![]() ![]() To Speak for these dead, he must first unravel the web of secrets surrounding the lives of the Piggies and those who study them. Andrew Wiggin is called to Lusitania to Speak the deaths of the two xenobiologists, and walks into a maelstrom of fear and hatred. This time, again, men die-bizarrely killed by the Piggies. This time, there will be no tragic misunderstandings leading to war. The only humans allowed to meet them and speak with them are trained xenobiologists, and then only two at a time. And so the Pequininos, as they were named by the portuguese-speaking settlers, the "Piggies," were placed off-limits to the colony. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. a young race, beings just beginning to lift their eyes to the stars and wonder what might be out there. ![]() On Lusitania humans found another race of ramen. The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. In three thousand years, his books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon have become holy writ, and the name of Ender anathema he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. Ender remains young-travelling the stars at relativistic speeds, a hundred years or more might pass while he experiences a month-long voyage. Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Ender Wiggin won humanity's war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. ![]()
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