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"I assu me this because he somehow claims that he is the heir of the hive queens"

"Which is absolutely absurd because ours is the first colony that was not founded on the ruins of formic civilization"

"So how does he e it?" asked Ender

"He claihty percent of the total--areto reestablish here the exact culture they had on Earth While he and the others are the ones who are trying to create soall to call his little es' And he says we Indians are like the jackals who have settled other worlds--destroying the natives and then stealing all that they accomplished"

"And people buy this?"

"Oddly enough," she said, "not that et along"

"But some believe him," said Ender

"Millions"

"There aren't that many colonists," said Valentine

"He isn't just playing to the local crowd," said Virlos out by ansible There are chapters of the Natives of Ganges in most of the major cities of Earth Even in India Millions, as I told you"

Valentine sighed "I saw them referred to only as 'the Natives' on the nets and I wasn't interested That originated here?"

"They regard The Hive Queen as their scripture, and the formics as their spiritual forebears," said Virlomi "On Earth, their doctrine is almost the opposite of what Randall preaches here They claim that the FPE should be abolished because it erases all the 'genuine,' 'native' cultures of Earth They refuse to speak Coions"

"While here, Randall conde exactly that," said Ender "Preserving your culture from Earth"

"Yes," said Virlomi "But he claims it isn't inconsistent--this is not where Indian culture originated It's a new place, and so he and his 'Natives of Ganges' are creating the real native culture of this world, instead of a warmed-over copy of an old one from Earth"

Ender chuckled