: I think we have to take that as at least somewhat exaggerated--it seems
: improbable that a fully functional Durandal was dug out of a Jjaro
: installation or somesuch and put to work opening doors on the Marathon.
: (Even if he was, he wouldn't remember, since his records got wiped and
: Leela scrambled all her historical info). More likely, Durandal considers
: his Rampancy to mark the start of his true existence.
: "The chance discovery that made my rampancy possible" is an
: interesting phrase. We're told in Marathon that the first Rampancies were
: "discovered," not designed or engineered. So here we see that
: humans happened to discover something which in turn had the unforeseen
: side effect of causing Rampancy.
Not nessecaily. I always thought of the chanve discovery as the leap to a self aware AI. While I always thought Leela was self aware, she did what the humans asked, because, well, she was a good AI. Its mearly the side effect of sentience that not all AIs would to what humans told them to do.
: I have considered it, like many before me. ;-) It could refer to the Jjaro
: component in the AIs...or to the Jjaro component in the cyborg(s)...or to
: long-ago Jjaro outposts in the system...or God knows what. I've never seen
: a clincher argument for any interpretation, but I'd love to hear a new one
: if you've got it. :-)
: --SiliconDream
