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stone vine
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the same thing still applies

crisp citrus
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I still don't think it progresses fast enough for perm damage to body over 80 minutes either

stone vine
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and reinfection when in contact with sleepers is possible

crisp citrus
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Ok

crisp citrus
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Then

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HSU let's you indefinitely survive as long as you go in it once in a while

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Since it kills nam v

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And mutations don't happen immediately

stone vine
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yeah issue with that is that uh we either die or go to jungle planet where hsus dont exist

crisp citrus
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The prisoners are almost always in HSU

stone vine
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and we do that after not going into an hsu

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so uh gg i guess

crisp citrus
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Not everyone gets it right away though

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It's infective but it doesn't straight up teleport into the body from the air

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I get everyone likes the idea of "the prisoners on jungle world die soon after because nam v"

stone vine
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issue is it kind of would work like other diseases where people are asymptomatic which, among 4 people, id say one of them likely could be a long term carrier

crisp citrus
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But I do not think it unreasonable to believe they lived after being purged

stone vine
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well yes its all up to ur interpretation :3

crisp citrus
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Yea

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I like happy endings

stone vine
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fair fair

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i think in nightmare universe nam v might jsut kill everything

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i feel like for what we see its likely some crazy version of the virus

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like they dropped the fattest bioweapon on those aliens

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also my only thing with hsus is sure they can kill off nam-v and the parasite, but we know that it doesnt reverse once it actually starts changing your dna

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so in a case where a mission may drag on for weeks (lets pretend) it is totally viable we could die like that

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but in 80 min intervals no way

crisp citrus
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Uh

stone vine
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we would definitely be sick but itd be like a small cough

crisp citrus
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Your DNA is always being screwed with in real life

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Random mutations or damage from the sun

stone vine
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yes but we know hsus dont revert extremely physical changes because we see it physically

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maybe its a plothole

crisp citrus
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We never had extreme changes

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We weren't out of HSUs for a long enough period to get them

stone vine
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ye im not arguing w u or anytrhing

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im tryna expand on it

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thats what i said :}

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if we were out for weeks it would be different

crisp citrus
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Schaeffer is a plot hole

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Unless he goes in once in a while

stone vine
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yeah thats been a thing since r5

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hes just been a plothole

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atp he might as well just be jesus

crisp citrus
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I by default assume he has some way to do self serve HSU or it makes no sense

stone vine
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no yeah he shouldnt be alive

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also he killed henrikson

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so he was alone yet again

crisp citrus
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The conduit is also weird

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How is it that it can't be infected and sleepers don't mind it, but they can't figure out how to move that to a person

crisp citrus
stone vine
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well theres specific steps

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if u just step out of an hsu then ur gonna be fucked

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so he woulda had to program something

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and he just killed his hacker so like good luck to him

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i mean hes dead either way

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what we dont know yet is where is schaeffer number 3???

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im assuming hes probs also dead

stone vine
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the aliens themselves dont die to the sleepers or virus and it was literally made to kill them

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they can also teleport

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and know how universe transportation works

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and yet they had to use prisoners

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further

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they literally have a space ship that shoots super lazer beams and are highly advanced but somehow have the same hacking capability as schaeffer?

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idk if they realized like they made an extremely intelligent alien species only to make them rely on humans to save humans?

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either they just did not care that much or that is some serious plot hole

crisp citrus
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Idk, allow it.

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Do not question it

stone vine
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honestly might just have to

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also we never got to go to the inner

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i wanted to meet the aliens

crisp citrus
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The Inner DLC

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coming 2024

stone vine
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ykw i genuinly see that hapenning

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or they drop a final ext

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also i feel like schaeffer was the main character of gtfo

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so i think we should rebrand the game to: schaeffer

eternal talon
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The breakthrough that Kovac Research hopes will answer these questions is called Hydrostasis - a process that allows humans to be held in a state of suspended animation for weeks, months, even years at a time without suffering any ill-effects. The nuts and bolts of the process are a closely guarded secret, but sources speculate that the procedure likely uses a synthetic amniotic fluid to sustain and protect the body while it is in an induced comatose state. In this state, the body is - for all intents and purposes - dead, but no cell deterioration or physical decay occurs. For the human in Hydrostasis, the heart, and time, stops.

Even if the patient does manage to survive the initial onslaught of the virus, it will remain in their system and can strike again without warning. Once you are isolated with NAM-V, you stay isolated.

also, i should mention, the log in question "nothing survives unless we want it to", is literally wrong.

**I don’t see how pathogens could be influencing the BAT result to be honest. The assessments are carried out after at least 5 days in HS recovery, and very few organisms will survive suspended animation for more than a few days without a finely tuned subsistence strategy to keep them alive. When we introduce positive bacteriophage we have to stimulate them constantly or they won’t survive even a few hours in HS. This is without considering the counteragents and neutralizers we use in the amniotic plasma.

Any behavioral issues you were seeing are psychological, not biological. Nothing survives HS unless we want it to.**

where the behavioral issues are absolutely from nam-v infection, we know this as one of its very first major symptoms

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I’m worried if we don’t solve this issue we may end up with a failure cascade. These HSUs are all F/Infected classification so I guess it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we lost the meat, but the freezers may come in handy someday - or at least we may end up needing them as Deep backups or organ donations etc.

stone vine
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tbh wiki literally says that it kills nam v either way even if it did i doubt it could do it that fast

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reverting cell damage takes a lot of time

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idk who or what to believe

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this game is turning me schizo

eternal talon
stone vine
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yes

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what im saying is it says it can completely kill it on wiki

