'How They Communicate with Animals' Summary

Making use of the newly restored ansibles, Admiral Bobby Lands sends instructions to all the starships comprising the Lusitania fleet from the command ship. They will decelerate to sub-relativistic speed in order to deploy the M.D. Device and then immediately assume relativistic speed in order to be clear of the detonation. He is uncomfortable with his role, knowing that history will remember him as the second Xenocide. Given his assignment, he has spent a great deal of time studying the life of Ender (the first Xenocide). Even though the boy did not know he was waging actual war, Lands feels Ender's decision to have been the right one: eliminate the enemy's means to retaliate by exterminating them utterly. He is less impressed with the work of the "bleeding heart" Speaker for the Dead" who...