bkwormlisa wrote:DMcCunney wrote:Schueler is the first Archangel we have heard about returning to God and leaving a mortal body behind, interred in a tomb with a church raised over it to house the tomb.
I do have to wonder about the other Archangels, and precisely how their departure was handled. (I am especially curious about Chihiro.)
Me too. It's mentioned that after the war Chihiro "departed". Boy do I want to know how that was meant! The implication to me was that he supposedly left Safehold, as in departed physically, but that's just the sort of ambiguity RFC loves to torment us with.
I asked RFC about that at a con, and said "Departed to
where? Unless there is something you haven't mentioned yet, the only places to be are Safehold or a colony vessel." He said we would find out where the Archangels wound up and what happened to them, but that there
weren't PICAs stashed under the Temple.
(I wondered about that, too. If Owl's fabrication unit could construct a PICA, the more powerful units aboard Hamilcar certainly could. I have to assume the plans for making PICAs weren't part of what was supplied to Operation Ark. Owl could do it because he had Numue's PICA to examine and reverse engineer. Chihiro and Schueler lacked an example to copy.
I had a vision of Chihiro recording his personality as death approached, uploading it it a PICA, and returning to Safehold in an immortal body to rule forever. RFC said if Chihiro
could do that, he wouldn't have
waited. He'd have done it ASAP. And he'd even have a cover story - his return to Safehold in an immortal body was penance, and he was exiled to Safehold instead of returning to God with the other Archangels for failing to stop Shan Wei.
Fortunately for all, he couldn't.
)
But I'd
really like to know what happened to Hamilcar, who/what was aboard when it departed, where it went, and when we'll see it again.
My suspicion is that it has very capable VR units, and a recording of Chihiro (and possibly others) is resident. Then the question becomes "Can a recorded personality in a VR unit control the ship that houses the VR unit? I don't offhand see why not.
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Dennis