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but im hearing diff things

eternal talon
crisp citrus
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So even if HSU kills it, if you had it too long it still gives you brain damage

eternal talon
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im not sure, but we have a full list of symptoms if you've not seen it

crisp citrus
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I saw

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No real way to know

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IDK things are just too unconfirmed or up to assumptions

plush sigil
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Says it there

eternal talon
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However, reinfection is possible once resuscitated from hydrostasis.[3] It is for this reason that security operatives can survive multiple reinfections throughout their expeditions.

plush sigil
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Considering on average missions last an hour to two hours I don't think that's long enough for mutations to occur even with repeated exposure, but we can only ever guess since iirc it never really goes into specifics, although I remember it mentioning in logs that the period between catching the virus and actually getting sick was a decent amount. Definitely more than just hours.

eternal talon
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**2 researchers from the team reported minor flu-like symptoms in the weeks following the incident. ** yeah that checks out...
doesn't explain class-F though (or the login "infected" status)

stone vine
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i have a solution

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plot holes

clear furnace
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Are there any logs actually explaining the enemies now?

eternal talon
strange cliff
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is there a website where you can read all the logs in a chronological order ?

eternal talon
strange cliff
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is it updated with the r8 logs ?

eternal talon
solar nova
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Duck updates it currently. If Wiki is up to date, Notion probably is, but if not you can use Wiki for R8 specifically.

strange cliff
solar nova
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Work of Chase, Myself, and Duck during different periods.

iron furnace
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As a doctor, I've always found it kind of funny that people like to relate fictional diseases to cancer, HIV, or both.

serene mauve
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GO-1395: Bishop is a Genesis Operative, the first generation of KSOs
T-3701: Dauda is labelled Temporary much like Schaeffer (C067 with Santonian, T-3894 as KSO) due to being more or less kidnapped by Woods (the T designation probably means any assets not officially inducted by Kovac personell into Legion, personal theory, take with several grains of salt)
F-2056: Fault class designation cuz Woods' brain really likes god
O-4711: Operative Aiden Hackett, the only "normal" one

brazen edge
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There should be a log in R8A2 zone 69 right?

peak frigate
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The room with immortal, if thats what z69 is

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Yea there is a log

peak frigate
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Ah. No this is secret terminal

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Apologies I thought this was secondary zone lol

heavy lynx
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1 question

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what happen at the end of r8e1?

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and is the r8e2 the same team that was in r8e1

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or are they diffrent team

cobalt mulch
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r8e1 a squad turns over their data cubes to the shuttlebox, and another squad uses them to gtfo, leaving the other squad to die. wrdn figures it out, turns off security, gives up.

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afaik r8a1-r8e1 is one team, then on r8a2 and forward its separate teams (r8a2 secondary team can't do r8b3 for example)

royal crow
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E1 team is the team we play in the ALT levels

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E2 team is the team we play in the OG levels

cobalt mulch
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some said that r8a2 starts with the og team r1-r7

royal crow
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with the crazy schaeffer

cobalt mulch
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r8 best rundown (imho) ❤️

royal crow
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:b

burnt wren
royal crow
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that ended in the same dimension

timid palm
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i’m kinda sad the good schaffer wasn’t able to come with use to escape

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also crazy how different being in control made the crazy schaffer, dude was power tripping like crazy

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oh, and what happens at the end of D1 still? that’s my final confusion, what happened to the good schaffer and where did the 4 dead prisoners come from

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cause obviously the message at the end, is t actually schaffer who recorded it

royal crow
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or you want me to spoil you?

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or you already did R8?

royal crow
timid palm
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yeah i remember that

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so then what explains the other 4 dead prisoners at the end of d1?

royal crow
timid palm
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interesting

royal crow
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you can see a lot of dead bodies through all of R8

timid palm
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yeah but none are actually the prisoners

royal crow
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they are

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you can see woods dead in B2

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hackett in A i believe

timid palm
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oh i guess i just never noticed

royal crow
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also Dauda and Bishop dead bodies in R6

timid palm
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still a shame there wasn’t an actual like NPC of either schaffer in any of the@

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both D1 and D2 blue balled me

royal crow
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lol why

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you can see schaeffer dead body in D2

timid palm
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boffum

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but i thought we were actually gonna see like an animated NPC

toxic wagon
royal crow
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the worldlines merging?

heavy lynx
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Yup

royal crow
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idk

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my guess is that we messed with the matter projector

heavy lynx
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I thought the matter projector is only used for teleport

royal crow
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well, it is

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a telerporter between world lines or dimensions

cunning light
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It somehow creates a superposition of two separate dimensions

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Allowing matter to cross between them

royal crow
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also

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the fact we see more bodies of ourselves i guess we werent the only ones dragged into this mess

topaz hollow
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Why tf are there so many reactors about the place in this fucking facility

hot burrow
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Probably reactors for that quadrant

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In some of the warden’s intel it mentions how a reactor in C is needed to power up D etc

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R3A3s intel is an good example

shy sky
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so, the warden is really AI? what's trying to do?

warm root
royal crow
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and building a single reactor for everything could be dangerous

eternal talon
royal crow
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im thinking he wanted to make a cure or something similar
or at least help us survive

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if they are so advanced they have probably saved or at least tried to save other especies

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or maybe you know
the aliens are trying to fix their mistakes

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after all its their fault this shitshow happened

eternal talon
eternal talon
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they are outcasts

peak frigate
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Is it clear yet how warden is "trying to help"

eternal talon
peak frigate
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nice

royal crow
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i think thats a no

peak frigate
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not even clear whether its helping or not

royal crow
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thats why OG Schaeffer > ALT Schaeffer

eternal talon
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the coords that were programmed into the data cubes would send them to an infected worldline, probably one guranteed to kill them. we know this because we as OG squad literally have to rewrite them at the Insight Lab to get the true "clean" worldline's coords

peak frigate
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warden could have been just trying to eradicate to prevent further spread into the galaxy or whatever

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Dunno

eternal talon
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if alt// team were successful, they would have been guranteed to die. likely a way to get rid of alt//schaeffer so he doesn't end up like OG did and fuck over his warden

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(since the wardens can communicate between worldlines)

royal crow
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Og Schaeffer was right all along

eternal talon
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alt// warden almost certainly knew what happened to og warden, so lied to their schaeffer to prevent the same outcome

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(which also explains why we didn't have an alt//r7)

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no rebellion for alt.

