Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2013.08.10 16:01:00 -
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CCP Logibro wrote:That's a very good question. Do clones dream? What do they dream of? Do they dream of their past? Are their pasts even their own anymore? Do they dream of death? Of untold amounts of blood spilled across a hundred thousand battlefields? Is this carnage they have caused even considered their own anymore, or is it ascribed to another? Are they really who they started as, or just another entity born into the state of something that came before them? Who's life do they live now? Can what they live now even be called a life? Are they merely a shadow of their former selves, with something irrevocably lost with each death? Oh clones. You give us such wonderful themes to play with. 
A child's voice echoed in the darkness of his thoughts.
"Dad, when we die - is it like dreaming for a really long time?"
As they approach the scorched wasteland that had been ravaged by countless skirmishes in an overarching war, the soft scent of Amarrian Wheat filled his nostrils; though he couldn't place it. At first he considered something was awry with his implants, or perhaps the filtration system of his suit. The smell was soon overlapped as his other senses took over - the pattering of air-burst weaponry firing off all around.
He glanced to his comrades, curious as to whether they too had felt the tinge of anxiety that welled in his stomach. Much to his dismay they were silent and motionless. Each stared with an eerily calm demeanor at one another through the lit view screen of their helmets.
Consideration toward the plausibility that maybe, just maybe, he wasn't who he thought he was. A decade ago he was a simple man who was providing for his family but... Who were they, really? He could barely recall the faces of his loved ones, shrouded in a haze of his own amnesia that came from time - not disorder. If he could not remember his family than perhaps he could remember why he fought but alas he could not. Was it for currency? Was it for freedom or liberty? Was it for spiritual conquest or perhaps... Something else?
The door opened and his comrades rushed away at the very instant the vehicle came to a grinding, whirring halt. Small arms lit the chassis and several of his friends fell... But were they his friends..? His mind, clouded with confusion was soon met with overwhelming pain as he found himself staring at the sky and rolling his head side-wards to display the grim sight of his lower half beside him before all was dark...
... and awoken again to row after row, column after column of his brothers. All looking exactly alike, all exactly like him. He glanced to his hands with narrowed eyes and thought to himself:
"Dad, when we die - is it like dreaming for a really long time?"
"No." |
Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2013.08.11 19:58:00 -
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Aikuchi Tomaru wrote:CCP Logibro wrote:That's a very good question. Do clones dream? What do they dream of? Do they dream of their past? Are their pasts even their own anymore? Do they dream of death? Of untold amounts of blood spilled across a hundred thousand battlefields? Is this carnage they have caused even considered their own anymore, or is it ascribed to another? Are they really who they started as, or just another entity born into the state of something that came before them? Who's life do they live now? Can what they live now even be called a life? Are they merely a shadow of their former selves, with something irrevocably lost with each death? Oh clones. You give us such wonderful themes to play with. This reminds me of a question we had in corp chat a while ago: If a female merc wants an abortion. Does she just kill herself? I think this is a very important question about Eve lore which should be answered.
Lol - Pro-Life mercs would be the funniest **** ever. |