Are We Looking at This From Struthers?

The author needs to have made clear this stakes at all these three levels. And that can only happen if the scene is firing on all of those cylinders. It also echoes back up to sam's problem, so that it gives us a clear view of how the authoris is drawing these parallels between what sam needs to figure out an what aur protagonist need to figure out. So it insures that your sen or whatever unit of story evaluating with the five planets that is oprating on allthese three levels.