shaeun wrote:I personally got the idea that the items stored were things that could easily be expended from the stores or lost without too many questions.
Effectively this means that the items chosen are random. This allows for the inclusion of items later for plot reasons if desired but does not imply that the equipment has to be used.
That's pretty much correct.
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The contents of Nimue's Cave do not constitute supplies carefully laid up for a series of preplanned, clearly visualized scenarios. Those contents consist of what Commodore Pei and Pei Shan-wei were able to divert/steal/conceal during the terraforming process itself, and they — along with Nimue's PICA — were tucked away before Langhorne and the colonists ever arrived to settle the planet, at which point — for the first time — the Commodore and Shan-wei discovered that their suspicions about Langhorne and Bédard had been justified and learned — for the first time — about the Church of God Awaiting.
One should not refine over much on the planning/foresight of Kau-yung or Shan-wei based on the contents of the cave. Their effort was to give Nimue as broad a set of tools as they could within the context of what was available to them, not to provide specific weapons or capabilities against any specific, clearly visualized threat situation. Nor should the absence of any virtual personalities of their own in the cave, as a great surprise to anyone.