Location from enders-game by Orson Scott Card
A colony planet where three sentient species coexist under a virus that kills humans but defines Pequenino biology — the setting of Speaker for the Dead and the Enderverse's moral crucible.
Lusitania is where the Enderverse's themes converge. Three sentient species — humans, Pequeninos, and the reborn Formics — share a planet, governed by an uneasy understanding and threatened by both the Descolada virus and Starways Congress's willingness to destroy the planet to contain it. The Descolada rips DNA apart but also regulates the planetary ecosystem and enables the Pequenino life cycle. Curing it threatens the Piggies. Not curing it threatens humans. The planet was nearly destroyed by an MD Device — Jane redirected the weapon back into its own ship. Lusitania is where Ender found the Hive Queen a home, where he became a Speaker, and where the question 'how do alien species coexist?' stopped being theoretical.
Temperate planet with vast forests and grasslands. Low biodiversity due to the Descolada virus — all native species exist in interconnected pairs. The forests are Pequenino territory. Milagre is the main human settlement. Underground, the Hive Queen builds a new Formic city in concrete.
Also known as: Lusitania