" Name: Kenneth
E-Mail: printers5@juno.com
Does anyone know if Reilly was a real person at one time? If Eve was created by Bennett, then how old would Reilly be? He would have had to live before the super computer was created in order for it to learn about him and use his image to interact with Julia.
Thursday, 16 October 2003 - 5:49 PM CDT
Name: Richard
E-Mail: richtc73@yahoo.com
Something was sending info back tothe stations so I just assume it is Eve. Before that would be Bennett and his party, and whatever othr teams were on the planetobserving the penal colonists. I doubt if thereis anything in orbit. I think Eve was misleadingthe ZED about that. reilly could have been an original observer and Bennet would have accessto his records to input when he build Eve. i think the odds are he died on the planetbefore Bennett got there. I don't think anyone has ever gone back to the stations aliveafter being sent there.
Thursday, 16 October 2003 - 7:43 PM CDT
Name: Beverly
E-Mail: e2fanbev@yahoo.com
Maybe there was an orbiting observation craft at one time. Eve turned out to be much more powerful than Bennett planned. I can see her killing everyone on the 'satellite' and absorbing their computer data in her effort to stop Bennett's virus from killing her. "
You have some good ideas there, guys.
I think Reilly was once a real person, too, and that he might have been one of the first observers of the initial penal colonists sent to the planet. I don't think he was ever in an orbiting platform, but that idea is a good one. I like it.
I theorized he and several others watched from a ground base established by the Council when the planet was first discovered. The hovercraft, like that the EA team were supposed to have with them, might have been a means of spying on the convicts. Also there were probably satellites in orbit for surveillance, too.
I also like the idea that he might never have gone back to the stations. Maybe he and his group of observers were rejected by the planet, too, just as the Bennett people would be years later, and they died. Even though Reilly seemed to have hit on the connection between young children and establishing a link with the planet, he killed a child when he tried to find out how the link was established. That could not have sat well with the planet.
That's why I don't think he was ever in a station in orbit. He had to have close access to the convicts, and later, their children.
Still, I like the idea. I just have to figure out how to make it work.
I always thought also, the Bennett team was rejected because they did not try to live on the surface as colonists would. They were always expecting to go back to the stations, so maybe they had recyclers for their water and enough consumables with them to stay five years. I don't think they ever tried to survive off the planet like the convicts and, later, the EA group had to do.
Bennett built Eve, probably back at the stations, and released her into G889 orbit to monitor them and relay information back to the stations.
But unknown to him, the Council was covering all the bases. They sent the ZEDs to the planet to monitor (and kill) convicts, while Bennett and Anson were studying the planet itself.
After dealing with Bennett's Venus class ship when Bennett tried to leave, Eve probably then appeared to the ZEDs as Reilly, and they might have been able to track her signal into orbit- they were heavily computerized- and it would be nothing to her to lie as Reilly and say he was in an observation satellite.
If you remember in "First Contact" the EA ship never received it's Level 6 clearance before making a run for it. I remember talking about this with my brother once and we thought maybe all ships meant for exploration or colonization had to have a clearance that ordinary freighters and pleasure craft between the stations didn't have to have. We thought this might explain why Bennett and Anson were so sure Devon must know why the planet was rejecting them. Maybe Level 6 clearances gave the departing crews addtional information about the places they were going. In this case, a warning about the planet's history of rejecting humans.
Since the Council seems to have had no intention of letting Adair's ships leave, they never had the need to tell her anything more than what she wanted to hear.
If they had been able to force her into accepting Council partnership in her project, think of how differently the matter would have turned out!
Posted by scifi2/terrian_king
at 4:56 PM CDT
Updated: Saturday, 18 October 2003 5:01 PM CDT
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