How It All Goes Down
Jane
- The epigraph is a political treatise about how Starways controls the ansible through computers, which makes them really powerful and has allowed them to keep peace for two thousand years.
- Like the title says, this chapter is about Jane, and we start by talking about how bereft she is when Ender turns off his com-link.
- There's a lot of techno-babble meant to show how powerful Jane is and how much attention she pays to Ender (definitely check out our thoughts on Jane in the "Character" section), and we also learn that she experiences time much more quickly; a moment is a lot of years for her.
- We learn that Jane adopted the Battle Computer program from Ender's Game as her core self. The Battle Computer was something Ender played against in the last novel; for our purposes, it's another way of saying that Ender is super-important to Jane.
- She revealed herself to him and loved him, and when he switches her off she gets really upset.
- She realizes that she unintentionally hurt Ender and that he unintentionally hurt her back, though, and that it's okay.
- She's still really upset, though. But then she's got lots of time because she lives at superfast speed, so she more or less gets over it.
- In the meantime, she figures out why Libo and Pipo were killed, and alerts people off world to the fact that Miro and Ouanda have given piggies extra bonus knowledge.
- Shmoop believes we are supposed to like Jane. However, Shmoop does not.