RE: Art of Domination Thread 04
09-11-2017, 01:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2017, 02:50 AM by Hypevosa.)
(09-10-2017, 08:23 PM)smuchmuch Wrote: »...That's a very complex theory you spined from just the for of the thing but besides the fact is does kind of remind a dial, I see no evidence to support it.
The author's bodies, devices and symbols tend to be metaphorical. It's in their very nature as authors.
Here you see something very universal; a tree, this one has 2 branches. One of which is weaker and thinner (the decoy phase) and one of which is very robust (the active phase) and one of which that seems to only serve as a template (vanished in the middle).
I believe given the thickness of each, we can maybe say that it's closer to a "save state" device than using some time travel. Since the save state for the full base has many people, with lives, experience, and overall tons of "data" it is a larger, stronger link. The template in the middle may just be what is used to determine the area which the device will affect, hence why the concrete(?) foundation is there during vanished phase.
The "hairs" could be leftover tendrils of whatever is reconstructing and deconstructing the "save" states. (or, my first theory was that it's what's at "the other end" of the device that would destroy our soldiers when they phase there).
If we can knock over the dummies in decoy phase to see if they are righted before they come back, and if we can observe if soldiers are actually moving at all between phases rather than being deconstructed and reconstructed in exactly the same spots, then we could glean more knowledge about "what" this thing is doing exactly.
If we don't really care, I'm fairly confident that un-rooting that middle sphere is the key to either turning off the device or destroying the base, or both. The worst case I've thought of is that unrooting it *may* mean we end up "loading" whatever is an "empty" dimensional space instead (if things are indeed "going" somewhere) and we may get to see what has the tendrils. I don't think that will be the case though - I believe since a save "space" is no longer specified it just wouldn't work anymore.