: Stop me if you've heard this one...
: Sure I must have seen this before, but it seems new now. It's that phrase
: that really jumps off the page. Of course, elephants make a lot of sense
: historically, but I can't help thinking about the spring and the PID
: connection.
: 'Successful raids' and 'remained unmolested' suggests to me that the
: controller of these monsters was a member of this group of immortals.
: Immortals who sent someone to this spring every 7 years. A spring which,
: in the alternate PID story, was inside a temple filled with weird and
: frightening monsters. What sort of person could put these things 'under
: his control', I don't know.
: What's more, if there is a Bernhard Strauss connection, then we have a man
: who was part of a secret cult of immortals with access to a Jjarro(?)
: temple, a man with knowledge of a group of cyborgs integrated into the
: Marathon population who were enhanced using Jjarro technology. Aboard a
: ship that is invaded by the slavers of the S'pht (worshipers of the Jjaro?
: children of them?) when Bernhard's pet artificial intelligence sends out a
: signal to lure them to the Marathon.
: How much coincidence is too much?
Man, if Strauss was that old, it's no wonder Durandal put "Make sure he's dead" high on the priorities.
Not saying he is, but...
