Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - April 2016
Channelore HellicottAtham:
Ardent doesn't seem to have any active nanos, does he? Their eyes go red when they are relying upon nanos - i.e. Alice's did when she fought the nanobird, and Sedna's were when she fought Alice - and I expect Gavia's will no longer be red now that she has been stripped.
Ardent used technology to adjust his phenotype but as he said early on he prefers to otherwise rely upon his own biology form, his body, for daily living rather than upon nanotech as Gavia did. We have never seen Ardent use nanos nor have red eyes..
TinPenguin:
Ardent definitely has nanomachines, not that he knew that until they started upgrading things. But no nanos he uses for his own purposes, à la Gavia.
As for the red eyes, I'm not convinced it has anything to do with technology. So far there's little evidence for it being more than an artistic depiction of anger. It may yet prove more significant.
And that red light from the moon; is it an impact event, or a beacon in response to a signal? My first impression was actually it was simply the fading light of the "thooom" as the Night Walker still travelled.
Channelore HellicottAtham:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 23 Apr 2016, 01:15 ---Ardent definitely has nanomachines, not that he knew that until they started upgrading things. But no nanos he uses for his own purposes, à la Gavia.
As for the red eyes, I'm not convinced it has anything to do with technology. So far there's little evidence for it being more than an artistic depiction of anger. It may yet prove more significant.
And that red light from the moon; is it an impact event, or a beacon in response to a signal? My first impression was actually it was simply the fading light of the "thooom" as the Night Walker still travelled.
--- End quote ---
Good point about Ardent's upgrade skills, I'd forgotten about that; I guess then in him they are entirely latent and seemingly co-opted by The Baddies. Or else he had no latent nanos and the Praeses / Baddies loaded him up like a pack mule pre-departure.
With the eyes, I had considered whether it were an anger thing except the shade was exactly the same as Gavia's all-the-time colour, and seemed too neat and tidy in how it suddenly turned on and off..
Moon thing is hella interesting - either something from NanoBird hit there, or just launched from there in response!
JimC:
I make the 'impact' point on the moon about W 2, S20. In the highlands a bit south and east of Arzachel. The red corona, or whatever it is, is about 20 degrees across, getting on 400 miles I reckon. Vaporised surface, ejecta, heated surface, who knows, but if the latter that's a mindblowingly huge energy release. The actual impact phenomenum, crater or whatever, well hard to be accurate about 3 pixels, but certainly not as big as Tycho. Could be 20 miles across? That has, as they say, left a mark.
As for what it signifies, who knows, we shall just have to wait and see. I don't think I see an interplanetary/orbital war scenario though, it doesn't feel like the writer's style to me.
Method of Madness:
Ardent knew about some of his nano. Isn't that what fixed his delightful tail?
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