Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
ReindeerFlotilla:
I think Gavia may be wrong.
Not that I think Alice is right. There's a reason that writing persists, despite the advent of recording sound and video, and it's not just ease.
That said, I think Alice is heavily implying that Gavia's space people are quite a bit like Banks's Culture. They rely on their AI. The Culture, however, were well educated and not given to letting their AI serve them answers. I think Alice is implying that the Space People are not like that. That they trust information from the trees, implicitly. Given the strong hints that trees straight lied to both Ardent and Gavia, Alice probably has a point. Given her faint hostility towards the trees, I suspect it's a personal point.
dr. nervioso:
So I just had a thought, and this could just be me looking too much into this but here is what I am theorizing
A fraction of humans become technologically advanced. Something catastrophic happens ( A war, pollution, etc.) that causes mass destruction and brings human society everywhere to a halt. The remainder of highly advanced civilization leave earth for the stars, abandoning earth and leaving the less advanced humans to clean up their mess.
As for Alice's origin, I think she may have come from the advanced society at one point, which would explain why she knows so much about it. She learns about what the advanced civilization did and she abandons the advanced society for earth, helping the humans who are still barely surviving form some sort of society. She provides them with electricity, specifically clean and energy efficient electricity from wind turbines (Alice does not want to give the earth humans technology they could use to harm the earth or each other).
Alice doesn't want to give the locals any of this information because they will get angry and want to destroy the advanced space society, arcing their technological trajectory to one of war. Which would essentially be a repeat of the catastrophe. SO she is trying to guide the remainder of humanity into a peaceful, advanced culture. Or she is just trying to keep them alive. (Either of which may or may not be futile, we don't really know the situation)
This would explain her dislike of the Praeses, as well as her disdain for humanity itself. She's seen the horrible things humanity can do if left unchecked and she isn't going to tolerate it. (See: Alice's "discussion" with Jeb)
Now this is just speculation, another interesting theory is that she is an indentured servant/criminal that the Praeses use to maintain the zoo/reservation of primitive humans. Though I feel like this theory lacks as much evidence as the former
Mlle Germain:
To me the first theory sounds quite likely; I've been thinking something similar myself.
KOK:
If Ardent's goal is befriending Amos, he is doing great.
Wildroses:
I have a feeling Ardent's goal is to befriend everyone he meets. "Hi! Hello everyone scowling and terrified because my sister is with me!" "Teach me about pitchforks! Fascinating!" Way back at the start when Alice told him she planned to stay with him and make sure he didn't screw up her perfectly balanced society he didn't react by being annoyed at the implication he was dangerous and needed a babysitter, he was thrilled he had a tour guide.
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