Earth
Names: EarthSol-Threethe Earthlings' planet
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 3 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 3Earth is a world the Milieu has surveilled for over sixty thousand years; it is now to be familiarized with interstellar society as a preliminary to possible Intervention.
- Ch 22Earth is a Lylmik favorite and an anomaly: it may produce a Mind able to either destroy or greatly magnify the Milieu.
Connections
- containsAmerican space stationin decaying low orbit
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 22Overseers puzzle over Lylmik involvement
Awakening in their shuttle, the Overseers realize the Lylmik will directly assist and shepherd Franco-American operants, an unprecedented step. RipRip Muml admits fear of humans, which Lashi Ala denies.
- Book 1 · Ch 32Evacuation and destruction of the American space station
After a meteoroid strike doomed the station's orbit, the last civilians evacuated and the US destroyed it, while Lylmik minds watched from Noumenon.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Unifex reveals his non-intervention plan
Unifex tells four Supervisors the Quincunx will not prevent the coming human–Milieu conflict, citing the Percruciate Progressive Principle, and proposes Plan B.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Supervisors test their incarnate bodies
After Unifex leaves, Concordance explains his scheme; Trend and Concordance go off to check their bodies, while Essence seduces a reluctant Impulse.