Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - September 2016
BenRG:
Purely FWIW, I have always assumed that the post-Blink division is that the militant/absolutist wings of both factions are in space (in differing orbital inclinations, making it hard to get at each other) and the pacific/neutral groups are on Earth.
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Just cleared up a key point - The architects of the Blink probably acted to keep the two factions' militant wings from being able to easily attack each other.
I also wonder if they may have since merged into a single ultra-high-tech faction, five millennia having made them forget their differences and embrace their similarities (which is why Gavia and Ardent are both biomodified and nanotech-enhanced).
brasca:
--- Quote from: Pogopotamus on 18 Sep 2016, 19:44 ---If, per his comments, Pate "knows" about Alice and how old she is and that she's a non-human lifeform then isn't it pretty much a given that big guy knows also? If that's the case I'm not seeing how her stealthy disable+run exit plan is going to play out because it's (or was) based on them seeing her as harmless. Per Pate's comments she is clearly understood to be a powerful old-tech entity and big guy will be watching her (and assumedly Sedna's) every move.
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Sedna could be the wildcard since other that the archaeophiles she doesn't have much interaction with people and certainly isn't the leader of a village like Alice. However, she's still no match for the big guy as Alice estimates so at best she might complicate Pate's plans and could possibly take Ardent and Gavia with her if they target Alice and dismiss Sedna as just a travelling companion.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Sep 2016, 02:41 ---Purely FWIW, I have always assumed that the post-Blink division is that the militant/absolutist wings of both factions are in space (in differing orbital inclinations, making it hard to get at them) and the pacific/neutral groups are on Earth.
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Never thought of it that way. As such there could be a third faction in all this that we have yet to meet. I'm still not sure what faction Ardent and Gavia are descended from, but leaning towards the technological faction striving to recreate artificial intelligence, but not opposed to biological enhancement.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: brasca on 19 Sep 2016, 03:47 ---As such there could be a third faction in all this that we have yet to meet.
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I've said this before but it deserves repeating - I suspect that the missing sentient AIs may be the third faction. I'm wondering if the bioengineered sentient AIs (the Praeses) and the synthetic sentient AIs (the Blink Archetects?) are still pursuing their creators ancient feud with the Earthbound purestrain humans, both factions' long-abandoned super-soldiers and the spacebourne post-humans caught in the middle.
Could this end with a Babylon 5-like "Leave us the hell alone!" speech from Alice?
Kugai:
But who are the Vorlons and who are the Shadows
And will it turn out that tall and silent is Lorien?
hedgie:
The older races have already left the galaxy after some guy started yelling at them.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tj4qfe9afs
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