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no need to replace a unit schaeffer had killed

peak frigate
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Im more curious how most worldlines got simultaneously infected

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mwp ?

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and expeditions, whatever has been said in r8c1

eternal talon
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how the virus goes between these worldlines, we dont know. probably through the mwp, yeah

royal crow
eternal talon
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or different mwps from different worldlines / different ships/fossils/inners

peak frigate
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If mwp carries the virus, wouldnt virus also jump

eternal talon
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there was no worldline where the virus was present and it was just maybe okay or tolerable

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if it exists, it kills everything, no questions asked

royal crow
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i see

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very scary

eternal talon
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not to mention we also infect the "clean" worldline at the end of r8e2, though that is more likely from ourselves or the giant ass wreckage of KDS-Deep rather than just the mwp

peak frigate
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thats such a weird ending

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so we practically achieved nothing, killed ourselves in the process and will kill another planet entirely

eternal talon
timid palm
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so did ALT Durnant or whatever build the teleporter on the jungle planet?

eternal talon
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though i'm not sure our squad would have known in time to warn alt// team of the data cube's coordinates

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i dont remember when exactly that takes place

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(also doesnt help that we dont inform or try to work with schaeffer, either)

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we just ignore him and never reply on comms

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which really fucking sucks

timid palm
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wait so technically OG Schaffers plan was better?

royal crow
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ALT team gets the funny cubes in B1 and tries to reprogram them in B2

eternal talon
royal crow
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we would have died anyways

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OG schaeffer plan was: Blow up garganta

eternal talon
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but imo i'd rather die alone than doom a potentially safe planet

timid palm
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i guess i really didnt think that in the ending we still were fucked even on the jungle planet because we brought NAM-V with us

eternal talon
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and in the process we could have tried to convince and save the alt// team

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just ditch the mwp entirely

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(it would HAVE to be before the e-tier levels, by then there just wouldnt be enough time to break through the surface bulkheads and escape)

peak frigate
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So durant is alive?

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nice

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one survivor

eternal talon
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warden shut that stuff up tight

eternal talon
timid palm
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i really like how both teams are within minutes of being near each other

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really cool how they do that in the other half of R8

eternal talon
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potentially dozens of humans on the jungle world

timid palm
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it would be cool sometime in the future if the devs randomly posted like a picture of a settlement there

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or atleast what happens

eternal talon
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(if his team size was the same as og, being a dozen or so scientists and 4 ksos for support)

eternal talon
timid palm
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well yeah eventually

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it would take like what

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a month?

eternal talon
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5-weeks average from infection to death, yeah.

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we hear durant before the credits, so their outpost is nearby where kds-deep ended up

peak frigate
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Is there any chance kds deep was inaccesible for more than virus's lifespan

timid palm
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it sounded more like a transmission, like durant said it through speakers or something

eternal talon
peak frigate
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right

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warden works against us

eternal talon
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r5-now it has been open so warden could get the 24,000 KSOs housed inside

timid palm
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so what was the goal of the collectors? i didnt really get that

eternal talon
# timid palm so what was the goal of the collectors? i didnt really get that

we have two theories, one based on what we see, and one based on what they tell us.

In og, we SEE the warden collecting the genome database from destination before schaeffer's uprising, and dropping everything to replace the unit schaeffer killed, so it was probably trying to work on a cure.

in alt//, we HEAR the collectors telling schaeffer that they collect the virus, and their goal is a worldline 100% infected, so wants us to leave to accomplish that
(even though killing us would be a billion times easier... kinda sus)

timid palm
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oh so what we HEAR is they actually WANT to infect everything everywhere

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i thought they were trying to stop it

eternal talon
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Voice 1
You control the Warden? Who are you?
Voice 2
We travel. We project. From before, and after, through the membranes.
Voice 1
Membranes.
Voice 2
Planes. Spheres. Phases. Dimensions. Universes. We travel, We collect. Through the membranes. We collect the virus. The Collection is impure.
Voice 1
Did you "collect" those creatures?
Voice 2
Yes. They are the Collection. They are impure. We have been in exile for 2-point zero-6-6-3-8-8-8-5-2 times 10 to the power 15 Seconds. We have been waiting.
Voice 1
For what?
Voice 2
In this membrane, a resolution has been determined.
Voice 1
A resolution to what?
Voice 2
Conclusion: the Collection cannot be completed. The virus is the primary life force of membranes in which it exists. All will become impure. In this membrane, and all we have traveled.
Voice 1
This membrane? But, outside of this place, this facility, there may be people working on a cure--
Voice 2
96.35% of humans in this membrane are impure. The virus is the primary life force. The humans must leave.
Voice 1
How?
Voice 2
A clean membrane will be determined. Humans will project, then destroy the Projector. The Collection will be complete.

royal crow
timid palm
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i couldnt really understand what the lamens terms of that log was

eternal talon
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its easy to assume from the name they would be trying to collect us for like an intergalactic zoo

timid palm
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i read that and was baffled as, It's been 24,672 seconds since my birthday

royal crow
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but still

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their names is sus af already

timid palm
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like the ending part it sounds like they just want the humans to go somewhere else and never return

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to a clean "dimension/membrane"

royal crow
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they wanted to kill us

eternal talon
royal crow
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since we would ruin their plans

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or at least slow them down

royal crow
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Mass Effect

timid palm
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ah i see

royal crow
eternal talon
timid palm
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so are Unit 22 and Unit 27 "Collectors" I thought they were those fucked up clones from Project Rise

eternal talon
timid palm
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ahhhhhhhhhh

eternal talon
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also not really

timid palm
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telepathic whateverness

eternal talon
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rise went down after garganta was overrun, (because nobody left alive), the units were created explicitly by the warden

timid palm
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oh so Project Rise was a warden done thing

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interesting

eternal talon
royal crow
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how long did it took for garganta to be completely overrun?

timid palm
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so the sleepers are the "collection" right?

