Yep. And Bren does mention that, despite human efforts, atevi 1. still invent things on their own, and 2. take human tech in very unexpected directions ... and that the more tech they get, the more often that's going to happen. No wonder his superiors are a little edgy about the closing of the technological gap!
Those 'heretics' have spawned some fan discussion somewhere before; people were pretty excited at the idea that there might be an atevi subgroup whose interactions were much closer to humans. (Arguable, for certain humans -- e.g. the party on Mospheira who wants to just massacre them all, whom I'm not exactly thrilled to share a species name with. I'd rather Banichi than the Humans First party.)
With society forcibly centralized under a Ragi aiji
One of the things I really liked about the later books was the way some of the ethnic divides amongst atevi come into play -- I felt it made the atevi much more, well, likely? believable? Anyway, yes -- Lord Geigi being a Maschi overlord whose demesne is mostly Edi was interesting and made me wonder a bit how things might have turned out if, say, the coastal people hadn't delayed so long on first contact that Manadgi's aiji pushed in first...
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Date: 2011-06-08 01:09 am (UTC)Those 'heretics' have spawned some fan discussion somewhere before; people were pretty excited at the idea that there might be an atevi subgroup whose interactions were much closer to humans. (Arguable, for certain humans -- e.g. the party on Mospheira who wants to just massacre them all, whom I'm not exactly thrilled to share a species name with. I'd rather Banichi than the Humans First party.)
With society forcibly centralized under a Ragi aiji
One of the things I really liked about the later books was the way some of the ethnic divides amongst atevi come into play -- I felt it made the atevi much more, well, likely? believable? Anyway, yes -- Lord Geigi being a Maschi overlord whose demesne is mostly Edi was interesting and made me wonder a bit how things might have turned out if, say, the coastal people hadn't delayed so long on first contact that Manadgi's aiji pushed in first...