Twenty Seven Potential Didonian Entities

The Rebel Worlds, CHAPTER ELEVEN.

Three Didonian entities, Cave Discoverer, Harvest Fetcher and Smith, accompany Flandry's 2000 kilometer trek to Port Frederiksen. Their nine units can recombine as, e.g., Iron Miner, Guardian of North Gate or Lightning Struck The House.

If we look back to the opening paragraphs of this novel, we find:

"Make oneness.
"I/we: Feet belonging to Guardian of North Gate and others who can be, to Raft Farer and Woe who will no longer be, to Many Thoughts, Cave Discoverer, and Master of Songs who can no longer be; Wings belonging to Iron Miner and Lightning Struck The House and others to be, to Many Thoughts who can no longer be; young Hands that has yet to share memories: make oneness." (p. 369)

Observations On These Paragraphs
(i) By CHAPTER ELEVEN, several of these designations have become familiar to us.

(ii) In the opening paragraphs, a noga ("Feet") and a krippo ("Wings") educate a ruka ("Hands").

(iii) Guardian of North Gate can be because all three of his units are still alive.

(iv) Raft Farer and Woe will no longer be because it has been decided not to reassemble them - I think.

(v) We already know that Many Thoughts, Cave Discoverer and Master of Songs share their noga and ruka. (See Three Didonians.)

(vi) These three entities can no longer be because their noga, ruka or both are dead.

(vii) Iron Miner, Lightning Struck The House and others are to be because their reassembly is intended.

En route, rukas leave linkage to gather berries while krippos leave linkage to fly as scouts whereas nogas plod forward, carrying equipment:

"Separated, the animals could carry out routine tasks and recognize a need for reunion when it arose." (p. 472)

Imagine:

your hands leave your body to gather fruit;
your eyes fly up to scout;
your body walks, carrying luggage;
while separated, your three sections are unintelligent.

Each of three nogas can link with each of three rukas. Each of these nine two-way linkages can link with each of three krippos. Thus, nine units can potentially form twenty seven entities.