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Alice Grove MCDLT - February 2017
derech:
Perhaps where this nearest Praeses is happens to be is in a place where it wasn't visible to them from where they were on Earth. Maybe it's visible to someone? Depending on how populated the planet is. Unless of course there's some sort of field around Praeses that shields from view past a certain distance. Right, probably just easier to chalk up the presentation of things to artistic license.
Gavia's look is somewhat confusing, maybe she's never been outside looking in though. Ardent seems happy, to see it and that his command worked (with another teleport?). Sedna is surprised with a sort of wonder, maybe the simple life is too familiar after so long. And, Pate's nearly terrified. He seems to rather keep demonstrating how little he actually knows in detail about anything, his information sources incomplete and lacking, not plain, clear and illustrative. Oh, where are Alice and Church, maybe that's not important.
One might imagine that if those who imparted these tech abilities in Ardent might have had something very far more grand in mind then just long-term interference, subterfuge of things like water pumps in that one town spreading out to corrupt the local folk, given what we've seen from these abilities. Perhaps the point was providing extremely advanced tech that might be used for (or was certainly going to be used for) what's going on now with them getting here. Whoever it is they want for whatever reason. What might the Praeses know about those planetside? Something new in the works? Random chance? Either way, if they have the ability to create things that give abilities to Ardent that allow the things he's been doing, they likely then aren't going to be something that Pate can control or bully or even impact at all, maybe that's what he's learning fast.
The king of ant-town might be mighty in his own realm, lord of all he surveys and more. Yet all of his best and worst legions of troops would find themselves quite unable to even get to the Balaenoptera musculus, much less harm or defeat them. Ooops. Laser to the moon.
brasca:
--- Quote from: derech on 21 Feb 2017, 11:51 ---One might imagine that if those who imparted these tech abilities in Ardent might have had something very far more grand in mind then just long-term interference, subterfuge of things like water pumps in that one town spreading out to corrupt the local folk, given what we've seen from these abilities. Perhaps the point was providing extremely advanced tech that might be used for (or was certainly going to be used for) what's going on now with them getting here. Whoever it is they want for whatever reason. What might the Praeses know about those planetside? Something new in the works? Random chance? Either way, if they have the ability to create things that give abilities to Ardent that allow the things he's been doing, they likely then aren't going to be something that Pate can control or bully or even impact at all, maybe that's what he's learning fast.
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Considering all the fantastic possibilities demonstrated by Ardent's ability I'd find it hard to believe that the Praeses couldn't monitor its use. They probably know that he turned an ancient space fighter into a teleporting bubble ship and can shut it down at any time it becomes a problem for them. It's still unclear as to what their scheme is, but most likely they wanted to get those that would oppose their invasion of Earth out of the way. Pate may be an exception. If he's smart he'll accept their offer to be an exalted middle man since I doubt he's going to get anything better. Given his expression I think he's so in awe of what he sees he might just forget to throw his weight around and readily agree without the Praeses providing a demonstration that would probably be aimed at Church.
Kugai:
It will be intersting to see hat happens after they ENTer the Habitat.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: brasca on 21 Feb 2017, 14:15 ---Considering all the fantastic possibilities demonstrated by Ardent's ability I'd find it hard to believe that the Praeses couldn't monitor its use. They probably know that he turned an ancient space fighter into a teleporting bubble ship and can shut it down at any time it becomes a problem for them. It's still unclear as to what their scheme is, but most likely they wanted to get those that would oppose their invasion of Earth out of the way. Pate may be an exception. If he's smart he'll accept their offer to be an exalted middle man since I doubt he's going to get anything better. Given his expression I think he's so in awe of what he sees he might just forget to throw his weight around and readily agree without the Praeses providing a demonstration that would probably be aimed at Church.
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Why would they offer Pate anything? His only leverage is Church, and it's not clear how much that means in this context. I could see them pushing Church out into space to flail aimlessly as he floats in orbit. At which point Pate is all alone up against a pair of pissed-off immortals whose friend he had murdered.
I'm guessing the whole point of Operation Blue Boy was to collect Alice and bring her up to the orbitals. Maybe Sedna too, but it's hard to see how they could have foreseen that. Pate is probably just an extra baseline human they have no use for. Church might be a bit of a bonus, provided they don't end up having to space him.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 21 Feb 2017, 19:49 ---Why would they offer Pate anything?
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Because he offers them something that they want: Political power on the planet's surface without having to go through the effort and expense of conquering anything as an initial step.
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