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# In the earlier project, the Visitors were uniformed, and their uniforms were remarkably similar to Nazi uniforms. In the present project, the Visitors dress as civilians--though the human youth auxiliaries, now called "Peace Ambassadors," do wear uniforms.

# In the earlier project, the Visitors were uniformed, and their uniforms were remarkably similar to Nazi uniforms. In the present project, the Visitors dress as civilians--though the human youth auxiliaries, now called "Peace Ambassadors," do wear uniforms.

# In the earlier project, the Visitors never sent any advance scouts. In the present project, they did, and those scouts are responsible for the current trouble state of the world.

# In the earlier project, the Visitors never sent any advance scouts. In the present project, they did, and those scouts are responsible for the current trouble state of the world.

# In the earlier project, the Fifth Column had no obvious motive, other than sympathy with the humans--though the short-lived TV series suggested that the Fifth Columnists were members of a persecuted religious tradition. In the present project, the Fifth Columnists are clearly libertarians, and are motivated by the desire to free themselves from dictatorial rule. The Fifth Column got its start among the advance scouts, apparently when some of them took human wives (or husbands) and discovered that love was no respecter of national or even planetary origins.

# In the earlier project, the Fifth Column had no obvious motive, other than sympathy with the humans--though the short-lived TV series suggested that the Fifth Columnists were members of a persecuted religious tradition. In the present project, the Fifth Columnists are clearly libertarians, and are motivated by the desire to free themselves from dictatorial rule. The Fifth Column got its start among the advance scouts, apparently when some of them took human wives (or husbands) and discovered that love was no respecter of national or even planetary origins.

# In the earlier project, the Visitor society was explicitly militaristic and answered to a never-shown Leader. The present project is somewhat less clear. Is Anna, the leader of the expeditionary force, in fact the leader of the entire Visitor society? Does that society consist entirely of the crews of the expeditionary force, and the much larger main force waiting beyond the [[Kuiper Belt]] for a signal to invade? Or do those forces have an entire planet, with all its resources and industrial capacity, to back them up? In any event, Anna exerts her leadership, not by any militaristic organization, but by an explicit cult of personality. She encourages her people to worship her as a goddess, and dispenses the telepathic "Bliss" whenever she chooses--a thing that the Fifth Column rejects as a thing as unhealthy as is any [[drug]] addiction.

# In the earlier project, the Visitor society was explicitly militaristic and answered to a never-shown Leader. The present project is somewhat less clear. Is Anna, the leader of the expeditionary force, in fact the leader of the entire Visitor society? Does that society consist entirely of the crews of the expeditionary force, and the much larger main force waiting beyond the [[Kuiper Belt]] for a signal to invade? Or do those forces have an entire planet, with all its resources and industrial capacity, to back them up? In any event, Anna exerts her leadership, not by any militaristic organization, but by an explicit cult of personality. She encourages her people to worship her as a goddess, and dispenses the telepathic "Bliss" whenever she chooses--a thing that the Fifth Column rejects as a thing as unhealthy as is any [[drug]] addiction.