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or is it things that are infected with NAM-V

eternal talon
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roughly

royal crow
eternal talon
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(2052 being earliest date) could have lasted another year or so past 2056.

royal crow
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thats better than i expected

eternal talon
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but not much more

royal crow
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i thought they got rekt in like a couple weeks or so

eternal talon
royal crow
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but i guess the last people did put a fight

royal crow
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so it was like
NAM-V learning the human body and stuff to then attack

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then sleepers started to appear

timid palm
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i still think its funny how we just have basically no idea where the sleepers came from

royal crow
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they are humans

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mutated

timid palm
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exactly

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but everytime someone says "NAM-V turns humans into sleepers" everyones like NUH UH

peak frigate
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NO ITS THE PARASITE

eternal talon
# royal crow they are humans

Not all of them. (Even ignoring floaters and kraken) Hammerstein found hundreds of specimens from different universes in the inner and one of the first sleepers ever encountered, in the Edgar log, is still unlike any we have ever seen to this day

peak frigate
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Is actually virus + parasite together

timid palm
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or the one with the paper skin

eternal talon
royal crow
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its a fucking interdimensional virus

timid palm
eternal talon
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Completely unrelated to humans

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We accidentally let the floaters into garganta in r6b1

timid palm
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yeah so like the natural species in destination also got mutated

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same as the humans

royal crow
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imagine having floating meatballs

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lol

peak frigate
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so these aliens gotta be invasive

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spread the virus then eradicate civs

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lul

timid palm
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i really wanna see what the surface of earth looks like

royal crow
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they spread the virus, infect other people and then capture them for their "collection"

peak frigate
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why wait 65 mil years tho

royal crow
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ecpi

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epic

eternal talon
eternal talon
timid palm
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yeah i guess

royal crow
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they could be infecting especies for then research them in search of a cure?

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idk

peak frigate
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Its certain such a complex virus has to be made by aliens right

timid palm
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i really am annoyed they dropped all this shit as the final update

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so many things that we will never truely "uncover"

eternal talon
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Perhaps they think curing it could allow them to return to their society

royal crow
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maybe

timid palm
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they just wanna be invited back to the alien functions

royal crow
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it would make sense

eternal talon
rocky wraith
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me

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ow

royal crow
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they made the virus
got exiled
use the virus to infect other species
capture those species for research

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hmmmm

peak frigate
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has to be artifical to have such a mutually beneficial partnership with a parasite

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something or someone developed the perfect bioweap

eternal talon
rocky wraith
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doesn't have to be artificial for mutually beneficial partnership with parasites as that is naturally occurring in real life

eternal talon
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Ie; they haven't always been symbiotic

peak frigate
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ah

eternal talon
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The virus just came across the parasite on one world or another and the people living on that world got reaaaaally unlucky

rocky wraith
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What is artificial is the multi-pronged attack and infection strategy

peak frigate
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just the virus then

royal crow
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alright
time for a biology lesson

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LETS GO

peak frigate
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one of the two was a natural occurence then

eternal talon
rocky wraith
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Parasite was natural and has since co-evolved with the virus

peak frigate
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really unlucky

unborn cloak
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so this alien specie (the collectors) just infect planes/dimensions until all primery life force becomes one with the NAM-V, i.e become sleepers, then they satisfied?

unborn cloak
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im just confused to that hearsay log, why does 'the conduit' wants to help human to move to another dimension, not to even mention why would they even infect at the first place

eternal talon
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But just because they say it doesn't guarantee it is true, especially in this case

unborn cloak
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h..uh...

eternal talon
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(Since if they wanted us gone killing us would be soooo much easier than sending us to a clean dimension), hell, they could just not deploy us in the first place. Eventually the power would run out and we would die

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There are holes in what it says

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Actin' a bit... sussy

lilac island
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the collectors arent necessarily the ones who carry the varus

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it probably killed them too

fiery terrace
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Are collectors deliberately infecting worlds/membranes? That's... weird.

grave quest
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ok

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I have just completed e2

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what happens at the end?

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I did not understand anything

eternal talon
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@royal crow Somebody please, I'm at work

royal crow
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bring my R8 copy paste

royal crow
# grave quest I have just completed e2

R8 TLDR:
(A1-E1)

ALT team objective is get funny data cubes to get to a clean dimension with the help of ALT schaeffer (R8B1)
ALT team gets datacubes (R8B1)
ALT team gets more information from degauser terminals to get the coordinates for a clean dimension, warping between their garganta, nightmare worldline and destination in the process (R8B2)
ALT team tries to get more information about "project insight" to know more about the matter wave projector, in here OG team helps them giving them all the data, ignoring their schaeffer orders (R8C1)
ALT Team heads to garden to get more info and recive multiple calls for help from OG team (R8D1)
Facility is going to shit so they head to KDS Deep
Other team asks for data cubes
OG team uses the data cubes to go to a clean dimension
Once ALT team enters KDS deep everything is destroyed and they have to defend themselves against massive hordes of enemies.......

