Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
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Posted - 2013.11.11 07:47:00 -
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Good speculation, however, you did not really explain what the 514 could actually mean from a lore perspective, which I have been trying to decipher ever since I started roleplaying here. And I do have to note that your speculation about the first immortal clones is a little confusing. Did you mean the first generation clones who were all Amarr Templars, or the Sleepers we originally extracted the implants from?
I'll also have to note that the bodies found on the trailer are Sleepers, and the facility the extraction team was in is in wormhole space, aka. Anoikis. The trailer implies that the team sent out into the Sleeper facility wasn't the first, or that they were aware of its existence before. They seemed to be looking specifically for clone storage pods(or whatever that thing the body was in is) and it wasn't the first they found because they said: "This one seems to be intact", and the fact that they were called an extraction team implies that they weren't the first there, or didn't stumble upon it randomly. I would speculate that Caldari or Amarr found some Sleeper record that pointed towards this facility which held some undescribed technology in clone storage pods that would change New Eden.
As for what 514 means, or why the first generation clones went insane in the first place?
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Reading the Stranded chronicles, and the last section from the Speaks and Walks chronicle reveal something crucial to us. The whole 514 disorder isn't actually gone. You see, in Stranded, some consciousness is talking to Balac in all the chronicles, telling him where to go and what to do, sometimes giving him cryptic proverbs and descriptions. I assume this consciousness is part of the Kilm'ach mentioned at the start of Stranded part 3, or a Sleeper in the very least. Then in the Speaks and Walks chronicle, there is a section that is most interesting:
Speaks and Walks wrote:Sometimes - in blessed, sacred moments - he is alone, part of nothing and beholden to no one. The rest of the time, he is living the life of some other being that inhabits him, with no solitude and nothing but a haze of constant motion, like a puppet being yanked on by its strings.
During his lucid moments, he feels like he's being wielded by some other creature, in battle and daily life. When he opens his mouth, he truly does not know whether the words that come out - if he can bring himself to speak at all - will make any sense to him. When he walks, he doesn't know whether he may turn, or stop, or fall to his knees. He is rapidly becoming useless, a weapon wielded only for show. At most he can move and blink and breathe - the rest of his existence belongs to a force that he does not understand.
His dreams are of other places, and incorporate memories he knows he did not used to have.
Then further on in the chronicle, there is a crucial line of text:
Speaks and Walks wrote:Those he encounters on a daily basis may ask him questions, and he will answer to the best of his ability, but for the most part he simply tries to do his job properly. Their voices are the only ones he hears; the one in his head is gone, at last.
I think that every single clone soldier has a Sleeper consciousness in them, which is causing this 514 disorder. It has not been eradicated as Sarum said, it has only become milder as new generations(Codex, Chromosome, Uprising etc.) have been created. I think that these implants have a Sleeper consciousness in them is because a long time ago, when Sleepers were still alive, something horrible happened, possibly a disease(not the Jovian disease, Sleepers splintered off the Jove long before that) and their whole race was in the verge of extinction. As a last ditch effort to continue their existence, they created the Sleeper implant was created, which allowed them to remain in a forever state of hibernation. All implants would be connected to each other, and the consciousnesses inhabiting them would live together as a hive mind of sorts, living in a virtual reality.
When the empires discovered these implants and started making them for their own use, the Sleeper consciousnesses were also transferred for these implants. The Sleepers had possibly discovered a way to reverse their condition, and saw the empires using these implants as an opportunity to possibly save their race. So they started guiding Balac, the Traveler to old Sleeper facilities which would be crucial to fixing the Sleeper condition. The Stranded chronicles were never finished, so I do not know what happened to Balac(CCP, get back to writing them!). Regardless, whatever happened to Balac, it was not enough and the Sleepers continued trying to guide people from the implants the empires were manufacturing. But with each new implant, the connection to the mercenary using it grew weaker, being only occasional voices in their heads, or flashes of things that the mercenaries had never experienced.
The blood-red skies, Sleeper virtual reality. Strange beings, Sleepers living in the virtual reality trying to establish contact with the clone soldiers. Number 514 is a little trickier, but I think it has something to do with this Sleeper condition. Perhaps 514 was the original amount of people who were affected by this condition, or perhaps it is the number of people who survived the condition and started living in the virtual reality.
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What do you think?
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier
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