![]() Eventually, however, the kid grows up - with some supressed anger, but hopeful. You leave your own kid down on his luck, forget about him for many years. What if the person with whom he actually "belongs" was also the worst figure of authority he's always despised? What if the person who was supposed to give him any real good authority to look up to was.just a piece of corporate trash? Whoever the "Millstones" were, they must have left him there for a reason. If you let him choose, he'll pick you above Harlow, saying that he can keep his crew because he's got a family with your crew. He desperately wants to belong and admits to Parvati that he did feel lonely, but that it was worth it to find his place in the crew.He'd probably drop him off somewhere and try to forget about the whole thing, so it's not like it's impossible. If Rockwell were to, say, impregnate a girl - does he look like the kind of guy to take care of his kid in Byzantium? He's a greedy bastard who'd rather take care of the purebloods than some halfblood he happened to help bring to the world.Hell, he could be the Vicar's kid for all we know.įelix's main issues are two: Problems with authority, and not belonging. ![]() ![]() He was an orphan in the back bays of the Groundbreaker, but think of the possibilities. If you ask Felix about his past upfront, he'll tell you he's the illegitimate son of Chairman Rockwell - but some deduction and maybe a looksee through the "dumb" dialogue option will tell you he's just deflecting the question. Fast forward a few decades and you end up with what is bascially a population of gullible, uncritical fools easily trammelled into shape by a shiny corporate-built society designed to churn out such sheep, with the handful of errant bright sparks ground down by social pressure and too isolated to make any real difference.įelix Millstone is Chairman Rockwell's lost sonA stupid theory with not a whole lot of proof and a ton of speculation that might be a serious case of taking jokes too seriously, but bear with me telling you how great it'd be if it were true. So, rather than risk the trouble of dealing with a population of doers and thinkers, the HHC set the Hope's skip drive to malfunction on purpose and either destroy the ship or leave it stranded in deep space, while they could get on with manipulating the Groundbreaker's passengers in peace - who, in contrast to the Hope, would be stocked with people more susceptible to their efforts to turn them into an unequestioning labour force. If an entire starship of people like this had been awoken in Halcyon as advertised, it's not hard to imagine that the Board's little hypercapitalist paradise would never have got off the ground. Notice that even though the Hope was advertised as carrying scientists and other great thinkers, the Unplanned Variable's character creation process reveals them as a menial worker on the bottom rung of their career - however, depsite being a mere cashier, test-tube cleaner, or sports mascot (and possibly also as thick as two short planks), they are still wilful, resourceful, and go-getting enough to serve as our player character. In thes case, the Hope was the A Ark and the Groundbreaker a mixture of B and C.As part of the Halcyon Holding Corporation's plan for the colony, the passenger manifests of the two ships were filtered not by the "importance" of their job, but by personality type. The Hope was deliberately sabotagedThe situation with the Groundbreaker and the Hope seems to form an unconscious parallel to the invented story of the Golgafrinchan Arks in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - multiple ark ships containing subsections of the overall population: an A Ark containing the best and the brightest, a C Ark carrying manual labourers, and a B Ark carrying the "unimportant" miscellany in the middle.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |