: Could this "chance discovery" really be the coverup of a few
: suggestions or hints made the Jjaro who stopped by to pick our the
: dreaming god? There appear to be possible theories to go with this idea.
: Either: 1) The Jjaro gave the tech and knowledge to humanity for them to
: implement, the knowledge of which was covered up for most of a century,
: or...
: 2) The coding principles the Jjaro gave us to set the whole Durandel rampancy
: into motion could not be acted upon for a hundred years because human
: technology was no advanced enough.
: I favor the second.
: I mean, honestly, human technology pales horribly in comparison to that of
: every alien race we encounter in this series. How could our programmers
: still be so superior to that of our enemies that we could create Rampancy
: on our own?
: So, the Jjaro leave us the plans, which we interpret a hundred years later,
: once our technology catches up somewhat, into AI's capable of rampancy. I
: wonder if they just happened to leave a few hints about reanimating fallen
: warriors as well.
: Of course, Durandel, and therefore the other AI's and the Phfor and S'Pht
: knew nothing of this, since the government would keep it as secret as
: possible. Durandel apparently even knew nothing of the earlier appearance
: of the Jjaro, although I assume that could be argued.
: Just an idea ;-)
It's certainly possible. The Jjaro could also have left technological artifacts on our moon, as they did on many others according to Tycho. The "chance discovery" would then be an archaeological one.
If you're inclined to follow the Eddings=Marine theory, his Jjaro tech would have perhaps been provided covertly by Ryu'Toth...though if you extend that and take the "I have been Achilles, Beowulf, Gilgamesh," bit semi-literally, the Marine may have gotten his tech back in the infancy of the human race.
--SiliconDream
--SiliconDream
