Hi, Shepherd. I haven't seen your first posting to the board yet -- I presume it's in a forum I haven't yet looked at this morning -- but I think I'll take the opportunity to welcome you to the boards right now.
To answer your questions:
1. Well, no answer yet. I'll have to go back and look at the scenes in question and reconstruct what I was thinking. Remember, too, that DW5 was written over the course of five years, and I did make some continuity glitches over that time -- for example, I wrote the scene of Doug finding Stingray's initials in the boomer brain circuitry into two different chapters, and had to cut it out of the latter one. This may well be a simple "forgot what I was doing" error.
2. As Rob notes below, Sylia had all the development notes for boomers. And the "time limit" was not one of inherent structure, but of waste management -- she'd only have to fix/improve one system instead of rebuilding the brain from the ground up. And if Doug could whip up a solution from scratch in spare time at work, Sylia could certainly do it better with a year or two of dedicated research and her father's notes.
3. Because it was easier to culture/fab mass quantities of Leo-A that way.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.
To answer your questions:
1. Well, no answer yet. I'll have to go back and look at the scenes in question and reconstruct what I was thinking. Remember, too, that DW5 was written over the course of five years, and I did make some continuity glitches over that time -- for example, I wrote the scene of Doug finding Stingray's initials in the boomer brain circuitry into two different chapters, and had to cut it out of the latter one. This may well be a simple "forgot what I was doing" error.
2. As Rob notes below, Sylia had all the development notes for boomers. And the "time limit" was not one of inherent structure, but of waste management -- she'd only have to fix/improve one system instead of rebuilding the brain from the ground up. And if Doug could whip up a solution from scratch in spare time at work, Sylia could certainly do it better with a year or two of dedicated research and her father's notes.
3. Because it was easier to culture/fab mass quantities of Leo-A that way.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.