4.5 Traffic

There's almost no traffic on Ajthat. People rarely travel, or are at least not seen, and it is hard to say what would they travel between. The whole planet can be best described as one scattered village, where [one] can reach as far as fourth or tenth neighbour before dark. There are no clear borders between places, nor [are there] clear centers, places where a larger group of people would gather, any structures of religion or state. Thus it is possible to walk a large portion of the planet while looking like someone who went to buy something for lunch.

No vivacious transportation of goods is observed, nor of informations. Even the energy transportation flows unnoticed - even the lighting of the roads is not customary here. With three moons which alternately light the night side of the planet, that is not necessary. Only two or three times a year it happens that a good portion of the night is dark, but that is simply known in advance and in those nights [one] does not start on [the] road.

(Romfu) that we don't notice some things does not mean they don't exist.

Among means of transportation noticed were road oneseaters and twoseaters, some with sails, foot driven (pedals and an obscure system of strings, pipes and spanned membranes). For cargo hauling there are models with trailers, extended rear part or they simply tie a rope somewhere to pull the baloon to carry the load. They usually run the baloons down the wind - they probably know their winds. They do know how to harness the wind, that we often saw the load pulling the cart.

We never so any big building, specially not anything which couldn't be built out of the materials found on the spot. No big building makhines. We saw only one building site, a dozen people were using hand tools, without any large technical aid. Out of the soil dug nearby they made adobe, which they baked on a handy mirror, and they bound it with some mixture of clay and bouillon out of plants from a nearby pasture. The beams are wooden, of trees planted purposedly there a necessary number of years in advance. They strengthened them again with some other stew of surrounding plants (they let us know the plants were specially cultivated, and that nothing is built where they won't take root).  Various harness and spikes are made of the same tree's branches, strengthened in another process. All in all, everything on that site came from within walking distance. We didn't notice any great rush; [one] would say that building is more of a religious rite than hard work.

Possible answers to questions arising:

(Gelon:if they bake brick on sunshine, what stops them from making bigger mirrors?)