[quote=@Antarctic Termite]
Also, note for timeline: Tauga never left Xerxes until she was dragged from it half dead. Writing reached Metera at about the same time as Chirality, and over the ten or twenty years thereafter it had a crunchy boom characterised by silk exports and massive stone architecture.
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Oh yeah, that's right. I think that point was there before I corrected by understanding of it back when the droningbirds were deployed. I'll change the Xerxes evacuation timepoint to reflect that.