Water-rooted plants

Usage examples of emergents.

Qeng Ho and Emergents, the two expeditions, had danced around each other for days, probing for intent and firepower.

The best Qeng Ho estimate was that the Emergents were strict authoritarians, but Ezr saw no overt marks of rank.

Yet the Emergents had thawed many of their people before living space was in place.

The Emergents were masters of fabric and ceramics, though Ezr guessed that bio-arts were nonexistent.

A hush fell upon the seated Emergents and all but the most self-absorbed Traders.

Surely there’s nothing suspicious about the Emergents having nice quarters.

Watching your fleet officers on the return taxi, I got the feeling people are pretty mellow about the Emergents now.

She let him be for a hundred seconds or so, then started on her schemes for making profit off the Emergents, “if we live through the next few Msecs.

You know the delicacy of our situation now that the Emergents have arrived.

In a few years their relationship with the Emergents could become a relatively normal, competitive one.

Of course, the Emergents might regard unilateral contact as a kind of betrayal in itself.

None of us trust these Emergents, and if they turn on us, there would be no recourse.

The Emergents, on the other hand: The military symbols clustered around their ships were hazy assessment probabilities.

The Emergents had brought twice the gross tonnage, and the best guesses were that they carried proportionately more weapons.

That left two possibilities: cut and run—or stay, cooperate minimally with the Emergents, and tip off the Spiders at the first opportunity.