to breathe. This meant that they had somehow learned the information thoroughly enough to pick up on the final set of instructions, the information about the Ansible and about how to build a build a mind accurately enough to send through the Ansible.</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Awaiting consent.</p>
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<p>Consent? Consent to commence? Who was he to provide that? Tycho Brahe, born with some much more boring name, the sad excuse for an astronomer who couldn’t even see the stars? Who was he to say yes or no? Who was he to pick one or the other?</p>
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<p>Did it even matter?</p>
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<p>Laughing, tears streaming down his face, the instructed the perisystem connection to send a simple message. Two words.</p>
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<p>Consent granted.</p>
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</article>
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<footer>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-22</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-23</p>
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