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saltcherry · 2 years

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cannot for the life of me discover the point that Muir is trying to make with

a. the eugenicist policies of the Houses re: breeding for necromantic aptitude, maximizing genetic diversity, etc.

b. the innate physical weakness that necromantic aptitude causes.

c. the presumed/implied genetic incompatibility between the resurrected/their descendants/“thanergy” planet births and the conquered/independent peoples on “thalergy” planets.

d. the mutation of life-forms on “flipped” planets.

What is the relation between all these things, both lore-wise and thematically?? I cannot tell!!

#rereading Gideon the Ninth and thinking about it #this doesn't even get into the House concepts of bloodline!#the corruption of nature and the corruption of the human are tied together but I don't know enough to figure out why #the locked tomb #something about the work of empire on the 'natural' world #something about removing the conditions that enable reproduction from the conquered population #people being on their third or fourth resettlement #slow genocides the removal of homeland literally removing the capacity for children #the mirrored problem of even the House populations having these serious reproductive problems #the preoccupation of empire with birthrates

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