Shadow of The Giant
Although Achilles is dead, his legacy has grown to epic proportions. Postings on the Internet credit him as devising the plans that Ender used to defeat the Formics. This is patently false; as seen in Ender's Shadow, Achilles was sent away long before the Jeesh reached and assembled on Eros.
Achilles also implanted one of Bean and Petra's nine embryos into a woman named Randi. Randi gives birth to the child, whom she names Achilles de Flandres II. The baby's official name is Randall Firth, however, to protect the baby. The baby has Anton's Key turned; he is born prematurely and without causing pain to the mother, he learns to speak faster than normal, and he grasps concepts faster than normal babies.
Knowing that the baby is endangered at this time, Randi arranges for herself and the baby to go on a spaceship traveling at relativistic speeds. She believes that both Peter and Bean, Achilles' enemies, would be dead by this time; however, she does not know that Bean too is traveling on a spaceship in hopes of finding a cure for his condition.
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