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The Novel

  • Values Dissonance: The portrayal of Path and its people reads extremely orientalist by today's standards, like Orson Scott Card only knows Chinese customs and history from skimming a book released before the Great Leap Forward.

The Game:

  • Inferred Holocaust: Your planet has had three moons for a very long time and now, you have blown them all up. Given that in the real world, our Moon drives the ocean's tides due to its gravity, such massive destruction is bound to massively rebalance these gravitational effects on the planet itself, potentially generating tsunamis and the like. And that is before the possibility that debris from the destroyed moons are going to eventually rain over the planet itself, much like the original Endor Holocaust, except worse.

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