Shepard believed it (everything, basically) was a rogue AI. It doesn't not make sense.
I don't know much of anything about the Cyllene, but what I've heard about Strela is that it already featured some sort of hivemind/assimilation situation when we arrived.
But I agree, the disruption/disconnect in space and time seems to be a pattern and one that makes sense given that the jumps are apparently uncontrolled and are literally pulling each of us here from across space and time. Smiley had described Laurens to me as "stuck" and he seemed to be somehow literally in between floors here. I suspect that in his case we're dealing less with in between living and dead and something more like in between universes/realities? But Smiley did also say that Laurens was different, from "him"self, from Charlotte, from us.
The soldier had a conversation with Charlotte in which she talked about being "sent back" and the idea that we had somehow brought her here. I don't think that just meant sent back to the crew quarters, I think given the absence of the entire rest of the crew we may have taken her somehow across dimensions or times. Some of the ghost-like phenomena we've experienced, even the less-personalized paintings, the pockets of effects, might be the result of realities overlapping. Maybe the corridors shift each jump because each jump it's a different universe's version of the ship in that space.
I don't know what any of this really tells us.
Since we're having this conversation about all of these things I've decided I'm just going to tell you: your fingerprints were found in the nanite management control room, on the vial of corrupted nanites that poisoned us all whichever jump that was. I don't believe that you did that consciously or on purpose or maybe even at all, but we've yet to figure out an explanation. It may be another example of mind control? Another version of you on another TQ? Mystique mind controlled and in your form? I don't know. I'm just dropping it into this giant pile of weird shit we're fumbling through.
I'd like to put a tracker on Laurens like a house arrest ankle bracelet sort of deal, but I don't know how effective it would be and if he would allow it. Besides that my instinct would just be to announce his presence and leave it at that.
My real question is whether we tell people what you found in his head.
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I don't know much of anything about the Cyllene, but what I've heard about Strela is that it already featured some sort of hivemind/assimilation situation when we arrived.
But I agree, the disruption/disconnect in space and time seems to be a pattern and one that makes sense given that the jumps are apparently uncontrolled and are literally pulling each of us here from across space and time. Smiley had described Laurens to me as "stuck" and he seemed to be somehow literally in between floors here. I suspect that in his case we're dealing less with in between living and dead and something more like in between universes/realities? But Smiley did also say that Laurens was different, from "him"self, from Charlotte, from us.
The soldier had a conversation with Charlotte in which she talked about being "sent back" and the idea that we had somehow brought her here. I don't think that just meant sent back to the crew quarters, I think given the absence of the entire rest of the crew we may have taken her somehow across dimensions or times. Some of the ghost-like phenomena we've experienced, even the less-personalized paintings, the pockets of effects, might be the result of realities overlapping. Maybe the corridors shift each jump because each jump it's a different universe's version of the ship in that space.
I don't know what any of this really tells us.
Since we're having this conversation about all of these things I've decided I'm just going to tell you: your fingerprints were found in the nanite management control room, on the vial of corrupted nanites that poisoned us all whichever jump that was. I don't believe that you did that consciously or on purpose or maybe even at all, but we've yet to figure out an explanation. It may be another example of mind control? Another version of you on another TQ? Mystique mind controlled and in your form? I don't know. I'm just dropping it into this giant pile of weird shit we're fumbling through.
I'd like to put a tracker on Laurens like a house arrest ankle bracelet sort of deal, but I don't know how effective it would be and if he would allow it. Besides that my instinct would just be to announce his presence and leave it at that.
My real question is whether we tell people what you found in his head.