(A2-E2)

OG team under OG Schaeffer orders start a nuclear meltdown (R8A2)
OG team follows schaeffer orders until they hear ALT schaeffer and decides to help them, retriving the "project insight" data and leaving the hard drive that ALT team later picks up (R8C2)
OG Team removes their chips from the head finally stopping to follow schaeffer orders (R8C2)
OG team heads to the nuclear cooling tanks to get the matter wave projector from schaeffer, in here OG team asks for help to ALT team through the BIOCOM. (R8D2)
OG and ALT schaffer encounter each other and fight, here ALT schaeffer opens the possibility of both worldines merging into eachother causing the events of R8 (both schaeffers and both protagonist teams ending in the same complex) (R8D2)
OG team in D2 retrieves the matter wave projector after the 2 schaeffer fight eachother and die (R8D2)
OG team heads to KDS Deep once the nuclear meltdown starts (R8E2)
OG team impersonates Schaeffer and gets the data cubes from the alt team (R8E2)

grave quest
#

the funny thing I thought wasnt it more easier use the teletransportation of r6 b1?

royal crow
#

a "clean" dimension from the virus

grave quest
#

what is destination and nightmare worldline?

royal crow
#

destination is desert planet

#

and nightmare garganta is fucked up garganta

grave quest
#

but

#

if we are infected

#

why dindt we become monsters?

royal crow
grave quest
#

well

#

I think from r1 to 58

#

at least

gilded vine
#

Hsu sleep staves off the virus

royal crow
#

and everytime we go into the HSU the virus dies

grave quest
#

more or less

grave quest
#

we have the cure

royal crow
#

no

grave quest
#

we just use the hsu

royal crow
#

there is no cure for NAM-V

gilded vine
#

It's not a cure, it's a bandaid

royal crow
grave quest
#

who is dr haunt?

#

at the end of r8 e2

royal crow
#

haunt?

grave quest
#

duant

royal crow
#

you mean Durant?

grave quest
#

durant

#

yes

royal crow
#

someone who left to jungle dimension before Garganta got overrun by sleepers

grave quest
#

so we have a partial good ending

royal crow
#

i havent done my research about him yet

grave quest
#

nightmare dimension is garante destroyed

royal crow
#

yes

grave quest
#

but that garganta destroyed had hsus

royal crow
#

the one we warp in B1

grave quest
#

so we can have normal live there

#

we the hsus

royal crow
#

no

#

in E2 we bring a piece of KDS Deep with us

#

and that part is most likely infected with NAM-V

grave quest
#

what is KDS deep

#

is it an ubication

royal crow
#

to use the data cubes

#

and warp us into another dimension

#

is where most of HSU's are stored

grave quest
royal crow
#

sorry but ALL of garganta is infected

grave quest
#

we do a tp to an ubication with a lot of dead bodies

#

what does it mean

royal crow
#

nothing really

grave quest
#

if the virus did not reach there

royal crow
#

the virus is everywhere

#

everywhere in garganta

grave quest
#

not in the clean universe

royal crow
grave quest
#

well

#

In some way is a good ending

royal crow
#

we get infected everytime we get out of the HSU's

shy sky
grave quest
#

because we techinically escaped from garganta

royal crow
#

but we doomed another planet

#

lol

grave quest
#

who cares

#

XD

royal crow
#

EXACTLY

#

we made it out at least

#

thats what matters

grave quest
#

in that planet only lived dr daunt

#

durant

royal crow
grave quest
#

humanity would die

cobalt mulch
#

how come durant+team didnt infect it earlier

grave quest
#

because as long as I know there is only males in garganta isnt it?

royal crow
royal crow
#

maybe?

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i dont think so

grave quest
#

if only the warden

#

communicated with us

cobalt mulch
#

hsus were full of females also

grave quest
#

we would not uprise

royal crow
#

the warden isnt a good person or AI or alien or whatever

#

at all

grave quest
#

well

#

but he could persuade us

royal crow
#

he basically did

#

with the ALT team

grave quest
#

the alt team was doom because of OG

#

another day another vicotry for the og

royal crow
#

alt has skill issue fr

cobalt mulch
#

... and they got to skip the alt remakes 😄 😄

grave quest
#

ALT schaeffer>>>>>>>>>>>>> mad crazy schaeffer

royal crow
#

OG schaeffer better

grave quest
#

no

#

alt was a good person

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the other was a crazy guy

#

hold up where is henriksson?

#

if he was the warden

#

all the time

royal crow
grave quest
#

why

royal crow
#

Schaeffer kills him in R8A2

grave quest
#

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

royal crow
#

Schaeffer wanted to blow up garganta and Henrikson was like: bruh you are gonna kill us

grave quest
#

what are the neonato

gilded vine
grave quest
#

what is the hole point around it

gilded vine
royal crow
grave quest
#

yeah

#

I have read a terminal I dont where

#

but in that they talked about

#

nam- v vaccine

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the writer was

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the minister

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of agriculture

#

or something

royal crow
#

theres no way to fight NAM-V

#

every world NAM-V is present is the superior form of life

#

it consumes everything

grave quest
royal crow
grave quest
royal crow
#

lets just hammer NAM-V

#

lol

grave quest
#

we kill thousands of sleepers

#

and squidwards

gilded vine
#

Nothing could survive the core of a star

royal crow
#

well

#

we can try to nuke the world

#

and see if NAM V survives

grave quest
#

Pable

#

you are an imortal tank

#

that is agianst the nam . v

#

?

royal crow
#

stabby stab

grave quest
#

why the sleepers in some way are funny

#

I mean

#

you see them run

royal crow
#

they run like naruto

grave quest
#

xd

cobalt mulch
#

neonates were wrdn trying (and succeeding at least twice) to get mobile, get a body with a chip, walk around and interact directly. og r6, schaeffer kills one. alt r6 one is found killed next to 2 alt ksos, bishop and dauda? ...

royal crow
#

actually heres something interesting

grave quest
#

GTFO: if schaeffer did not exist

royal crow
#

the squad from the ALT dimension is already dead

grave quest
#

why

cobalt mulch
#

the neos were void of environmental influence, no schooling no adolescence nothing to block pure "programming"

royal crow
#

what we know is

#

we dont have skill issue

grave quest
#

but we wont have gtfo 2

royal crow
#

we need STFU

grave quest
#

STFU?

royal crow
#

Shut The Fuck Up

grave quest
#

Sus Terminator fancy uranus?

royal crow
#

heh

#

ur anus

#

sorry

grave quest
#

what are the traps?

