Cnif hu Vanden is a civilian xenophysiologist on Talwin. His name does not come from the dominant Merseian Wilwidh culture. The personal name is followed not by a nickname and a Vach but by a surname as if Cnif were a Terran!
His people, descendants of Lafdiguans, live on a colony planet where they retain differences not only in dress, customs and language but even in their laws. Merseians are not as culturally unified as Terrans. Cnif has been to Merseia only for advanced education and many of its ways are strange to him.
As their airbus proceeds on a visit to the Talwinian Domrath species, Cnif discourses to Flandry, pointing out Barrier Bay and the Golden River and describing the cataclysmic seasonal changes. Clearly, individuals like Cnif are not the cause of the inter-imperial conflict.
Ydwyr is a scientist, a scholar, an aristocrat - a nephew of the Roidhun -, a tolerant being and supremacist to the core. According to him, the problems are the policies of every other government, not of his! Those who are the problem do not realize that they are.
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Kaor, Paul!
And those attitudes and views of Ydwyr were not limited to him. I recall Djuanda coming to realize many of the other Merseians, no matter how nice they were as individuals, agreed that Terra's refusal to go gently into that good night was the problem!
Ad astra! Sean
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