I tried to spare you most of it, just wanted to give you the info that pops up again in XII:RW. The plots are fairly unrelated, most of it what you needed was just the fates of the characters so that you'd know what each person's position was when they showed up in XII:RW. I only spent so long talking about Nethicite because the Suncryst is mentioned (only once, and you might even be able to skip it, but it is a fairly important piece of info), otherwise I would've skipped that altogether.