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Peter shrugged. "I suppose. Though we know that Aimaina Hikari is not the person or even one of the people we're looking for."
"Tell me whom we are looking for, then."
"We're looking for the center of power in the Hundred Worlds," he said.
"Then why are we here, instead of Starways Congress?"
"Starways Congress is a play. The delegates are actors. The scripts are written elsewhere." "Here."
"The faction of Congress that is getting its way about the Lusitania Fleet is not the one that loves war. That group is cheerful about the whole thing, of course, since they always believe in brutally putting down insurrection and so on, but they would never have been able to get the votes to send the fleet without a swing group that is very heavily influenced by a school of philosophers from Divine Wind."
"Of which Aimaina Hikari is the leader?"
"It's more subtle than that. He is actually a solitary philosopher, belonging to no particular school. But he represents a sort of purity of Japanese thought which makes him something of a conscience to the philosophers who influence the swing group in Congress."
"How many dominoes do you think you can line up and have them still knock each other over?"
"No, that wasn't gnomic enough. Still too analytical."
"I'm not playing my part yet, Peter. What are the ideas that this swing group gets from this philosophical school?"
Peter sighed and sat down-- bending himself into a chair, of course. Wang-mu sat on the floor and thought: This is how a man of Europe likes to see himself, with his head higher than all others, teaching the woman of Asia. But from my perspective, he has disconnected himself from the earth. I will hear his words, but I will know that it is up to me to bring them into a living place.
"The swing group would never use such massive force against what really amounts to a minor dispute with a tiny colony. The original issue, as you know, was that two xenologers, Miro Ribeira and Ouanda Mucumbi, were caught introducing agriculture among the pequeninos of Lusitania. This constituted cultural interference, and they were ordered offplanet for trial. Of course, with the old relativistic lightspeed ships, taking someone off planet meant that when and if they ever went back, everyone they knew would be old or dead. So it was brutally harsh treatment and amounted to prejudgment. Congress might have expected protests from the government of Lusitania, but what it got instead was complete defiance and a cutoff of ansible communications. The tough guys in