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The Doctor exits the TARDIS sometime later, and meets Francis on the road to Landfall. As they walk, Pool sends Counsellors to bring the TARDIS to the station. The Doctor realizes that Arcadia has been terraformed, but now its terraforming is breaking down, and the native life is reasserting itself. He and Francis are captured by Counsellors, which the Doctor recognizes as a bizarre type of android. He realizes that he may be indirectly responsible for what is happening here. They are reunited with Benny and Elaine at Landfall, then transmatted to the space station. The Doctor explains that his [[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|previous efforts]] to help the Earth by interfering with the [[Butler Institute]] may have caused all this; had he not interfered, Butler may not have gone on to become one of the parent companies of the Spinward Corporation, and Arcadia may never have happened. Meanwhile, Defries' group fights their way into Landfall, noting that it is the corporation's original forward base on the planet. Johannsen is killed in the battle against the Counsellors. Nevertheless, Lacuna secretly allows them to infiltrate the base and capture a shuttle, which takes them to the space station as well. | The Doctor exits the TARDIS sometime later, and meets Francis on the road to Landfall. As they walk, Pool sends Counsellors to bring the TARDIS to the station. The Doctor realizes that Arcadia has been terraformed, but now its terraforming is breaking down, and the native life is reasserting itself. He and Francis are captured by Counsellors, which the Doctor recognizes as a bizarre type of android. He realizes that he may be indirectly responsible for what is happening here. They are reunited with Benny and Elaine at Landfall, then transmatted to the space station. The Doctor explains that his [[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|previous efforts]] to help the Earth by interfering with the [[Butler Institute]] may have caused all this; had he not interfered, Butler may not have gone on to become one of the parent companies of the Spinward Corporation, and Arcadia may never have happened. Meanwhile, Defries' group fights their way into Landfall, noting that it is the corporation's original forward base on the planet. Johannsen is killed in the battle against the Counsellors. Nevertheless, Lacuna secretly allows them to infiltrate the base and capture a shuttle, which takes them to the space station as well. | ||
The Doctor and his group encounter Lacuna and Britta, and Lacuna introduces them to Pool. Pool is the telepathic presence holding the system together; it is composed of the brains of the Spinward Corporation's executives, with the addition of hundreds of pieces of brain matter from generations of Arcadians, all contained in a literal pool around control | The Doctor and his group encounter Lacuna and Britta, and Lacuna introduces them to Pool. Pool is the telepathic presence holding the system together; it is composed of the brains of the Spinward Corporation's executives, with the addition of hundreds of pieces of brain matter from generations of Arcadians, all contained in a literal pool around control centre of the station. Lacuna's claims were true; she provides a sensory and interface link to Pool, which on its own is deprived of sensation. As such, she also controls the system. The Doctor realizes that Pool is capable of Block Transfer Computation, the same mathematical technique by which TARDISes create their outer shells—a form of math that can create matter. Pool's goal is to create an entire universe, one of pure thought, in which it can exist forever. However, the Doctor analyzes the plan and finds it doomed to failure; although the planned destruction of the Arcadian System will provide power, it won't be enough, and at any rate Pool has become mad and can no longer handle enough calculation. | ||
Pool, it seems, wants the TARDIS. It has gathered enough from the minds of Benny and Ace—the Doctor's thoughts being shielded—to know that it can provide Pool with the power and space it needs to create its universe of thought. To persuade the Doctor, it intends to kill his companions one by one, beginning with Ace. As it deploys a force field to crush her, Daak leaps in to save her—and Ace inadvertantly kills him, in an attempt to blow up the control panel. Although she is freed, she can't save him from death. | Pool, it seems, wants the TARDIS. It has gathered enough from the minds of Benny and Ace—the Doctor's thoughts being shielded—to know that it can provide Pool with the power and space it needs to create its universe of thought. To persuade the Doctor, it intends to kill his companions one by one, beginning with Ace. As it deploys a force field to crush her, Daak leaps in to save her—and Ace inadvertantly kills him, in an attempt to blow up the control panel. Although she is freed, she can't save him from death. |