The Celestial Steam Locomotive (The Song Of Earth) - Plot & Excerpts
They occur in earlier legends from different parts of Old Earth but at the time of the Triad they were the tools of Starquin as he shaped the Girl to his Purpose. Starquin’s Purpose... This did not emerge until the Hate Bombs were planted, so the one very important event that happened before the Hate Bombs—the ingestion of bor by the beautiful tiger-Captain Spring—was accidental and had nothing to do with Starquin’s will. In fact the coming of the Macrobes was ultimately against the will of Starquin because it resulted in the Inner Think and human longevity, and the Regression... It is ironic to think that those tiny, kindly parasites were responsible at first for shortening human life. The Macrobes. There are many stories of the Macrobes and the beginnings of their partnership with Man, which resulted in the creation of a new form of homo sapiens. Probably the simplest is contained in an ancient recording of an event on a rock in the Asteroid Belt, sometime in the 95th millennium, at which time the new humans were known simply as the Hosts... Agonistes took a thousand-year egg from the basket and popped it.
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