Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2017
Neko_Ali:
I think Kane would have disagreed with that assessment.... And I'm sure Ash would have found a way to get it on board anyway.
Case:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 25 Jun 2017, 14:06 ---No great surprise: Gavia and Ardent have become 'contaminated' by going to Earth and are exiled for life. All for daring to be something other than what the Praeses have decided for them (ironically, in Gavia's case, to protect them).
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In a relatively closed system like a space habitat, unknown foreign elements are a legitimate risk to the entire system. It isn't a matter of prejudice or arbitrary authority, it is a serious security concern.
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Yes too many sci-fi series gloss over quarantines which would be a necessary procedure when traveling to worlds with potentially dangerous microbes, diseases, and viruses. Hopefully the decontamination process isn't too painful.
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There's a nice variation on that idea in one of the The Expanse-novels - though the first actual alien/human 'infection' is a water-based microbe (smth. like an Euglena) discovering its penchant for the glassy body of the human eye, rendering the human in question blind in the process due to refraction off the bodies of the microbes, so it's less an actual infection than merely a physical intrusion (the microbe doesn't do anything to the tissues in the eye, it just multiplies happily & exponentially in an environment sans predators). An alien biosphere is unlikely to run on terrestrial DNA (so it wouldn't know how to use us as replicators), unlikely even to use the same chemistry - but at the same time, if an alien microbe can tolerate the environment in our bodies, from its POV we're large, pristine habitats without any of selection pressures that normally keep it in check.
The idea is that most likely, infecting us would be like trying to eat tar, or a brick of frozen gasoline - but some form of life is certain to discover a use for almost anything. Maybe we'd end up being the fuel for the barbecue rather than the steak.
retrosteve:
So summing up:
1. The Praesides have security concerns, they know what the humaniforms are and are not stupid
2. They DON'T know (or admit to knowing) how Ardent got his 'upgrade' mojo, or how he got sent to Earth, but they certainly know about it.
I'm going to assume the Praesides are being honest here, and they really don't know. Which means Alice is wrong about them, and I'm right about there being another player who hasn't announced himself yet. I'm still guessing he's the AI (or group of them) who caused the Blink. Bob. And things won't proceed much further until we know who and why.
JimC:
Discontinuity is an interesting word to use for Ardent's upgrade capability isn't it? I wonder what's behind that.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: JimC on 29 Jun 2017, 09:39 ---Discontinuity is an interesting word to use for Ardent's upgrade capability isn't it? I wonder what's behind that.
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Space magic?
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