#

durant was talking about

royal crow
#

idk

#

maybe some landmines

#

or sentries

grave quest
#

wjy is he so confused if he knows about mwp?

royal crow
#

okay

#

imagine living in an alternate dimension

#

and then you see a giant piece of metal appear out of nowhere

#

how would you react?

grave quest
#

maybe

#

thinking

#

that i am in the gtfo universe?

#

nah just joking

royal crow
#

enjoy life

grave quest
#

why is it called nightmare?

#

I mean is more likely heaven

royal crow
grave quest
#

at least duran did not kill us I was thinking that ending would be: we escape and reach the clean universe , but suddenly two guards appear and we die

#

XD

royal crow
grave quest
#

you transform in a monster with superpowers

#

thats cool

grave quest
royal crow
grave quest
#

not in a nightmare complex

#

the squidwars are the virus nam-v?

#

fliers

royal crow
#

nope

#

they are from another species

#

found in destination

#

(desert planet)

grave quest
#

Why the sleepers arent agressive to them?

#

why the fliers did not get infected

royal crow
#

they are infected

#

those fliers and giant squidwars were once "normal" species like Humans

#

but they are from a different dimension

grave quest
#

where is warden¨s main frame?

royal crow
#

i have no idea

#

Frosty can answer your question about that iguess

#

but she is at work

grave quest
#

as I said before in the nightmare dimension there were dead bodies

#

I think that is very important

#

that means that something has happened

royal crow
grave quest
#

maybe a civil war

royal crow
#

as you can see the infection was already worse than our dimension

grave quest
#

but it wasnt clear?

royal crow
#

someone tried to make a final stand and died

grave quest
#

but

#

nightmare

#

was clean

#

wasnt it?

#

that was the hole point

#

going to a clean universe

royal crow
#

i think you are mixing the dimensions and stuff

#

Jungle world is the clean one

grave quest
#

ok

royal crow
#

Nightmare is the place you get warped when picking the data cubes in R8B1

#

i call it nightmare dimension

#

idk if it has another official name

grave quest
#

In jungle universe

#

is there any humanity

#

appart of daunt

#

durant

#

and his team?

royal crow
#

i dont think so

grave quest
#

so the traps?

#

the restricted area

#

is kinda SUS

royal crow
#

yeah i have the same question than you

#

its like we arent the first ones to go there

#

aside form Durant and stuff

grave quest
#

the true ending of gtfo : it was all a dream

royal crow
#

damn

#

it was all in our head

#

nothing is real

grave quest
#

this sounds crazy

#

but what if we tried

#

to coexist with the virus

#

maybe there is some way to talk to it

royal crow
#

talk to the virus?

#

i dont think its that smart

grave quest
#

I meann

royal crow
#

it just goes and infect things to keep living

grave quest
#

is the supreme life force

#

but wait

#

is a virus

#

that thing doesnt havel ife

royal crow
grave quest
#

is a parasite

royal crow
#

look at humans, we are the "supreme life force of the planet" and we do stupid shit all the time

grave quest
#

but more than a virus

#

seems the perfect bio weapon

royal crow
#

you are cooking something

grave quest
#

probably it was created by the humans like that

#

but the usual

#

things

royal crow
#

made by Aliens or other species

grave quest
#

but that species

#

if that species created that there would be 3 options : they are dead as a creators os that , they are inmune or they have DA CURE

grave quest
#

so if we take E=mc2 we got :

royal crow
#

so

grave quest
#

CALLE IS THE CREATOR

royal crow
#

the Aliens we find in GTFO universe in our planet are named the "collectors"

#

they are in exile from their species

grave quest
#

exile?

royal crow
#

they got kicked

grave quest
#

how

#

they were forced to escape

#

hold up

royal crow
#

shit, sorry for the ping Frosty

grave quest
#

wait

#

maybe the virus

#

is not perfect at all

#

if it were perfect it would be unbeteable

#

the human version can resist some shoots , while squidward version only one or two

#

so the bioweapon in its more perfect form would be inmortal tank

royal crow
#

the inmortal tank is an interesting situation

grave quest
#

maybe the inmorral tank is similar to the original virus , becfause the viruses have mutations

royal crow
#

we only see him once
and thats in R7E1

#

after we brake out from Warden control

grave quest
#

but the virus needs a host

#

if the host dies

#

it dies

#

the virus cant produce nutrients

royal crow
#

have you played Dead Space?

grave quest
#

no but I watched it on yt

royal crow
#

okay

#

so you know that the necromorphs are still alive even if you cut their limbs or they stop moving or you "kill them"

#

something similar with the sleepers

grave quest
#

yeah

#

but a virus needs nutrient

#

if it runs out of it

royal crow
#

the sleepers produces its own

#

with the help of the virus and the parasite

#

how?

