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In the novel, the Engineer class from the Mote were not just good engineers; they had evolved over thousands of generations to be superlative engineers.
When the human ship arrived in the Mote system, an Engineer was the first Motie to see the ship. Once contacted, the Engineer set about to ready the ship for a journey home.
All of the metal in the Mote system had been mined and used. Now, metal was incredibly precious and every bit of it was reused and then reused. Engineer labor was cheap by comparison; it made it practical to launch a ship one way, completely rebuild and reconfigure it for the journey and then rebuild and reconfigure it for landing. Comment/Join this discussion ( 4 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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