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Sould's working counterpart in the culture hall. Reads her numbers back to her in front of her — a standing arrangement since the spring, when he caught a fouled sample line she was ready to write off a whole vessel on. In he argues the opposing engineering case: bank the best mother-line (V5) in cold hold and run the weakest alone — seventy-four measures a day instead of a hundred and seventy-eight — because he does not believe the Compact will feed the sector. Sould logs his alternative proposal under her own signature at his request ("let me be wrong in writing").
Sould's working counterpart in the culture hall. Reads her numbers back to her in front of her — a standing arrangement since the spring, when he caught a fouled sample line she was ready to write off a whole vessel on. In chapter 2 he argues the opposing engineering case: bank the best mother-line (V5) in cold hold and run the weakest alone — seventy-four measures a day instead of a hundred and seventy-eight — because he does not believe the Compact will feed the sector. Sould logs his alternative proposal under her own signature at his request ("let me be wrong in writing").
Across the stories
The Far Roads
RATIFIED A D-6: emrit is in the Book 1 SETHLAN FIELD PARTY — and he comes back. He is a Sethlan hall technician who works the mother vessels and the production side. A stock house at Threap is his professional domain. Reuse over invention. A Sethlan field party comes to the stock house at Threap for a lineage mother-culture — and they have their own objective, their own competence and their own internal split. they are not waiting to be rescued and they are not grateful. The communal-meal fact and the dim/warm environmental preference are working constraints on the extraction, not colour. Book 1's A-story CLOSES with everyone who was going to live coming off. The strand is a cost the reader watched being paid, not a withheld resolution. - Book 2 · ~2336–37 — MV Fettle goes OFF TASKING to get the stranded party. Belec did not ask, because asking produces a refusal she would have to disobey in writing. Book 4 · 2342–43 — Fettle comes in with the party – EIGHT YEARS LATE, into a thing already decided. he returns to the cairn.