seemingly the consequence of being separated from ones forebears is being deprived of the opportunity to learn from their mistakes? something enforced on Alternia by way of the space war, but which is the natural state of cherubs; “an asocial species” which “scatter their num8ers throughout space, each staking a territory spanning many lightyears”, resulting in a neverending cycle of violence generation after generation.

in both cases, each generation continues to use a single planet as a breeding ground, leaving upon adulthood and only returning to perpetuate the spiral… I suppose cherubs “scatter[ing] their num8ers throughout space” may be intended to call back to Meenah having “scattered all but the children throughout the galaxy”, a decision which ultimately served to shape the trolls into a race more like Lord English’s own!