The Viridian delegate insists that no intelligent being could have anticipated the confluence of events that has led Viridian “civilization” to what we must now consider a metastable plateau. We can only hope this leads him to a new appreciation of Parliamentary strategy; to correct these failings of the rational mind is the heart of the Calculus.
–Ex-Praetor Xelno Valcosa, proceedings of the ad-hoc committee on the Viridian Emergence, Parliament of Worlds

The destruction of the Third Nova Generator exposed and exacerbated several disruptive trends in Viridian society, beyond giving rise to a host of new urgent issues. As the Nova Entity rent open the cracks left by the Mind Plague, the potent currents of the White Flower Dreaming began to shine like a beacon to sensitives throughout the sector. The concurrent pilgrimage of sentients receptive to Greenling iconography and the exodus of Individualists towards the familiar safety of Parliamentary worlds caused rapid demographic shifts and civilizational interminglings that would send ripples throughout the settled galaxy, to say nothing of the impact of those other intellects which would respond to the call of the conjoined Minds.

This was accelerated by the revolution in interstellar travel brought about by the ignition of the Minds of Viridia. The dual nature of the Nova Entity illuminated a previously incomprehensible passage in Starlight 0, opening the door to rapid and nearly effortless mass migrations through superluminal parallax calculations against the orbiting sentiences.

—Heichner Kzolknov