![]() ![]() Fucking around with people's genetic material does not, for fuck's sake eating yourself or a dead person's clone is perfectly legal, no authorization needed. And the practice isn't banned in Newton, because why would it be? Experimentation on embryos requires a permit. He doesn't think an embryo is a human being, because they were going to check for birth defects and dispose of the defective embryos, if any. He doesn't consider reproductive technologies icky. He doesn't consider it immoral to fuck with Viksha's genome, as evidenced by the tree. Why can't Charlie make more embryos? He's a scientist. Latha is highly talented and skilled but has too little drive to change her situation and why would she anyway? The government pays for her food and rent and all her creative energy is spent towards Trance activism and projects, all done in Trance. In that regard, her life is safer than that of a normal working person who needs to go outside. ![]() Latha spends 97% of her time in Trance and doesn't really need to leave her apartment since she lives off welfare and the food machine makes going outside to shop for groceries superfluous. Both names sound similar with Galatea sounding more glamorous and Latha sounding more humble. She is entwined in the Trance like creeping ivy so maybe another speaking name. Latha is an Indian name and means the creeper (as in a creeping plant, not as in a creepy pedophile or anything like that). Galatea is a speaking name, perhaps referring to the perfect ivory statue of Galatea in the Greek myths. Galatea and Latha are a kind of twisted Prince & Pauper setup with Galatea leading the princely life and Latha playing the role of the pauper. How did Latha end up on welfare, anyway, if she's so precious? We see how extremely dangerous life in the underworld is. Having an upperclasshole design the perfect AI but chicken out of the ascendancy because of her upperclassholey love for supremacy through scarce meatspace luxury would've been the perfect ending. But we know for a fact she didn't stick herself in the new overmind because that's what she needed Latha for we should be able to take over her plan and leave her out in the cold. Why not ascend as an immortal, perfect queen of the Trance? We don't wan't specifically Galatea succeeding, because Galatea is an asshole and she won't be able to keep her grubby mitts off the controls no matter how imperfect she personally is. Not okay with Latha? Latha's reaction to Jinsil can vary from "you betrayed me, you asshole" to "eh it's okay". Why isn't implementing Galatea's plan an option? Unethical to Central, so our heroes won't possibly go along with it? Murdering her and replacing her with an imbecile who would act in her exact manner apparently isn't (it's not what Nina does, but we don't know that when making the choice). I can see why he would assign them a nonzero value, but the increased value of the embryos to him also makes the extortionists correspondingly more evil (and untrustworthy!)ĥ. ![]() How did she end up with a Sri Lankan culturally assigned name, after Viksha, if her origin is a mystery? She's not Sri Lankan, she's Newtonian.Ĥ. How did Latha end up on welfare, anyway, if she's so precious? We see how extremely dangerous life in the underworld is.ģ. I love the scene, but to make its implications not stupid, whoever ended up ordering the bomb planted should have wanted her death (and then adjusted the plan when she survived).Ģ. Why send Charlie to kill her? Nothing whatsoever in that situation is under her control, and Latha escapes in the last possible moment. The central plot/conflict, however, is terrible. I don't regret playing it, the game is shinyawesome, the worldbuilding is fantastic, production values are stellar. Unfortunately Technobabylon wasn't an exception. Whenever a game deals with science and ethics, the result tends to be terrible. ![]()
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