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   Francisco

   June 17, 2010, 5:00 am | # | Reply

   That leaves the question open of whether either Amena was “real”?

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     ken

     June 17, 2010, 9:44 am | # | Reply

     If they are exact duplicates, does it matter? Personally, I want to know: why? Answer that, and you know the rest of this little mystery.

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   Mike

   June 17, 2010, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

   So the spiders can be considered *properly* hostile…
   Wouldn’t it be a good idea to tell the others that?

   I’d also ask the “why” question… If the two Amenas were truly exact duplicates, what would be the point? Why infiltrate an Amena into society if it had no purpose other than to be Amena? One of them had to know or behave in *some* way different. And then that behaviour is presumably at someone’s behest.

   I guess that makes it the “who” that I’m really interested in.

   So many questions. Such a little comment box.

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     Francisco

     June 18, 2010, 1:53 am | # | Reply

     The team already know that the spiders are security robots so know that they could be attacked if the tower doesn’t want them to go any further. The only new information is what they may do if you find out how it works.

     However, the interesting bit, given the next strip, is that they seem to have kept the real Amena (instead of just killing her). That implies that they could see a day when her knowledge of them would be needed.

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