Four years prior, Libo was killed in the same way Pipo was, and more recently, Marcos Ribeira, Novinha's husband, had died of a terminal disease. However, recent events had brought others to call for a Speaker. By the time Andrew arrived, 22 years had passed on Lusitania, during which Novinha had canceled her request for a Speaker. Besides the dormant Hive Queen, Andrew traveled with Jane, an artificial sentience existing within the ansible network. Andrew opted to go to Lusitania without Valentine as she was due to give birth soon.

Novinha sent out a call for a Speaker for the Dead throughout the Hundred Worlds, in order to have someone speak the death of Pipo.Īndrew Wiggin was living with his sister Valentine and her husband Jakt on the planet Trondheim when the call for a Speaker arrived. Novinha, who had come to have feelings for Libo, locked her files, fearing that Libo will make a similar conclusion and meet the same fate as Pipo. However, this ritual normally included the planting of a sapling in the body, but there was no evidence this was done for Pipo they considered this hostile, and came to see the Pequeninos as a potential threat. When Pipo did not return, Novinha and Libo searched and found his body vivisected, which they recognized as part of a death ritual the Pequeninos gave to their fallen.

Pipo was inspired and raced out to ask the Pequeninos about it before revealing this inspiration. One day, she made a discovery about the Descolada: it was carried by every life form on Lusitania, including the Pequeninos. Novinha was taken in by father-and-son xenobiologists, Pipo and Libo, later becoming one herself. Shortly after arrival, the colony was ravaged by a virus, the Descolada, which wiped out many of the colonists before a remedy could be found, leaving a girl named Novinha orphaned. Unique to the planet was a sentient species, the mammal-like Pequeninos (Portuguese for little ones), drawing the attention of many xenobiologists to the colony. Three thousand years after the xenocide, humans attempted to colonize the planet Lusitania, but found its ecological system unusual compared to other planets.

And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery.and the truth.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening.again, humans die. In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

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