It is honey-combed, and occupied by a curious oxygen-breathing race, whose primary method of technological communication is via modulated gravity waves (explaining the failure of previous attempts to contact the harvester). Aboard is Ces Ambre, the only survivor of the family which took in Raul Endymion; though she is not an Aenean, she received the Aenean nano-technology; she cannot freecast, but she is capable of empathetic communication with the more than 3 billion "modular... so fibrous" minds in the cinder planet. She successfully explains the harm their harvester has caused.
The structure is honeycomb-like and inhabited by a race that breathes oxygen and communicates through gravity waves. Ces Ambre, the only survivor of a family who took in Raul Endymion, possesses Aenean technology despite not being an Aenean herself. She can communicate with the billions of minds on the planet, which are described as "modular and fibrous."