>A fitting tribute for someone who
>might have been the first human to orbit the Earth. Well, I won't go that far, it's a bit tinfoil-hat; but the builders of the spaceport giving an early cosmonaut who died in a training accident and then was miserably mishandled in the historical record his due is enough, I think.
>Another line caught my eye, though; Azula's comment about finding out
>"the larger shape of the cosmos". Some of the Twilight cast apparently
>knew before the action started at least a little about the Nine
>Worlds, but I can't help wondering how common any of that knowledge
>was.
Not very. Gryphon knew about it because he knew Bell et al. from Back in the Day; Zoner knew about it because Zoner; and so on, but in general it's very uncommon knowledge indeed. More people know about the Ultramen than are aware of Asgard. In Azula's case, she's spent much of her life looking for proof of the existence of, and pathways for getting to, little-known and hidden worlds. It's a measure of how good at that she was - and how elusive Dìqiú is - that in that process she discovered the homeworld of the gods, but not her own.
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