----- Original Message ----- From: "Tereth Dragonstar" TDragonstar@prodigy.net To: "Andrew Williams" awilliams@daikin.com.au Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:34 AM Subject: Re: [B7L] Hello?
The Altas and their slaves were humanoid in appearance, so you could
assume
that the mental equipment was compatible. The defence >mechanism makes
the
best plot device for the transfer as all three were affected by it. Also, if you remember the episode, there are some >shots of a strange brain-looking thing at the time!
I was thinking the brain would be the equivalant of Orac and or Zen.
do
you think it possible that a human mind might be able to stand that much information being stored and gathered in there?
From Ellynne's post, I imagined it only was a part of the System, and not
necessarily in control of it - the tinned thalamus-equivalent of Coser, if you like, stealing it's own invention.
Interesting idea there.In Terminal, the auto-repair was keeping the damage at bay, but the power
running the auto repair was finite. Also, the auto-repair could not repair the damage fast enough to get ahead. Perhaps if you envisage a faster auto-repair system with greater power reserves, it could have >been done.
Not exactly what I meant. I mean could the particles just the
particles
mind you be gotten rid of? Could they be destroied or removed in some way other then the auto-repair. Once removed or destroied would the
Liberator's
auto-repair be able to rebuild the liberator? Or rebuild Zen first then maybe Zen (who seems totally self aware in Terminal BTW, maybe Zen is sentient, maybe Zen could, once rebuilt, use the data from the battle computers to redesign the Liberator to have greater power stores, fire power, speed, manuverablity, energy recharge rate? It would be cool if Liberator could be redesigned for combating the Federation as well as exploring. (I've always thought that the Liberator was an exploration vehicle not a combat vehicle.)
Tereth Dragonstar