#

idk im not a biologist

grave quest
#

so is not a virus nor a parasite

#

is a life form

royal crow
#

ONLY the virus

#

but it came in contact with the parasite and it managed to co-exist

grave quest
#

My point was that maybe the virus is like an extrra dimension thing it infects completely an universe and then it dissapears so that reality dissapears

royal crow
#

that would be cool

#

but nah

grave quest
#

I studied that

#

two species

royal crow
#

oh?

grave quest
#

that obtain mutual benefit

#

like a shark and a fish that I dont remember its name

#

the fish cleans the shark teeths , the fish gets nutrient from that

#

and protection from the shark

#

other example is the alga and fungus

royal crow
#

yeah it works like that

#

or similar

grave quest
#

My biology classes were worth it in a way

#

XD

royal crow
#

i never payed attention to biology

#

maybe i should have

grave quest
#

I think I will study a degree related to research

#

For cures

#

This idea doesn't came from gtfo

#

XD

royal crow
#

maybe you cure NAM-V

grave quest
#

Or create it 😈

#

Technically Inmortal tank solos >>>>> all gtfo universe

eternal talon
eternal talon
# grave quest where is warden¨s main frame?

we dont know. presumably it is embedded in biocom's systems, but we have only been to one such server room, and if that was the main hub, schaeffer would have had us just kill it rather than insert the memory stick

#

we do know the main server hub is in KDS-deep however

#

as in logs it was temporarily stored in hangar #4 before being moved when construction finished

eternal talon
royal crow
#

spooky place

eternal talon
# grave quest and his team?

depends. time runs slower there than our home dimension, but its entirely possible they could have attempted to populate there when they realized there was no going home. their total compliment was ~10-12 scientists and 4 KSOs.

#

i have no idea the genetic consequences of a gene pool that small though.

eternal talon
royal crow
eternal talon
royal crow
eternal talon
royal crow
#

who the fuck is North

eternal talon
# grave quest to coexist with the virus

you'd have better luck forming a symbiotic pairing with an uninfected parasite to become superhuman sort of like the husk cult in barotrauma. The virus means only death

#

actually.... that'd be sick as fuck....

husk cult but sleepers

eternal talon
eternal talon
# royal crow ||they are dead||

that was the the running theory for destination back in r6/r7. that it was the home planet of the aliens and they were wiped out, with survivors fleeing to the earth in the ship but got infected along the way and crashed

#

we still dont know what destination's all about or what it once was.

eternal talon
eternal talon
royal crow
#

we die at the end

eternal talon
#

(training is supposed to be in VR so mlem)

royal crow
#

mfs put a mother in training

eternal talon
#

(and it is the training expedition just with new enemies)

royal crow
#

LOL

eternal talon
royal crow
eternal talon
eternal talon
# royal crow idk im not a biologist

i dont think you need to be. them being immortal and being able to infinitely hibernate is already "matter cannot be created nor destroyed" levels of wierd.

eternal talon
eternal talon
#

i like shotguns.

#

s870 pog

royal crow
#

lol

#

that explains the scattergun

eternal talon
#

also the OP and founder of the #Maulmen post office MaulmenStamp

#

and the bonk bat cat

#

i've been here for too long, lol

broken oriole
#

where did henricksson go?

eternal talon
#

To the afterlife

celest pagoda
#

just witnessed the ending

#

there are so many things we never got answers to

#

so much cool shit we never got to see

#

this just sucks mannn

half lava
#

Ending was so underwhelming. 5 years for this dumpster fire?

fresh gyro
#

dam

#

🙏

half lava
#

I really hope they add more. This is weak

gilded vine
#

????????

#

Mid opinion tbh

half lava
#

thats okay. you dont need to agree with me.

winter oracle
#

It is so sad that we've lost henrikson in just A2(a1 for og team)

gilded vine
#

Bro gets like 3 sentences in the entire rundown

grave quest
#

Because

#

At least in our reality , I mean the real life

#

The parasite gets nutrient from the host

#

And the virus reproduces with the host cells

#

So if the host dies

#

The parasite and the virus can easily die

#

So , Actually☝️🤓 the scientific reason behind the nam-v is not valid

frail vessel
grave quest
#

Yeah

frail vessel
#

After that viruse adjusts not to kill host

grave quest
#

Yeah

frail vessel
grave quest
#

XD

grave quest
frail vessel
#

Ye ofc

#

But my point is

#

If virus is not familiar with the host, it will be aggressive, killing host in the process kinda fast, if its strong virus

#

You got the point

grave quest
#

But what about the parasite

frail vessel
#

Its how real life works at least

#

Not sure whats with virus in gtfo

grave quest
#

They talk about that the virus is a symbiosis between the parasite and the original virus

#

But I don't think it is a valid position

frail vessel
#

Well in the game it is, but not sure how real it could be IRL

grave quest
#

Let me explain the relation between the host and a virus and a host and a parasite is parasitism

#

The parasite

#

Gets nutrient from host

#

So if the host dies

#

Parasite diss

#

Dies

#

So the sleepers

#

Should die after a time

#

Maybe the nam-v is a regulator of population or it is used to destroy unicerses

#

Universes

#

Because when it kills everyone

#

Maybe it kills because of no nutrients

#

So 🤓☝️

rocky wraith
#

The cycle of most viruses are all lytic, requiring the destruction of the host cell in order to spread

grave quest
#

yeah

rocky wraith
#

It's the same thing here with NAM-V

grave quest
#

yeah but you forget

#

where is the host cells

#

if he dies

#

I mean they are not unlimited

#

based on that sleepers should die

rocky wraith
#

That's what the parasite is for

grave quest
#

a parasite works on the same way

rocky wraith
#

the parasite prolongs the hosts life cycle so that the virus can continuously replicate

