What does Akned mean when he talks to Soshika about eyes weakening?
It’s a disease common to people who travel space a lot, called Star Blind. Being in space so long, you spend a lot of time looking at the light from stars that is not dimmed or filtered by a planet’s atmosphere. Eventually the light damages the optical nerves and they begin to deteriorate. Pilots like Koji wear special goggles to keep the starlight off their eyes if they have to view the outside. Normally moniters are used, however. It is commonly the passengers which become star-blind, as they are near portal windows. To be completely star-blind means one must have spent a very, very long time being carted around space. Animarians and Mites do not go star-blind. Some races become affected faster than others- Hekshanians fall starblind relatively quickly, as do Nikitaks. Myches can, but it takes a long period of time and they have the technology to correct the damage with surgery.
