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Robert Borski wrote:
Now for the tie-in question. Up until what point did the godlings preach their thou-must-leave-the-whorl dictate? Is it just a coincidence that the first time we hear the new message about staying is shortly after Horn has come to the Whorl via the Silk transfusion? Why now, and not earlier/later?
One possibility that I had in mind is that the colonies on Blue (and Green?) are now "grown up enough" that they do not need any further assistance from the starship, beyond the seeds. They do not get a lot of feedback from the colonies on the ship, or so it seems to me, and it may be that Horn's arrival back on the ship is a trigger (alone or one of many different ones: for example, the arrival of the delegation from Gaon at about the same time) that the colonies are ready to stand on their own.
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