In addition, not a single elf is captured alive except for the very young, as they have the ability to stop their hearts at will. A few districts remain puzzlingly neutral, but when humans try to establish relations with one of them, it instantly joins the enemy side. In all that time, humans get no closer to understanding why the elves fight or how to make peace. The Alliance, one of the three human power blocs, ends up mired in a twenty-year-long war. Eventually, the overmatched enemy is driven back to his home world, but the conflict does not cease.
All negotiation attempts fail the elves fire without communication. Plot summary Īn unarmed human starship and its crew of fifteen hundred are destroyed by a technologically less advanced alien race, later called elves by the humans because of their resemblance to the mythical creatures.
The work was originally published in the 1985 anthology of military science fiction Alien Stars and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella. It deals with a war in which the two opposing species can not communicate with one another and do not know how to stop the conflict. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe. "The Scapegoat" is a science fiction novella by American writer C. But the powerful Earth Fleet was sitll a presence in the Beyond, and Pell Station was to become the last stronghold in a titanic struggle between the vast, dynamic forces of the rebel Union and those who defended Earth's last, desperate grasp for the stars.".The novella was first published in the anthology Alien Stars ( Baen Books, 1985). The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. "But Pell was just the first living planet. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. "Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. From the publisher: "The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth.
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