The Fool wrote: > >But what if the library was programmed that way from it's very beginning? > :-))))
So, you are applying your paranoia to the Uplift Universe? - Hi! I am Alberto a Human ul-Chimp ul-Dolphin. What's your name? - I don't give patronimics to wolflings. > Such that no record of Sol would ever stay in the archive? No >exploration / mass starcharting would ever betray this poor yellow star? >For indeed it is beyond imagining that NO one could ever have not seen >Sol in the sky through telescopes / etc. and not marked it down somehow. >How could it not? But it did. > The neightbourhood of Sol is quite a wasteland of planets. So, maybe it was forgotten. Also, we know that hyperspace is not stable, and maybe the neighbourhood of Sol suffered more after the last collapse. >But who could perpetrate such a grand conspiracy down through the ages if >not the Progenitors Themselves, who set everything in motion? Who >indeed. They were there from the start, and they set the up the 'client' >uplift model. They set up the institutions and the _Library_. > >Now these progenitors are accordingly _Older_ than the universe (or was >it the galaxy cluster, I forget). > IIRC, they were older than the ships. Oh, I forgot too :-/ > How could that be without time-travel? > When there are stasis fields, these gimmicks can be easily done :-) > These progenitors were from the future. Another thing that is >mystifying about these so called progenitors is their uncanny resemblance >to humans. They look verily like humans, only much older, many billions >of years more evolved. > This might be a fluke of the way they were mummyfied. For example, had they been found by Kanten, they might look like Kanten. >For indeed who else could the progenitors be? The only race that >uplifted itself through millions of years of uninterrupted Darwinian >evolution. For indeed no other race could get a chance with all these >galactic aliens about everywhere disrupting the natural evolution of >every living thing, such that none save those in some grand conspiracy >would ever get the chance to self-uplift at all. > >But it has happened! And it is a grand conspiracy indeed, for how could >it have happened otherwise, that the progenitors be but humans billions >of years in advance, and contrived to make it so humans would evolve >without interference. Indeed, it could have happened no other way. > If you add time-travel to the Uplift Universe, then you open a can of worms... Alberto Monteiro
