Didonian Communication

(I neither understand nor like this cover image but we need variety.)

The Rebel Worlds, CHAPTER NINE.

A Didonian speaks through all three linked organisms simultaneously:

"Three voices answered her." (p. 454)

Flandry thinks that the linguistic structure must be contrapuntal but I am not sure what that word means in this context.

"'Skilled With Soil is evidently just what the name implies, a gifted farmer. In other combinations, heesh's units might be part of an outstandin' hunter or artisan or musician or whatever. That's why there's no requirement for a large population in order to have a variety of specialists within a communion.'" (p. 455)

Human beings need a large population of diverse individuals to run a complex society. If everyone wanted to be an electrician, who would do the plumbing, let alone the brain surgery? Didonians, like Ythrians and Ishtarians, are Andersonian aliens with appropriately alien societies.

Of the Didonian units:

nogas eat, therefore remember botany;
rukas manipulate, therefore remember manual trades;
krippos fly, therefore remember meteorology and geography;
all species remember language and some other general information.

I think that there will be more posts on Didonians.