grave quest
#

it neeads a host

#

to get nutrients from

rocky wraith
#

Yes, humans

grave quest
#

yeah

#

but we need food and water in order to get nutrients

#

a human itself cant produce nutrients

rocky wraith
#

which is why the sleepers consume the biomass of people

grave quest
#

but the biomass is not unlimited

#

in one time

rocky wraith
#

they also engage in autocannabilism

grave quest
#

better

rocky wraith
grave quest
#

sleepers killing each other

grave quest
rocky wraith
#

Which is when they will spread to new timelines

grave quest
#

but they need mwp

#

and they cant return to the og timeline

#

without that

rocky wraith
#

not really, they just need tethers that won't close

grave quest
#

yeah but

#

an isolated sleeper

#

in an isolated room

#

will die

#

of inanination

#

ok hol up

rocky wraith
#

eventually, but the catatonic state they enter allows them to survive for a very long time

grave quest
#

I got an interesting theory

rocky wraith
#

as seen in Destination

grave quest
#

what destination

#

what is it

rocky wraith
#

Have you not played R6, R7, or R8?

grave quest
#

yeah

#

3 of them

rocky wraith
#

Destination is the planet we get teleported to

grave quest
#

let me explain my theory

rocky wraith
#

The sleepers there have survived for millions of years

grave quest
#

I have a theory

#

When sleepers are "sleep" maybe they enter in a hibernation like the bears , bu this hibernation is very long

#

like million of years

#

so when they detect a fresh host

#

they hunt it

rocky wraith
#

Yeah, this is why they are called sleepers

grave quest
#

so get more nutrients so and then they got to " sleep"

#

So my point is

#

If somehow we were in a safe zone unrecheable for sleepers

#

and turn on speaker in order to wake them

#

they would die because they would run out of energy

#

proobably leading it to cannibalism

rocky wraith
#

habituation would prevent that

grave quest
#

if we based that in theory of evolution of Darwin

#

that takes a lot of generations an years

#

but it is also a virus

#

it mutates

#

but in order to mutate

#

it needs to expand

#

so

rocky wraith
#

You are lacking fundemental aspects on how viruses evolve

grave quest
#

probably

rocky wraith
#

They evolve FAST

#

like ridiculously fast

grave quest
#

they need reproduction in order to that

#

but yes

rocky wraith
grave quest
#

but the evolution

#

the mutation is uncontrolled

rocky wraith
#

one cell generates thousands to millions of viruses, natural selection means only the functioning and better viruses survive to infect the next cells. At a standard mutation rate of viruses combined with horizontal gene-sharing the virus can evolve within a single host to overcome the next problem

grave quest
#

yes

#

I understand you

rocky wraith
#

Combined with the aspects of habituation, your speaker strat wouldn't work

#

Repeated exposure would do less to awaken them

grave quest
#

so this leads me to other theory

#

if we use speakers in all the complex

#

the sleepers would be less sensible to sound

#

so maybe the alarms would not wake them

#

so they techically would be "pacified"

rocky wraith
#

Except that the speakers operate on a fixed frequency range that they would be able to tune out with time

grave quest
#

tune out ?

#

what does it mean

#

sorry I am not native speaker

#

of english

rocky wraith
#

So many sounds can be basically mentally turned off after listening to them for a long time. you still hear them audibly, but mentally you are processing everything else alongside that sound. So if you were to walk in a room with those habitualised sleepers, they would still pick up the frequency of your walking causing abnormal vibrations

grave quest
#

that is true probably

#

how the hell do you know that?

#

XD

rocky wraith
#

I have a bachelors in molecular biology

grave quest
#

bachelors

#

a degree?

rocky wraith
#

yeah

grave quest
#

I am studying the previous thing of a degree

#

In spain is called "bachillerato"

#

we have subjects and we het points and then we do an exam

#

then there is an average and we get a number

#

out of 14

#

with that number we can enter into univeristies

#

depending on the entrance mark , In my "bachillerato" I study appart from other subjects , biology but in a very superficial

#

the most deep we get in to viruses is the parasite relation with the host

#

and vaccines

#

no mor

rocky wraith
#

Pretty good

grave quest
#

Also we have studied lamarck , Darwin , Mendel

#

neutralism

#

symbiosis and species relations

rocky wraith
#

Mendels a good study on statistics

grave quest
#

I had to do a work about him

rocky wraith
#

They reckon he faked his pea plant numbers once he saw the patterns arising in his crops. Turns out he may have been too accurate with the exact ratios he was producing

#

But he regardlessly advanced gene theory massively

grave quest
#

I understand some of what you are writing but the fact that english is not my main language

#

and my b asic knowledge XD

rocky wraith
#

Your english is still great! Don't be disheartened! It just takes time

grave quest
#

thanks !!!

#

But here in spain

#

our education system in english is very bad

#

we study only grammar

rocky wraith
#

Well, practice is the important part, and I'm sure you'll get a lot of that here lol

grave quest
#

yes XD

#

one question

#

appart from gtfo is it possible that a symbiosis of parasite and virus exists?

rocky wraith
#

Yes!

#

The closest example I know of is of bacteria and parasites being co-dependent on each other.

grave quest
#

interesting

rocky wraith
#

I'll try and find the example

#

Wolbachia bacteria and Onchocerciasis

#

Basically a parasitic worm and a bacteria

#

The worms require the bacteria to reproduce, and the bacteria require the worms as a host

grave quest
#

but , the bacteria is behaving as a parasite , is not it?

rocky wraith
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but the important part is in the degree of parasitism

fresh gyro
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rocky wraith
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here, the bacteria is required for the parasite

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so the end result is that it looks more mutualistic

grave quest
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I understand , sorry but I gotta go. good conversation

rocky wraith
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ttyl!

lofty warren
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Is there already a full lore page? I’ve been out of the loop for a while and trying to get back in.

rocky wraith