Post B #7

Dear Orson Scott Card,

This alliance between these three species is amazing. If the galactic fleet does not destroy it, I could imagine Lusitania becoming very powerful with three opposite species working side by side. Maybe the humans could go and fight in the shuttles alongside buggers and perhaps the piggies, so that you would need a new strategy for each opponent. Also, they could work together creating new technologies because I'm sure each specie would think differently about problems so that they can work together to achieve what humans alone could not. The only thing I fear for is that the galactic fleet can foresee this and wish to destroy Lusitania in order to protect their own existence. The only hope is that, although this alliance would certainly never attack ANY humans, the fleet might not know that and would use their little doctors on the planet.

This is sort of like the situation in Iraq to an extent, because the U.S is working with the Iraqis in order to aid their situation, but the terrorists do not see this or do not like it, so they are opening fire. The main difference, however, is that the terrorists do not have the firepower at this present time to completely obliterate Iraq and leave everyone in it dead. The human weapons are really quite devastating in this novel, and they scare me. If humankind ever invents such a weapon as the little doctor, some madman or terrorist would get a hold of one and try to blow up the planet. Humankind's largest flaw and greatest strength compared to the buggers is our ability to think for ourselves. But this can lead to problems when you have a group such as the terrorists that wish to harm humanity rather than help it. The buggers, being completely controlled by the Hive Queen, obviously do not have this sort of problem.