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Ghost Hunter
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Posted - 2010.05.07 02:01:00 -
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One thing that has bugged me since the creation of W-Space is the Sleepers.
In simplest terms, why did you pick 'reviving' an ancient race to fill up this new area of EVE instead of the Rogue Drones? Both factions seem to largely be the exact same thing, the only difference is that the Sleepers are hyper-advanced and lack any hard data on their exact nature.
It bugs me because it would have been a great opportunity to blow open new items on the Rogue Drones, pushing them forward in plot advancement and evolving their concept. Instead, as far as my time in Wormhole Space has taught me, there are the Sleepers and ... woo, nothing. Rogue Drones are still pretty much "durp we're bees".
Can you offer any word on this to put my mind to ease?
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Ghost Hunter
Kinetic Vector
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Posted - 2010.05.07 06:06:00 -
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Edited by: Ghost Hunter on 07/05/2010 06:06:10
Dropbear youuuu youuuu this.
I'm glad to see there is purposeful intent behind all of wormhole space and it simply wasn't shoe-horned in, as it were. There's a huge motivational difference in grasping at straws thinking there's a big plan - and then knowing there is one.
I do believe I'll dust off the old bits and pieces I have saved away for some studying.
Cheers, Dropbear. ;D
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The Seven Events of the Apocalypse
The fourth event is described by Macaper as ôthe appetite of nothing expands over the worldö; |
Ghost Hunter
True Slave Foundations
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Posted - 2010.07.11 22:52:00 -
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 Originally by: Abrazzar
Maybe the isogen-5 was used as catalyst to use the aligned stars for kick-starting the wormhole travel network created once by the sleepers and been failing due to neglect.
Also reading about the emergent stuff and VR and neural interfacing of the sleepers, I was thinking if it could have been that they connected their minds and the whole civilization in a direct manner and out of this connection patterns emerged that developed into sentient entities of their own. And the 'plague' was not so much a virus but emerging entities that took up a life of their own, threatening the Sleeper civilization on a level they themself did not yet understand. The Quarantines were established as attempts to isolate and categorize the different entities emerging and to avoid spreading of them to the "unbound" population.
If not entirely likely, I think it's still a interesting thought. A new sentient entity emerging out of the connection of sentient minds as a separate entity of higher magnitude with it's own personality, will and intentions. Not really like a hive mind but like a brain using brains as neurons and the VR-network and interfacing as neural connections.
The Sleeper drones had their capacity for sentience limited to avoid the spontaneous emergence of sentience and personality that could possibly render them useless as guardians or even cause insanity during their millennium long duty.
Rogue Drones seem to have made that leap from semi-intelligent autonomous entities to sentient entities. So if there's a source for research on free emergent AI, the Drone Regions would be the place.
I believe this is the concept your post seems in line with
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