I'd be interested in hearing other people's comments.
To me, the one thing to be aware is that
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1) the side-effect of knowing the circular written language is a degree of foresight of the future and "ESP intuition" (i.e. it's not time travel as some seem to think)
2) this foresight is incomplete and cannot be triggered at will, it just comes at you like an emotion or an intuition (proof: main character's fragmented and step-by-step understanding of how to stop humans from attacking the ships)
3) because of #2, there is an incentive in giving the gift to as many people as possible (hence the hectapods teaching it to humans and trying to lead humans to use it together and share their initial understandings of it)
2) this foresight is incomplete and cannot be triggered at will, it just comes at you like an emotion or an intuition (proof: main character's fragmented and step-by-step understanding of how to stop humans from attacking the ships)
3) because of #2, there is an incentive in giving the gift to as many people as possible (hence the hectapods teaching it to humans and trying to lead humans to use it together and share their initial understandings of it)