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During the trip, the ship's captain, Nathan Brazil, discovers that Hain is a "sponge merchant", a trafficker in a substance that causes an incurable, degenerative brain disease. The passengers are a businessman named Datham Hain, his "niece" Wu Julee, and a diplomatic courier identified as Vardia Diplo 1261. ![]() Meanwhile, the interstellar freighter Stehekin is transporting three passengers and grain intended for famine relief. They are swallowed up by the anomaly when it reopens. By the time he arrives at the anomaly, Varnett has already prepared for his arrival and the two struggle on the surface. Trying to protect the discovery, Skander stops at the team's camp and murders them. Skander and Varnett both believe that they will be able to use this anomaly to access the planetary computer, and both set off to attempt to take control. The rest of the team discovers a surface anomaly near the north pole of the planet, where a hexagonal "hole" appears for a brief interval every day. The computer runs on, and controls, that energy. The two conclude that the computer runs on a form of energy unknown to human physics, forming the basic unified field that governs the existence of the universe. One of the students, patterned (and named) after a brilliant mathematician named Varnett, sees Skander interacting with the computer and confronts him. Skander unlocks the mystery of the apparently dead computer. He leads a group of students studying the ruins. ![]() The planet was formerly occupied by the long-dead Markovian race, who are known only for the planet-sized computers they built into the crust of the planets they inhabited. Replace the original \THECHOSEN.EXE
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