Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE

Alice Grove MCDT March 2015

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Loki:
I think she happens to have her own goals, whatever they may be, and they just so happen to align with the goals of the Praesides they leave her be. She may also be handling everyday minutiae the Praesides don't want to deal with. So she gets to live in an environment she enjoys, and the Praesides get a park ranger slash janitor slash sheriff slash caretaker for free. It's kind of a symbiosis, although I get the impression Alice doesn't particularly like the Praesides.

Schwungrad:
Maybe Alice knows something about the nature or the origin of the Praeses they don't want to be publicly known, and can blackmail them into leaving her alone. Or they don't want to interfere with earthly matters for ideological reasons. Or they just don't care about what goes on among the primitives and don't even know she exists. I just can't imagine Alice reporting to any higher authority. Among other things, if she were a kind of park ranger, she would probably have called (or tried to) the Praeses herself, and asked what to do with these runaway kids. Of course the advanced civilisation would be able to stop her if she were to do anything that blatantly goes against their interests - but as long as she doesn't, they might well tolerate her existence and actions without considering her an agent of their rule (and much less her considering herself that).

grez:
Gavia has to give up nanotech to escape for some reason, but because of a last minute glitch Ardent has to sacrifice his body/consciousness to remove the nanotech from her so she can get off this crazy rock. Ardent turns into the night walker, watches the sky mindlessly forever

tywren:
Could the reason Gavia can't make contact have something to do with the Nightwalker swarm? Think about it, the thing is made up of countless nanites, with a program/AI that's most likely distributed throughout the swarm. That would mean that every unit would have to maintain contact with the swarm as a whole. Could it be that those trillions upon trillions of local com signals are simply flooding the spectrum, thus acting like a jamming field to Gavin's broadcast?

Wildroses:
Plausible Tywren. If true, it buries my theory that the Praeses deliberately tricked the terrible twosome into going down there so they could maroon them permanently. I've always assumed the Praeses were getting Gavia's messages and ignoring them.

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