Official HFQ Snippet #24

n7axw wrote:Well, that was interesting, wasn't it?

I'll start off by noting that Sandaria's shock is starting to wear off. And while she is not out of the woods, she seems to be reacting in a thoughtful rather than a hostile way. It's stll too early to predict how it will come out for her, I find myself feeling a bit more opptimistic....

I suppose the big surprise for me was the discussion about the memories being surpressed and then surplanted rather than being erased. It does make sense, but I admit I didn't see it coming...

Poor Khody, the poor guy didn't stand a chance, did he? The command crew fashioned him into a tool they used up and then when he turned up defective, threw him away... I wonder how many other seijin got the same treatment. Except for the foresight of that first Mother Superior who moved the tomb and preserved the journal, his story would have been forever lost.
It makes me a bit angry, but I can't say I'm overly surprised by that.

It leaves me wondering... Could there be other journals of seijin out there as yet undiscovered, preserved by orders like the sisters, or perhaps guarded by families who were the descendants of those seijin... I wonder how they would compare...

Don

SYED wrote:I wonder why the seijin journals and diaries were not altered, but simply removed. Were they destroyed, or simply hidden away.
If other seijin could have become paranoid, they might have hidden something away. The men they made into warriors were likely all highly trained soldiers.
I wonder if htey attempted to remove t khody's body with the raikurai as all other attempts to do it secretly failed. THey might have been afraid of what the seigins remembered, and hteir neats might have contained infor, especially if they were used to alter the person.

Tonto Silerheels wrote:runsforcelery wrote:

There wouldn’t’ve been much the four of them could’ve accomplished, cut off from Alexandria and isolated half a world away from all the rest of the colonists, even if they hadn’t had Shan-wei’s instructions to lie low, survive, and plan for the future.

When I originally read Off Armageddon Reef I thought that the war against the fallen must have been fought between the followers of Pei Shan-wei on one side, and the followers of Langhorne on the other. The followers of Pei Shan-wei would have been the survivors of the Alexandria enclave strike, and the followers of Langhorne would have been the survivors of Pei Kau-yung's vest pocket nuke.

A later snippet made me adjust that to begin thinking it was between two factions of Langhorne's followers, perhaps one led by Scheuler and the other by Chihiro. With this snippet I'm back to the original thoughts.

Is there remaining any reason to believe that Langhorn's followers split into factions? Why would Shan-wei's followers be defeating Langhorne's followers up until the point Langhorne's followers thought to create seijin? Is it because Kau-yung was military and Langhorne was not, so Kau-yung could be expected to be better at striking his enemies? Would a vest pocket nuke leave radioactive contamination in Zion? Am I correct in thinking that the last seijin were all killed because they had knowledge of advanced technology, and Langhorne's followers couldn't allow that knowledge to exist? Is there a maximum number of questions allowed in one post?

~Tonto

Tonto Silerheels wrote:Rob the Fiend wrote:

Was Langhorne even based in Zion? IIRC the temple was built after Langhorne and friends got toasty.

You are correct; the Temple was build after Pai Kau-yung destroyed Langhorne. However, there's a cite in A Mighty Fortreess where it's stated that the Temple was built on the same site as Langhorne's headquarters.

~Tonto