[quote=@Lugubrious]
To my understanding, there is a completely blank planet, the 'new world' beneath us.

<Snipped quote by Kho>

My thanks to you.  Because Escre is so different, an 'alien presence', one not remotely human, it thinks in a very different way.  I expect it will be a pretty interesting presence.
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If you read Kho's CS you will see that the 'new world' is just emptiness that can contain a universe not a planet.