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
- Castor:
- 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