Undine's nature

David Stockhoff · 19 Oct 2011, 13:40 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:40:56 -0400
Subject: (urth) Undine's nature
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On 10/19/2011 8:38 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> I suppose it is possible that Cilinia?s emulated personality in 
> Mainframe somehow stayed in communication with Scylla throughout the 
> centuries of travel. But for Scylla to somehow develop from Cilinia, 
> apart from being a flagrant contradiction of biology, also contradicts 
> the beans story which suggests that the sea monsters are of 
> extra-terrestrial origin (as does the existence of the Mother).
>

It occurs to me that creatures who enter the ecosystems of alien 
planets, especially as "beans," would do well to make use of the DNA of 
native plants and animals to survive and to compete with them. This 
would explain the apparent mixed human-nonhuman geno/phenotype as well 
as fitting the chaotic, cancer-like growth of the monsters.

And it would provide a corporeal counterpart to the mental/spiritual 
imitative cannibalism of inhumi and alzabos.

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