The Rolandic natives can:
cast illusions;
sense and send thoughts;
breed new intelligent species to order;
support their civilization without any visible agriculture, buildings, mines etc.
A Rolandic "wraith" is a coordinated swarms of cells. A giant, four-armed "nicor" is like a walking tree that can survive many shots from a gun.
This suggests another idea. A tree cannot be killed with a gun. Years ago, a comic strip sf story featured two alien species that wanted to fight a war but first had to steal each other's weapons to be able to kill each other!
The natives and the colonials will have a lot to teach each other now that Sherrinford has destroyed the illusion and ended the conflict.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Anderson writing a story set on Roland a hundred years after the events seen in "The Queen of Air and Darkness" would have been very interesting!
Sean
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