Silk as Typhon

Chris · 08 Mar 2003, 19:02 · from urth-v0303.mbox · original

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From: "Chris" <rasputin_ at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Silk as Typhon
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:02:49 +0000
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Roy sensibly objected:
>mother) (LS3:9). If that woman contributed biological material to the=20
>embryo
>that became Silk, then it is not possible for the embryo to have been a
>clone of Typhon, or of anyone else.

This is a good point, and I think it points back to an older theory that=20
Silk was an embryo that was intended to be a future body for Typhon/Pas=20
after the landing. We already know that Typhon is not fastidious about the=20
genetics of the body his mind inhabits - if anything he considers it an=20
accoutrement or tool, and would want as "souped up" a version as he could=20
get. Whether this was accomplished through eugenics, or some kind of geneti=
c=20
manipulation of his biological parents is impossible to say.

I believe, as well, that this is not an insoluble problem in the grand=20
scheme of Don's thesis. Thematically, it amounts to the same thing- Silk wa=
s=20
intended to be Typhon, in either case.

Of course, there is always the possibility that the people Silk saw were=20
actually *Typhon's* parents, but it seems highly unlikely that Typhon's=20
parents would have been alive to be scanned into the mainframe; and if they=20
had, they would have had a place in Pas' pantheon.

Chris

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