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	Message: : How is this meant to be a constructive reply? Everything in the tone of your : response tries to shut down an attempt at reasoned speculation (which this : forum is about). : It's easy to default to the idea that "Durandal was Angry Rampant and : just happened to call a high-tech Alien ship with the FTL that he needed : and just happened to be crewed by a race that had a clan that mysteriously : vanished a whole moon using a technology that folded space that Durandal : needed to escape the end of the universe to become God", but think of : the number of things that could have gone wrong or which needed to work : out for Durandal - : 1. The alien ship could have been insufficiently high-tech for Durandal to : use and might have turned out to be more of a liability - what if they : just blew up the Marathon instead of trying to invade it and enslave the : humans aboard? Durandal's plans would be toast instantly. : 2. The compilers' existence and the myth of the vanishing moon were all too : convenient. Why did they even bother talking to Durandal and telling them : about this myth? How did Durandal know that they had something to offer : him? Tycho was being assimilated and Leela being under heavy attack from : the compilers, with her child nodes being taken down and not being : prepared for such attacks (look at the dialogue on the story page for : Tycho and Leela). Only Durandal, who sneakily escaped the initial EMP : pulse with less damage than expected, was able to even negotiate with the : compilers. : 3. Just what was in the pulse laser beam that Durandal sent to the Pfhor : ship? Was it meant for the Pfhor or was it meant for the Compilers ? Is : that why they didn't attack him so viciously in the first place? : 4. The myth of the vanishing moon is hardly the kind of thing that one would : bring up in the midst of an invasion + planned slave revolt. How did : Durandal know exactly which slaves of the Pfhor would be most useful to : his ultimate interests? : If Bernard Strauss had previous knowledge of the Jjaro's presence at Tau Ceti : (The "Jjaro were at Tau Ceti" message that only a map editor can : reveal) and somehow knew of space-folding technology (from the previous : Jjaro visit to earth in 1996 or another Jjaro/S'Pht visit in the past - : heck, Mark IV battleroids like the security officer implicitly use Jjaro : tech that humans don't understand) it would explain why MIDA didn't try to : take over the Marathon during the final stages of its completion over : Mars. Strauss wanted to recover the Jjaro technology for himself and use : Durandal as a tool for it like he'd done so on Mars- Durandal, privy to : knowledge that would make him God and fed up of Strauss's abuse on Mars, : decided to take things into his own hands. : In another game, it would be easy for things to "just happen", but : as Leela herself says, there are many things we don't know and which we : may never know about the Marathon story. That doesn't stop us from : thinking of the broader scope of a very well planned and executed story? : VikingBoyBilly, I remain vexed at the idea that I was trolling with my : previous post. If you do reply to this post, I expect you to provide a far : more constructive reply and answers to these questions, plus a ddetailed : counterpoint to the Strauss-Durandal scenario I've outlined above. If you : think this is a "trollpost" for reasons I can't quite fathom, I : advise you to follow the ancient advice "don't feed the troll" : and don't reply to me, and let someone else with an actual interest in : revisiting old speculation to engage with me instead.
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