[Buckshee Rounds]

Spoiler:

"You are a made thing" This line has always had me pondering. Does it refer to Laporte's ultimate purpose? Or is she literally a Shivan baby?

[-Sara-]

Spoiler:

"You are a made thing" This line has always had me pondering. Does it refer to Laporte's ultimate purpose? Or is she literally a Shivan baby?

Spoiler:

I assume she was conditioned with her psychosis by divine (Shivan or Vishan) intervention. An entirely different option is that Ken is the last of the Brahmas who is responsible for both Bei and Laporte, believing it'll even the terrans out and lead to a greater destiny.

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[NGTM-1R]

I think you may have it backwards regarding mental state being a result of contact.

Consider the mental state of our known...let's call them contacts. Samuel Bei was known for his calm and certainty, and he certainly projected that in his appearances in AoA. This would also describe the Vishies. This state existed in Bei before his first contacts, which would seem to put the lie to your ordering of things.

Now consider whose mental state Naomi's appears to most closely match.

[General Battuta]

Bei talked about hearing their voices for his entire life, though (iirc) and not realizing it

[NGTM-1R]

Bei talked about hearing their voices for his entire life, though (iirc) and not realizing it

Curses, a good theory foiled.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, he didn't realise it until the Temeraire's battlegroup was rescued by the Sacred Keeper.

And then he executed Order 66went to fulfil his destiny and averted a catastrophe.

[-Norbert-]

In that regard, even more would point toward Ken being Shivan. From what we saw of them I think of the Vishnans as subtle and only intervening when necessary and with minimal force, thus their influence over Bei was completely "invisible" so to say to others. Noone noticed anything odd about him.

But the Shivans, usually prefering a more direct approach, messed up a little bit in their contact with Laporte and thus she was diagnosed with a mental condition.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

...and thus she was diagnosed with a mental condition.

Where did you get this from? "Fugue" flight is not a mental condition. It's a post-battle trauma symptom.

[MatthTheGeek]

Laporte : "I had a psychotic episode in my early teens. Hallucinations, imagined companions, schizophrenic symptoms."
From : Ken, Mission 04, WiH.

[Pred the Penguin]

Symptoms only, but I see your point.

[MatthTheGeek]

I think it was mentioned that it was officially diagnosed at some point. Don't remember where that was mentioned though.

[Dilmah G]

Would be unlikely, such a diagnosis would disqualify her for Officer Aircrew entry. That's under current laws, though.

[-Sara-]

I guess it comes down to if in the 24th century psychotic symptoms can be ordinarily be entirely repressed without any ill side-effects under normal circumstances.

[MatthTheGeek]

Would be unlikely, such a diagnosis would disqualify her for Officer Aircrew entry. That's under current laws, though.

"Conveniently, it remitted in time for you to enter the Academy."
Lieutenant Vicmouth, same mission, the line just following the one I quoted earlier. Sounds like some of you didn't pay enough attention at that dialogue, amirite.

[Dilmah G]

Hey man, if you'd played those missions in as many different stages as I had, it'd become a big blur for you too.

[MatthTheGeek]

Just crack-open the mission file. Do you think I remember all the dialog by heart too ?

[Dilmah G]

Well I couldn't recall that anything of that effect was said (though now you've jogged my memory and I do), so I had no reason to. Anyway!

[-Sara-]

But all work and no play makes Dilmah a dull boy. I think he has to open missions, both textual and ingame often enough already.

[Jellyfish]

Is it logic to send someone with a spotty psychological record to the heat of combat?
I think if Laporte were to apply to a modern air force, they'd laugh in her face.

[Commander Zane]

Never know, they could let her in anyway. I've seen some people with psychs that really made me question just how far processing personnel bend their own rules.