Re: IN-GAME THREAD: INSIDE THE ZIGGURAT
"Thank you, Grigori," says the robot. "Allow me to add the input of The Ziggurat."
Grigori's theories become projected on the wall (in the form of written sentences) in front of the group:
1. The place is populated with a branch of humanity that had transcended to the point that they communicate without words; their art is a performance of visuo-audio-olfactory hallucination created by pods of "singers" who project psychic energy.
2. It was a refuge for the wealthy, administered by machine and populated by those who knew nothing but leisure. The breaking was not so inevitable, but an excuse to escape the rabble.
3. It's on the polar opposite of the planet, a strong line of energy running through the two the only thing holding the planet together.
4. There is a machine from the cloister that can put the sun back to the sky.
5. A tree that exists that drops a seed twice a year that will double a man's lifespan.
"The knowledge of The Ziggurat, which is slightly greater than the sum total of all the knowledge to which you have personally had access, can confirm that theory #3 is almost certainly not true. Firstly, The Ziggurat is not located at the planet's magnetic pole. Secondly, the records we have access to suggests that the plans for The Cloister were that it be built closer to The Ziggurat than the opposite side of the planet. Put the two pieces of information together, and it suggests that theory #3 may-- in all likely probability-- be safely dismissed."
"The theory that has the most truth to it is #2. Early on, The Cloister was in fact to be built by pooling the vast resources of those with above-average wealth-- quadrillionaires and their families, and, presumably, their servants and other retainers. The Ziggurat was to be for everyone else. Of course, it was also presumed that The Cloister was either never actually built, or was built but destroyed, but recent evidence suggests strongly that these may not have been the case."
"As for your other theories, there is too little evidence to confirm nor rule out #1-- one can merely observe that the designation 'human' has had many, many, many, many variations over the last five-or-more-billion years."
"The same is true for #5, but it must be said that it is perfectly plausible. Indeed, the existence of a tree which survives Outside The Ziggurat at all is less likely than the possibility that a tree with such properties might, at some time in the past, have been created."
"As for #4, again, there is too little evidence to confirm that theory nor to rule it out-- but it is an extremely interesting theory, is it not? Such technology could be very good to know about."
"...Are there any other questions...? Anyone...? Anyone...?"