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"Destruction"

Developments

• The probe self-destructs after having been programmed to do so by Sahjit.
• Zo’or and Sandoval plan to assassinate Joshua Doors, ironically approaching Michael Sloane for the job.
• Joshua Doors visits the homeship and convinces Quo'on to bring President Thompson's concerns before the Synod. This prompts Zo'or to privately declare Quo'on's leadership weak.
• Sahjit is killed in the attempt to destroy the probe and rescue Rayna.
• Kee’sha is killed by Rayna using the probe's weapons.
• Rayna Amitraj's consciousness is now housed in a replicated, mechanical body produced by the probe.
• Joshua Doors and Lili Marquette have dinner together. While Lili is at first reluctant to begin a serious relationship, she reconsiders after Sahjit's death.

Backstory

Joshua Doors

• Joshua has been appointed the first U.S. Secretary of Human-Taelon Relations, a cabinet-level post.

The Taelons

• A Taelon laboratory was located in Naryan Mar, Russia, until the explosion of the probe destroyed it.
• Technology
  
  • Virtual glass exists from nanosecond to nanosecond, like a strobe light.

The Probe

• The Probe’s weapons include some kind of directed particle beam.
• Rayna’s DNA was mapped into the probe’s data banks, apparently confirming Sahjit’s theory in "The Scarecrow Returns." Her memory and personality were also somehow retained, allowing her to eventually gain some control over the probe’s functions.

Miscellaneous

• President Thompson’s military advisors have suggested that the bacterial outbreak in "Infection" was a weapons test.
• There is an SI War Memorial in Washington.
• The first concerto for the “tubes” has been written.