Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - May 2016
brasca:
--- Quote from: Verteiron on 21 May 2016, 15:31 ---Her reaction isn't helpful or fair to Ardent, but it's also hard to blame her for lashing out. She's terrified, bereft of what are to her basic functions. People do insane things when they're scared.
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It's preferable too. At worst Ardent will have a bloody nose from this which he can quickly recover from, but words hurt a whole lot more. It's not over yet since she passed out so she may have a lot more to say to him, but suppose instead of hitting him she said things that can never be taken back like how she wishes she didn't have a brother or she will never again be his sister even if they make it back to the space habitat. That would wound him more than any punch to the face.
If I was partially responsible for my sister's traumatic experience I'd take a beating over disowning any day.
There's a lot we don't know about this technology. Perhaps it can be replaced and this is just a temporary inconvenience, but maybe those implants cannot be installed again if removed and her situation is permanent. There's also what happened while she was merged with the Night Walker. Perhaps she learned about its purpose and if the Praeses are involved and now knows that she and Ardent will never make it back home because of whatever scheme they have designed.
JimC:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 22 May 2016, 07:02 --- She might not even KNOW she's lost her nanotech yet...
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I suspect that finding herself lying on a blanket rather than floating in mid air would have been a pretty solid clue.
Now if you want a bizarre mental picture, consider: had she still been floating in mid air, how would they have brought her along with the cart?
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Zebediah:
--- Quote from: JimC on 22 May 2016, 12:37 ---
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 22 May 2016, 07:02 --- She might not even KNOW she's lost her nanotech yet...
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I suspect that finding herself lying on a blanket rather than floating in mid air would have been a pretty solid clue.
Now if you want a bizarre mental picture, consider: had she still been floating in mid air, how would they have brought her along with the cart?
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Simple - tie a rope to her ankle and tow her.
jheartney:
I should think the nanotech has a backup up in orbit, and that Gavia could be dosed with blank nanites which would be flashed with the old backup memory. Or maybe the nanotech is impregnated into her old smock, so all she needs to do is get a replacement and put it on.
But all that can only happen if she gets back home. If she and Ardent are stuck planetside for the foreseeable future, she'll be without this essential part of herself for a long time. Kind of like one of us losing one of our senses.
Perhaps the Nightwalker is just a tech "guard dog" meant to snuff out any un-allowed tech on the planet's surface. if expunging Gavia's nanotech has made it vanish, then Ardent and Gavia are a one-two punch meant to upset the pre-existing low-tech order on Earth: Gavia neutralizes the guard dog, and Ardent spreads the virus of new tech. It would explain why they were both allowed to come down, and why their calls for return were ignored.
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