Kizarvexis wrote:What I was asking was, did Langhorne & company hide the wetware of the 8M colonists before the Day of Creation, so that Pasquale healers would not necessarily find it?
No. Why would they need to?
And once the colonists were reprogrammed, why not remove the wetware, so that the reprogramming would not be reversed? If the wetware was removed, then it would have been a fait accompli to the CoGA memories as no one else would be able to put it back without Langhorne and company knowing.
You couldn't simply just reverse the reprogramming.
Suppressing the colonist's original memories and adding desired ones as an overlay did not actually delete the original memories, but it was mentioned elsewhere that
restoring the original memories would require access to a recording of the person's personality, or years working with regressive hypnosis. Otherwise, you would get a mix of real and false memories with no way for the affected individual to know which was which. Bedard apparently never bothered to store the colonist's original memories before she reprogrammed them. What Shan Wei did was effectively what Bedard did - add a new set of overlay memories that gave those she treated knowledge of where they really came from and what they really were. She could
not restore their memories of
who they had been back on Earth.
And we do have an idea how obvious it was from this in TFT.
TFTHardbackPg156 wrote:None of the circle's organic members could match that capability (PICA internal coms), because none of them had the "wetware" implants which had been standard for citizens of the Terran Federation. They could have had them, but any Safeholdian healer who saw them would instantly recognize them as neither natural nor explicable. Undoubtedly, they'd be put down as the work of more than mortal hands, and that was something none of them could risk when the jury about whether or not they really did worship Shan-wei, not God, was still out in so many Safeholdian minds.
There's obvious and there's obvious. I doubt the TF neural implants were obvious in the sense of clearly visible in daily life. They might be concealed by clothes.
Close examination by a medical professional would of course reveal them.
I know that everyone knew who the Adams and Eves were. They ere the adults and elders for everyone else after all. And since Safehold started off with 8M colonists, it seems that covering the wetware in the Book of Pasquale would be much easier than telling the thousands to hundreds of thousands of physicians individually, "oh, don't worry about that weird stuff in Adams and Eves as it is a natural thing for them". It could be an oral tradition, but with how oral traditions can be corrupted, it seems detailing it in the Book of Pasquale would be much safer and easier. Of course, from the quote from the book above, if the wetware was covered in the Book of Pasquale, then you would think that Merlin would have mentioned it.
Why would an Adam or Eve need to consult a Pasqualate?
Remember, they have standard TF medical nanotech like the stuff Merlin injects the IC with. They won't get
sick. If they need medical attention, it's because they were injured.
But the Angels and Archangels are still alive and active on Safehold, and many still will be as long as the Adams and Eves are alive. The Adams and Eves all had base antigerone therapy, and I believe there's a FAQ entry that gives them an average lifespan after being awakened on Safehold of at least 120 years. The command crew have access to antigerone booster shots and will be around longer.
It's a safe bet an Adam or Eve needing serious medical attention will get it from an Angel, not a Pasqualate. (And that may just be "Take the injured party back to Zion and put them in a med unit", like the one in Nimue's cave.)
I don't think Chihiro claimed that. Those in the Alexandria Enclave drew the short straw by virtue of association with Shan Wei.
That's why I put it as an hypothetical. The Book of Chihiro had the history of Safehold after all. But on further reflection of the quote from TFT I did above, this seems a lot less likely. I was thinking it would be an additional reason for the Inner Circle to hide the wetware, but if that was the case, you would think that Merlin would have mentioned it in the quote above.
The reason for the IC to hide the wetware was simply that it
would be something that should not be there. Any normal Safeholdian seeing it wouldn't know what it was but would know it shouldn't be there, and start asking questions the IC can't answer.
But it raises an interesting question. The TF neural implants are hardware, and a physical network port that can be plugged into. The organic wetware Owl comes up with uses a form of wireless transmission with no betraying surface hardware. Hard wired ports tend to have higher bandwidth that wireless ports. This may be significant at some point.
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Dennis