Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2016
sitnspin:
I am in that unhappy middle ground of not understanding most modern tech and not knowing how to do caveman level things.
brasca:
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--- Quote from: pwhodges on 07 Jun 2016, 13:58 ---And Ardent's still beating himself up over it in spite of Alice's explanation.
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I also think that there is a bit of blame being directed from him Alice's way too. He needn't bother; I get the impression that Alice blames herself for everything, including things that, for no sane reason imaginable, could she be responsible. I suspect that's what made Sedna leave her. She couldn't handle Alice's thundering conceit that, if only she was faster, smarter or more perceptive she would have foreseen and prevented some disaster.
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Seems likely although I think Alice is expressing this to Ardent to make him feel better. There really wasn't anything she could do since the Night Walker seeped in through a cabin instead of an open cave. Short of sealing Gavia in an airtight box (which has problems of its own) I don't see what Alice could've done to prevent that. What she really needs to be thinking over is why it didn't absorb Gavia's nanotech the first time. Was it just scouting the area the first time or was it under someone's control?
Wildroses:
Maybe the first time the Nightwalker backed off because it was afraid of an awake, alert Alice, or recognised she would interfere. And that's why it followed them and struck when Alice was fast asleep. Or maybe it was an awake and alert Gavia that prevented it from taking the nanotech the first time. The first time it tried to touch Gavia her response was to go: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" and race into a nearby cave to hide. The second time, when Gavia was initially asleep, went much better for the Nightwalker.
BenRG:
Or maybe the first encounter was just a 'scan'. Perhaps the Night Walker had to relay its readings back to its current operators and wait for instructions on what to do next. It is possible that it didn't have much in the way of 'smart' and had no real ability to change its behaviour unless new instructions were uploaded to it.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 08 Jun 2016, 20:40 ---Maybe the first time the Nightwalker backed off because it was afraid of an awake, alert Alice, or recognised she would interfere. And that's why it followed them and struck when Alice was fast asleep. Or maybe it was an awake and alert Gavia that prevented it from taking the nanotech the first time. The first time it tried to touch Gavia her response was to go: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" and race into a nearby cave to hide. The second time, when Gavia was initially asleep, went much better for the Nightwalker.
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Perhaps, but what could Alice do even if she intervened? She wasn't entirely convinced she would survive rescuing Gavia the last time. And while it's possible that attacking Gavia while asleep would be the best way to avoid any countermeasures she might activate while conscious it could've attacked numerous other times while everyone was asleep, but didn't The Night Walker emerges on moonlit nights so it's not dependent on a full moon. Moreover, it attacked while Gavia was with two super powerful immortals which seems more risky.
Now maybe the Night Walker has some preset program where it seeks out possible nanotechnology and then strikes on a full moon or maybe it was under the control of someone or something.
Speculation is fun and I like to stake my claim on this crazy theory of mine before someone else does. The nanotechnology Gavia had made her powerful, but not enough to be any match for Alice. Perhaps this was by design. While Gavia wholeheartedly embraces technological enhancement it might be possible some of what was implanted on her actually inhibited her natural abilities. Maybe after years of experimentation the Praeses figured out how to duplicate the creation of people like Alice and Sedna, but needed a test subject, Gavia. She could've been engineered from birth to be just like Alice and Sedna, but never know her true power because the nanotechnology inhibited the super strength. This might explain how she could recover so quickly from her ordeal and seems to be a fast learner in survival skills. What other purpose would the Praeses have for sending her? They could have forbid her to go and it's likely that she would have heeded their decision, but they allowed her to pursue Ardent and then marooned her too. Their scheme could be two fold. They send Ardent to cause problems with his ability to upgrade technology and they send Gavia as their prototype super soldier. Either by accident or design the Night Walker removes Gavia's inhibitors and she becomes stronger and invulnerable. Now unless she has some kind of sleeper programming she's not likely to turn on Alice or Sedna, but she doesn't have to because if she's a successful copy of whatever process created the immortals then they could send hundreds of people designed as human weapons, deactivate their inhibitors, and overwhelm the few people who would object. Moreover, these soldiers would be indoctrinated since birth to obey them so they would never have to fear a mutiny and once they subdued anyone who challenged their plans they would happily return to being enhanced humans without superpowers.
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