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.
So, the uploaded folks from long ago are being downloaded into the current day victims of the plague before they die?
Are any of the current day victims being uploaded?
Sounds like it will be over in 18 hours. How long is that in comic days?
Also sounds like this tower is not “in the know” with what is going on. Or they know something and haven’t shared it. Could ol’ dead eyes be in control of Erech and Greenvale towers?
They can’t stop it right now, and every moment they waste freaking out over something they can’t stop is time they then don’t have to deal with the things they can stop.
The one thing this arc has done is humanize the Towers and their motivations. Time will tell if this is a good or bad thing in a narrative sense. I personally liked the sense we previously had of Towers as these vast near-inscrutable things with alien, possibly incomprehensible motives.
Now we can reasonably assess the morality of Erech Tower’s actions. Downloading innocent people into bodies dying horribly seems perversely cruel, but life on the astral plane or wherever these uploaded consciousnesses were kept wasn’t a barrel of laughs either. And they are freed from their previous containment.
Originally, there were two possibilities debated that could stop the decay of the fabric of existence (FoE): massive death (3+ billion) and removing the stored consiousnesses from the FoE. Seems these two are now being combined… it just might work.
Are any of the current day victims being uploaded?
Sounds like it will be over in 18 hours. How long is that in comic days?
Also sounds like this tower is not “in the know” with what is going on. Or they know something and haven’t shared it. Could ol’ dead eyes be in control of Erech and Greenvale towers?
So many questions, so little time!
They can’t stop it right now, and every moment they waste freaking out over something they can’t stop is time they then don’t have to deal with the things they can stop.
Now we can reasonably assess the morality of Erech Tower’s actions. Downloading innocent people into bodies dying horribly seems perversely cruel, but life on the astral plane or wherever these uploaded consciousnesses were kept wasn’t a barrel of laughs either. And they are freed from their previous containment.