AdmiralJohn
The Unknown Bar and Pub Elysium Alliance
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Posted - 2010.02.17 03:36:00 -
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I think the above poster is on the right trail, but is thinking too literally.
Emergent ideologies
I think the key term here is "emergent". The reference to complexities stemming from simple interactions probably relates to the wormhole systems, which were intentional. I say they are intentional from a small reference in this chronicle:
Quote: Nor could they know that the ancient race which had placed them there possessed not only a vision beyond the grasp of today's science, but also the technological advancement necessary to realize its potential.
which references the isogen deposits. Likely, they were studying the pattern of wormholes that such a reaction would create.
Talocan and Sleepers
Judging by how the sites are often found mixed together, I surmise that the two races were cooperating on this project. The Talocan were likely developing the methods to make a passage to Earth feasable (via instigating a Eve-type wormhole) and the Sleepers developing a "sleeper ship" to facilitate moving an entire colony of people. This leads to the next point:
Medical Stuff
I think the medical parts represent not a hospital so much as an "assembly line". Talocan / Sleeper colonists are put into cryo via Sleeper technology, and the third largest building is where the cryo-ed colonists are kept until the sleeper ship departs for Earth.
The Other Stuff
De-animation is research into reanimating people from the sleeper ship. The other things play into that.
The Journey
My opinion is that the Talocans could only approximate the location of their super-wormhole, hence the creation of the sleeper ship. The colonists on the ship would all be in cryo, so evidently an advanced AI would be needed to deal with any dangers that were encountered back in the Milky Way. They devolved the systems to the point of near-sentience, so that it could adapt and protect the colonists on the journey. The interstellar task force was designed to do the scouting of the Milky Way / wherever the ship(s) landed.
Why Quarantine?
I don't think the quarantine was to protect the outside from whatever was at the sites. Much as astronauts today are quarantined before going into space to prevent sickness in close spaces, the colonists were sequestered from the outside during cryo so as to prevent a disease from making its way onto the sleeper ship.
All in all, this is just a wild guess. However, I feel that this properly ties together all the threads, and appeals to my sense of adventure at the same time
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