9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
Jeremy Haas, cosmologist. Creator of the Haas Deep Space observatory. One of the members of the original Crystal One development team with Clarence Gage,Edgar, Kathleen Adair, and James Thalim.
Kathleen Adair, Theoretical Physicist and childhood friend of Hakon BlackAxe. Best friend of Clarence Gage, and primary member of the Crystal One team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
I recognize the references to the Khurshid, and to Nin-Banda of the Meskalamdug Family, once known as The Scientist. The implication that Nina was IN the Tower when she turned the Utility Fog on all the researchers, is interesting. But then, looking back, didn’t the Khurshid build the Towers? She might have been right at home in there.
Ah! Jazz! . . . So, the Tower sees her as seeing them and running, screaming. They see her as inventing her own microprocessor, fabbing her own tools, making damn sure that SHE controls the machines she uses, out of fear. Of them. Of the Tower technology that people started using because it was good, and simpler than figuring things out themselves.
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But the third and fourth references escape me.
Or am I reading too much into this?