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Alice Grove MCDLT - February 2017

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BenRG:
Just thought that this is an appropriate point for a little crystal-balling.

I'm really expecting Jeph to deliver a twist at this point. My guess is that Jasper Pate and the Praesees have been in communication, of sorts, for some time and that everything that has happened has been in order to manoeuvre events to get him to them. Why? Possibly they think that they can use him as an agent for their own objectives on Earth. Possibly they are naive and honestly think that he is an unselfish leader who can help them help the humans to find their way to a utopia. Or, possibly, they're smiling monsters and both Pate and the Praeses are already planning how to betray each other so they end up the lone top dog.

Whatever happens, I'm pretty sure that Pate is going to demand nanotech and gene therapy treatment to become immortal and have super-powers of sorts ("I left them a tyrant; I shall return to them a god!"). I also suspect that getting what he wants will turn out to be a punishment all of its own.

Finally, I'm wondering if Alice and Sedna will be taken away for 'humane disposal' (nasty, filthy super-soldiers have no place in utopia). Gavia and Ardent have to choose whether they want to live in utopia or if they want the scary but basically nice ladies to live.

Zebediah:
They get to space, and discover that there are no space habitats. There's no sign that there ever were any space habitats. Somebody blinked again.

FunkyTuba:
yeah, whoever did the blink didn't do such a great job if they're finding spacecraft and stuff buried. I'm wrestling with the idea that an Ardentified Valkyrie probably *requires* AI to run correctly if it's sufficiently advanced.

brasca:

--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 31 Jan 2017, 09:55 ---yeah, whoever did the blink didn't do such a great job if they're finding spacecraft and stuff buried. I'm wrestling with the idea that an Ardentified Valkyrie probably *requires* AI to run correctly if it's sufficiently advanced.

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Perhaps the bunkers were built in such a way that it and the contents inside were immune to the blink.  We still don't know who or what was behind the blink and maybe when it scanned the planet to edit everything the bunkers were shielded possibly by some sophisticated EMP generator or material.  As for the personnel inside they'd eventually have to forage for food and the the facilities were either abandoned and lost to history or plundered by the residents centuries ago and only a few remain unopened. 

jheartney:
Scenarios:

1. On takeoff, the Walker shows up, grabs the orbiter in flight and pulls it back to the ground. After the inhabitants get out, another THOOM and another new crater on the moon. The orbiter joins Gavia's nanotech in Alice Grove heaven.

2. On achieving orbit, the new craft is unable to connect with any orbital platform- both craft and orbitals repel each other. Back to Earth for another plan. Pate and Church are not in a good mood.

3. Once Ardent gets aboard the orbiter, it begins to continually evolve. By the time it reaches orbit, both orbiter and passengers have been absorbed into a new, sentient being with godlike powers. Including time travel. In this way we learn who did the Blink.

4. As soon as the orbiter gets in among the orbital platforms, it begins shooting them apart one after another. We then pull back to discover that the Earth is just part of a giant game of Asteroids being played by aliens.

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