To Become Like It

The Fleet Of Stars, 19.

"Always suspicious, the Selenarchs never found it reasonable that the cybercosm would withhold observations simply because they were enigmatic. If the great equation proved in need of amendment, what harm in that? Or...what promise, which the Teramind did not want humans to know of, lest they become like it?" (p. 237)

That concluding phrase is a covert Biblical reference: Genesis 3:22.

("...like one of us..." and some similar passages imply the polytheism that had preceded monotheism.)

Unlike at Alpha Centauri, the Lunarians in the outer Solar System have revived the title, "Selenarch," implying that they have never dropped their claim to the Moon. Political conflicts continue, just very slowly.