08-27-2025, 05:12 PM
"why is it taking so long"
My idea is that it's because Earth hasn't reached the needed level of technology yet, so they're stalling while they try to reach that point. Would you be able to fix a phone if you were stuck in the 17th century?
ooooh, good point. so i guess Jeremiah et al was cobbling together whatever they could, from whatever they had, and possibly spawning new industries as they went. but after a couple of hundred years with no progress, the Backtrackers started to splinter, some got drawn in by EVER (or started EVER? Soren and Isaiah as I recall, although we know that Isaiah eventually defected from EVER and ended up brainwiped) and really only Xavier and Jeremiah seems to be adhering to the original mission. Although honestly, it sounds more and more like Xavier is also wavering a bit, or at least has re-thunk his strategy now that he has the girlfriend in-hand.
"is that were the Tree Of Life stands?"
Can't say much, but you'll see another place that corresponds to the description.
noted. watch out for future 'convergence point' mentions.
"Xavier has no interest in the state of the spaceship."
Which is odd, considering how he also told (in the main story? I think?) Jer that he was going to bring everyone back home.
Yeah, that was in the revelations of Chapter 8, when a whole bunch of stuff was suddenly revealed in and around the flower shop section. Options:
-- Xavier gave up initially but then was re-invigorated by the time Chapter 8 rolled around and he had the girlfriend in arm's reach
-- Xavier has thought of a new plan that he hasn't clued Jeremiah in on yet, one that doesn't involve spaceship repair
-- Xavier has in fact given up but doesn't want Jeremiah to know (or any other Backtracker who's still loyal to the mission) so he's lying in Chapter 8
I don't believe that Xavier can give up the mission, assuming that mission is to yank the entire option away from the creation of Philos / the destruction of Earth. his entire being is focused on saving the girlfriend from that horrible destiny of sacrifice that will descend upon her if Philos is created, but that also clashes with what he tells Jeremiah about how he will make sure he gets them all home.
So you can't go home to a home that doesn't exist, therefore Philos MUST come into being in some manner. But he has some sort of plan to keep the girlfriend safe, regardless?
The more I think about this specific plot point, the more tangled it seems. Unless his promise to get everyone home was a lie, then that sort of collapses that down a little bit.
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i find it so funny when i read my stuff afterwards how many spelling mistakes and dropped sentence fragments i have. i guess the mind-to-typing-fingers connection is spotty at best.
My idea is that it's because Earth hasn't reached the needed level of technology yet, so they're stalling while they try to reach that point. Would you be able to fix a phone if you were stuck in the 17th century?
ooooh, good point. so i guess Jeremiah et al was cobbling together whatever they could, from whatever they had, and possibly spawning new industries as they went. but after a couple of hundred years with no progress, the Backtrackers started to splinter, some got drawn in by EVER (or started EVER? Soren and Isaiah as I recall, although we know that Isaiah eventually defected from EVER and ended up brainwiped) and really only Xavier and Jeremiah seems to be adhering to the original mission. Although honestly, it sounds more and more like Xavier is also wavering a bit, or at least has re-thunk his strategy now that he has the girlfriend in-hand.
"is that were the Tree Of Life stands?"
Can't say much, but you'll see another place that corresponds to the description.
noted. watch out for future 'convergence point' mentions.
"Xavier has no interest in the state of the spaceship."
Which is odd, considering how he also told (in the main story? I think?) Jer that he was going to bring everyone back home.
Yeah, that was in the revelations of Chapter 8, when a whole bunch of stuff was suddenly revealed in and around the flower shop section. Options:
-- Xavier gave up initially but then was re-invigorated by the time Chapter 8 rolled around and he had the girlfriend in arm's reach
-- Xavier has thought of a new plan that he hasn't clued Jeremiah in on yet, one that doesn't involve spaceship repair
-- Xavier has in fact given up but doesn't want Jeremiah to know (or any other Backtracker who's still loyal to the mission) so he's lying in Chapter 8
I don't believe that Xavier can give up the mission, assuming that mission is to yank the entire option away from the creation of Philos / the destruction of Earth. his entire being is focused on saving the girlfriend from that horrible destiny of sacrifice that will descend upon her if Philos is created, but that also clashes with what he tells Jeremiah about how he will make sure he gets them all home.
So you can't go home to a home that doesn't exist, therefore Philos MUST come into being in some manner. But he has some sort of plan to keep the girlfriend safe, regardless?
The more I think about this specific plot point, the more tangled it seems. Unless his promise to get everyone home was a lie, then that sort of collapses that down a little bit.
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i find it so funny when i read my stuff afterwards how many spelling mistakes and dropped sentence fragments i have. i guess the mind-to-typing-fingers connection is spotty at best.
