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The whole of the island sequence in the book is derived from the diagram below. I began with the exterior design of the buildings - basing them on temples in India I gleaned from a book on architecture. The statues are based on a Greek figurine. The spider is a regular black widow.
I wanted the fugue ship to look similar to the Tax Collector I'd used in Platinum Mind but with newer and more deadly parts - not least the inclusion of the mantids.
Though Barras isn't part of the main plot, it does get visited in Exile and is mentioned in other books too as the capital planet of the Empire of Rickoby. This diagram stands as a summary of my ideas even though most of them have not been used.
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