Pointless minor trivia: I know, I can hear you - "How can Gilou and Ri'el feel doomed? What of the much-vaunted bioengineering skillz of the Aquaans?" It makes sense to them. They'll explain it to you later.
And thus wraps up the arc and the unofficial Book One of this pulp. Thank you for sticking with us this far as we've wandered around looking at things and I've got a better grip on this whole 'running series' mess. Book Two has Yogzarthu home-life and the Man From The Past, but mostly Tal and Gilou caught up in their respective Family Responsibilities: Tal having spent the last twenty years putting them off and Gilou who is coming to realise exactly what hers entail and what the stakes are. And, yes, Book Two is more answers than questions.
But we're starting it with something lighter: Tal has to make a speech. He doesn't want to.
Archive page says 272. Goodness knows how long the next one will be. I know how many arcs, but I rarely know actual page counts until the arc is done - I chop the scripts into pages as I go along.