Constellations And Conscience

Poul Anderson, The Avatar, XLVIII.

This chapter begins:

"The eye saw no change." (p. 390)

Whose eye? There is a point of view (pov) here but it is not evident whose until the third paragraph.

The opening paragraph continues:

"Sol stood radiant against a darkness where stars never winked in their countless brilliances, the Milky Way rivered silver, the nebulae and the sister galaxies glimmered remote, and the gigantic cylinder of the T machine whirled among its beacons..." (ibid.)

The Milky Way rivers again. See here.

The pov might have been a general one, i.e., no one's eye saw any change. However, the second paragraph is an italicized thought and mentions conscience in the first person singular:

"...a conscience too uneasy to let me sleep." (ibid.)

This is an individual pov. The third paragraph names "...Aram Janigian, commanding watchship Copernicus..." and makes it plain that Janigian at least suspects the legality of orders that he has received. How long can conspirators in high places sustain their juggling act of deceptions and betrayals? Not for much longer. Chinook is about to return with Betan support.