The Star
The single bright point of light in Painter's sky, surveyed up close for the first time by the interplanetary ship: a planet mostly of oceans with very few land masses, populated by limber four-armed chalk-white beings who travel by sailboat. Whatever the long-standing assumption that this is Yumi's world, it is not. The narrator still suspects the planet shines through the shroud at all because of Virtuosity's Splintering somewhere nearby. STD:YNP:Ch 30
A single bright point of light in the otherwise black sky of Painter's world, visible even through the shroud. Long assumed to be a star, telescopes have lately revealed it to be a planet — and best guesses suggest one with people on it. The narrator suspects it shines through the shroud at all because of Virtuosity's Splintering somewhere near it. STD:YNP:Ch 1 superseded at STD:YNP:Ch 30
Known facts
- revealed-to-be-planetLong taken for a single bright star, the star has been resolved by telescopes as a planet — and best guesses suggest one with people on it. Scientists in Kilahito are planning a voyage to it, intending to lay a pair of hion lines across the intervening dark.STD:YNP:Ch 1
- voyage-plannedScientists in Kilahito are planning an interstellar voyage to the star, intending to span the dark between worlds with a pair of hion lines laid the whole distance.STD:YNP:Ch 3
- not-yumi-world-after-allThe first close survey of the star disproves the long-running assumption: the bright neighbouring planet is mostly oceans with few land masses, its people sail in vast numbers of boats, and the limber four-armed chalk-white beings who come up to inspect the landing vessel are unmistakably not human. Yumi is not from there.STD:YNP:Ch 30
Backreferences
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 1
- factThe Shroud
- factThe Star
- factVirtuosity
- factVirtuosity
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 3
- factThe Star
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 7
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 14
- factThe Interplanetary Ship
- factThe Star