An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge

I have lots of questions about the frame of the story*, but the story of Aldrea and Dak Hamee is A+.

The book is very intense, and I found it a little hard to read this time (if I hadn't been in public it might have made me cry). Parts of it felt like that scene in Big Hero 6 when

You get so much history, so much insight to the war between the Yeerks and the Andalites. Dak and Aldrea are well-developed, especially considering how short the book is.

This is another one that people will recommend reading before the main series, but I think the story carries more weight when read in publication order.

*Questions under the cut.

I had questions about where all the other free Hork-Bajir in the valley came from, but that's answered in book 23 (The Predator).

When did Jara Hamee become a controller? There are at least two generations of free Hork-Bajir before him, that's how he heard the story. But what happened that led to him being captured by the Yeerks? And how did he meet Ket Halpak? They were husband and wife before they were controllers, so was there some little band of free Hork-Bajir before the valley on earth (I think some of this is explained in The Prophecy)?

Tobias knows Visser Three's Yeerk name because he was there in The Warning when the Animorphs meet his twin. Though, I do kind of appreciate that it's treated like a revelation in this book because I didn't read The Warning as a kid.

Somewhere along the line Visser Three acquires a Lerdethak. Which probably means at least some of the other Arn creations survived because I can't imagine Alloran acquiring anything from the Hork-Bajir planet.