sunlit man Mistborn and Roshar space war spoilers mentioned in Sunlit Man

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In "The Sunlit Man," we encounter a Scadrian spaceship manned by scientists affiliated with the TimeTellers, a political faction on Scadrial. These scientists are a part of the official Scadrian Space Force and are deeply involved in research related to the escalating arms race between Scadrial and Roshar. Additionally, the story reveals that steelpushing has been integrated into everyday devices, making this powerful ability accessible to the general public. What other intriguing spoilers  have you come across?

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12 hours ago, Kiriv Velonall said:

In "The Sunlit Man," we encounter a Scadrian spaceship manned by scientists affiliated with the TimeTellers, a political faction on Scadrial. These scientists are a part of the official Scadrian Space Force and are deeply involved in research related to the escalating arms race between Scadrial and Roshar. Additionally, the story reveals that steelpushing has been integrated into everyday devices, making this powerful ability accessible to the general public. What other intriguing spoilers  have you come across?

One interesting point that we can glean from the Sunlit Man is that space age Scadrians are actively searching for Investiture-rich worlds, embedding themselves into them (sometimes by trade and sometimes by force), and performing society-wide experimentation trials on them. With sixth of dusk, we had evidence that at least one band of rogue traders was engaging in such activities, but after Sunlit Man, it's clear that the behavior is systemic and very likely endorsed, funded, and contracted out by Scadrial's government(s) and militaries.

A second point worth noting is that Scadrians still appear to be fractured and tribalistic deep into the space age. This probably shouldn't be too surprising considering how actual humans work in real life, but it is worth noting. The female scientist who the Sunlit one meets in the vault seems totally divorced and dissociated from the horror of the experiments that they are conducting on innocent people, because she is; they do not seem to regard outsiders as "people." Historically, groups who practice that sort of belief externally also practice it at home. I would take this to imply that era 4 scadrial might have a functionally-unified military for defense and warfighting, but almost certainly won't have a truly unified government (Meaning that, tragically, the stratification, concentration of power, exploitation of vulnerable tribes, and deepseeded resentments leftover from Harmony's ascension may never fully heal within the entire arc of the Cosmere. And he was the extra-good, super-nice, double-Shard trying to fix the sins of the past leftover from the explicitly genocidal racist emperor who came before him!!!  )

Lastly, (and much more speculatively) the great lengths that the scadrians go to in order to remain hidden, as well as how legitimately successful they are at avoiding detection while conducting globe-spanning experiments that could make nazis blush in embarrassment, is further evidence that they have done this before, on numerous other worlds both in series and in parallel. This means to me that either 1) Harmony (or maybe Discord) has completely lost control of traffic in and out of Scadrial and late-stage Scadrians are invading the rest of the cosmere with impunity for the purpose of rampant Investiture-exploitation (because...that is what they are used to having done to them and karma is an insane counter-intuitive b**ch like that...) or 2) Scadrial's scientists, engineers, and soldiers are responding and reacting against off world threats which are so grave and targeted that Harmony (or maybe Discord), the kindest and seemingly most well-intentioned of all the Shards, has given them his blessing and chosen to not take action to halt their coming and going (which he could presumably do at anytime like Autonomy).

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1 hour ago, Kiriv Velonall said:

In "The Sunlit Man," we encounter a Scadrian spaceship manned by scientists affiliated with the TimeTellers, a political faction on Scadrial. These scientists are a part of the official Scadrian Space Force and are deeply involved in research related to the escalating arms race between Scadrial and Roshar. Additionally, the story reveals that steelpushing has been integrated into everyday devices, making this powerful ability accessible to the general public. What other intriguing spoilers  have you come across?

Spoilers about the future conflict between Roshar and Scadrial? Not much. It's surprising to see Scadrial divided into factions and that's the biggest discovery. Mechanization of Metallic Arts was already bluntly predicted by the introduction of Primer Cubes and Malwish Medallions in BoM, so this was the expected outcome. But all of this was written as vaguely as possible, calling it only "current conflicts" to give us no clue about what's going on between those two planets. We probably won't see much of this until Mistborn Era 4. To be fair, Six of the Dusk revealed more information about it then The Sunlit Man.