![]() ![]() I think the whole point is that the Culture is behaving exactly as the author of the Hydrogen Sonata. Seems to me the natural Culture response would be "eh, we'd really like to know this, but it's not worth risking a planet or other peoples lives to do". This from the Culture, who thinks it's very important to tell people that there's a one in thirty million chance that displacing them will kill them, because they really don't want to see people hurt. They shoot anti-matter bombs at stuff, and several people are put in danger to contact the Old Guy. Beardle gets a guy shot with lazors (granted, that guy was firing at him, but then they were sneaking into a Gzilt library thing, etc). One ship threatens to do battle with a Gzilt warship rather than going away, and then hyperspaces down to a planet in a way that, if it failed, could kill thousands or millions. Sure, they wnat to have it in case something weird happens, but it's not, like, crucial.īut despite this, they take some pretty big risks and jeopardize peoples lives in order to get this thing. ![]() It's the Gzilts business, and is mostly of a "this might affect their Subliming" nature, but it's not exactly world threatening information they have. The problem is, this thing they want proved isn't really their business. So, the plot is that there's a McGuffin they want to find, to find proof of something either being true or false. ![]()
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