We can extend the comparison between Judge Daniel Espina and Guion. Both characters appear in framing devices. Espina tries to discern the subjective factors that motivated mutineers and thus made a slight change to history whereas Guion tries to discern the subtle factors that might change history in a mutable timeline.
There are two points about Espina's servant. The first has been made before. He is nonhuman but is not described so that film makers or graphic artists would have carte blanche about his appearance and no doubt would create very different versions. Secondly, maybe it is good that he is not described. We are spared yet another account of a humanoid form with longer legs, no external ears or a different number of fingers etc. Maybe for once it is better just to leave it that he is not human.
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Kaor, Paul!
I agree it's a subtle touch that Anderson did not describe Espina's non-human servant. I do not agree with the antipathy you seem to have for the idea that some non-human races may be humanoid, beings with one head, two arms, and two legs. To me my money would be on the judge's servant being exactly like (besides also being oxygen breathing). Because it would make it easier for beings of different races to have some resemblances to each other if they are going to live/work together. There is such a thing as parallel evolution!
Ad astra! Sean
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