Is Agia a Robot?

David Stockhoff · 18 Jun 2010, 18:57 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:57:57 -0400
Subject: (urth) Is Agia a Robot?
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Well, that sounds like a very feminine revenge plot, or like a woman who 
actually feels something for Hethor. I don't think so. I see Agia as 
having been homicidal and power-hungry for a long time, regardless of 
her physical makeup.

Here's a thought---would Agia-as-robot have any such human feelings? 
Does she feel love for Agilus? The halo scene suggests so. I don't know 
whether the gnostic twincestuous god-rulers scheme requires love or even 
allows it, or if it matters. (It does in the pieces of gnosticism that 
survived as alchemy.) I ask because it's possible that the love between 
A/A is real and that it is actually holy in the God-is-love sense---a 
bit of the Outsider leaking in.

Another thought: did Agia land, escape, and find Agilus? Or is Urth and 
Agilus her home base? Would it be possible, given what we know of time 
travel in the Urth universe, for a twin pair to stay close in age if 
they want to, when one is a star sailor and would stay young? Probably, 
since she can reverse direction and return to him.

If Agia is a robot, that problem goes away, as she can always look like 
Agilus at any age. But she can still sign onto ships that take her back 
to when Agilus is alive---she could be physically younger than Agilus, 
or could spend decades with Agilus in the process of living hundreds of 
years to his thirty or so.

Stop me if I'm starting to sound as crazy as the rest of you.

Ryan Dunn wrote:
> Or did Agilus have something to say about changing her from submissive sex kitten to dominatrix with some manly qualities?
>
> And perhaps (or instead) this was motivated by getting back at Hethor, mastering him, as it were?
>
> ...ryan
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>
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 1:51 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
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>> Is Agia an assassin robot straight out of Dune who played sex doll for Hethor because she wanted his power and money but feared his monsters, or is she a sex doll who turned skillfully murderous?
>>     
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