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=== After the crash === | === After the crash === | ||
{{Spoiler|Descent}} | {{Spoiler|Descent}} | ||
After the crash Aditi gives all the time and resources to genetics, environmental studies and cloning; the other specialities are left without tasks, and the department divides. Many researchers drift away, some to become the first [[Hunters|Hunters]] under Claire. Two researchers studying the [[Crystal-plant hybrid|Crystal-plant hybrid]] are the first to absorb its energy. | After the crash Aditi gives all the time and resources to genetics, environmental studies and cloning; the other specialities are left without tasks, and the department divides. Many researchers drift away, some to become the first [[Researchers#Hunters|Hunters]] under Claire. Two researchers studying the [[Crystal-plant hybrid|Crystal-plant hybrid]] are the first to absorb its energy. | ||
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=== Hunters === | |||
The hunters are a group of survivors formed on [[Calima|Calima]] around [[Claire|Claire]], who becomes their leader. They hunt the native animals and provide most of the meat, skins and materials the survivors use. | |||
==== In the story ==== | |||
{{Spoiler|Descent}} | |||
The first hunters are researchers who felt alienated in their department and followed Claire after her first [[Kutsanp|Kutsanp]]; in days they number fifty. As energy runs short, and with it printed food, nanomesh and tools, they become the survivors' source of food, clothing and materials. Large prey such as the [[Vaghadata|Vaghadata]] are hunted by dozens of them with traps and fire. They live in the [[The hunters' camp|The hunters' camp]], celebrate in its hall, and are devoted to Claire. | |||
In Part 3 some 300 hunters, armed with equipment they have been stockpiling, lead the rebellion against the migration and march east with the engineers and reclaimers who join them. | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:07, 30 October 2026
The researchers are one of the three groups of the crew, with the Engineers and the Guardians: the scientists and doctors of the ship, from neuroscience and medicine to genetics. In section 9 Dana leads them until Aditi takes over. Claire, Nikau and Raina are researchers.
In Descent (2258)
After the crash
After the crash Aditi gives all the time and resources to genetics, environmental studies and cloning; the other specialities are left without tasks, and the department divides. Many researchers drift away, some to become the first Hunters under Claire. Two researchers studying the Crystal-plant hybrid are the first to absorb its energy.
Hunters
The hunters are a group of survivors formed on Calima around Claire, who becomes their leader. They hunt the native animals and provide most of the meat, skins and materials the survivors use.
In the story
The first hunters are researchers who felt alienated in their department and followed Claire after her first Kutsanp; in days they number fifty. As energy runs short, and with it printed food, nanomesh and tools, they become the survivors' source of food, clothing and materials. Large prey such as the Vaghadata are hunted by dozens of them with traps and fire. They live in the The hunters' camp, celebrate in its hall, and are devoted to Claire.
In Part 3 some 300 hunters, armed with equipment they have been stockpiling, lead the rebellion against the migration and march east with the engineers and reclaimers who join them.