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*WARNING! this will contain spoilers for those of you who haven't read Speaker, Xenocide, and Children of the mind. Although if you haven't, you should. *
I was re-reading the rest of the Ender series, and something occured to me.
Jane becomes a master at taking things Outside and Inside again EXACTLY where she wants them- as in, ON a planet's surface.
My question is this: what is the point of making those boxes to transport people? Why can't she just transport the whole of Lusitania at once, or even the planet itself to a different location, so as to avoid the fleet? If she was able to take Peter to the inside of the fleet, at an exact point, what's keeping her from taking the people, buggers, and piggies to another planet all at once? Wouldn't that save time, and, in effect, ease everyone's minds about the ordered shut-down?
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I think Hatrack was down for awhile. It was really slow on my computer too.
( I don't really intend to answer your question because I think the only person who can really answer it is Mr. Card. Mayhaps you should post it on the other side of the forum? He might see it there.)
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Now delete it off this side. There's no need for it to be on both, and nothing worth keeping has been posted in the thread on this side anyway.
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I'm not positive, but i think Jane has to hold the idea of the objects she's moving in her memory. Maybe the vastness of an entire planet, with all its intricacies and lifeforms, was too much?
That sounds a little hollow to me, but obviously i don't know the actual answer...
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If you have reached CotM then you would know that Jane can barely hold the whole image of five humans and a ship at any one time. So trying to do that to an entire world would be way too much for Jane to handle.
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