Descolada

Whatever she showed Pipo had to do with the Descolada bodies, and it had to do with the piggies" "

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

And once they understand the Descolada, all the pretense of trying to protect the piggies will be done with.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

Thirty-four years ago the Descolada nearly destroyed this colony.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

Novinha was analyzing the genetic structure of the fly-infested reeds along the river, and realized that the same subcellular body that had caused the Descolada was present in the cells of the reed.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

"Every human being on Lusitania, except perhaps the Speaker, who may not have caught it yet, is a carrier of the Descolada."

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

GUSTO: Maybe that's why there are so few different species in Lusitania" the Descolada may be fairly recent, only half a million years old" and most species couldn't adapt.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

That the Descolada, which killed humans, was part of their normal physiology.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

Regardless of cell function, regardless of the species it was taken from, every alien cell contained the Descolada body, and the computer declared them absolutely identical in chemical proportions.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

Marc-o knew from childhood that he had this condition; his parents knew it before they died in the Descolada; Gusto and Cida knew it from their genetic examinations of all the humans of Lusitania.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

Instead he sat down and ran the same test over, asking her questions about how the computer comparison operated, and then what the Descolada body actually did.

Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986