Well, there's a fairly complete walkthrough of the campaign on the FreeSpace wiki.
My interpretation is that it's an alternate universe version of his own Eriana. History ran parallel, she survived on the Sanctuary, and now - as the Vishnans promised - they're reunited. But that's just what I think. What's your take on it?
Could you list off the bugs and blips? We want to fix 'em for the Director's Cut.
My interpretation is that it's an alternate universe version of his own Eriana.
If it would be the same Eriana, that would mean that Bei is either dating a child, or was merried to a woman twice his own age.
My interpretation is that it's an alternate universe version of his own Eriana.
I always assumed Eriana and the younger Bei were both Lost Generation, and grew up away from Sol, or at least were born far away from Earth. Maybe if the Sancturary was evacing people as they fled, but...
If the Eriana on Sanctuary is a "dark universe" equivalent of his dead wife (and not just the same name), she must have been the child of some of the awake crew of the Sanctuary, born while they hid inside the nebula.
If the Eriana on Sanctuary is a "dark universe" equivalent of his dead wife (and not just the same name), she must have been the child of some of the awake crew of the Sanctuary, born while they hid inside the nebula.
That sounds reasonable to me. I believe that's what Aardwolf is saying as well.
Good luck getting straight answers out of Darius, though.
Of course this leaves the question of what happened to alternate-Sam and his family...maybe the elder Bei died in the fleet, so para-Sam was never born?SAM HAS AN EVIL TWIN
as the Vishnans promised - they're reunited.
But it still is not the same Eriana, even if she looks like her. If you could swap the memories of the other one into her, it still wouldn't be her. Just a clone, like a copy with the same body and genetics, memories and personality, but not the same awareness (consciousness). Like if I had a clone of myself and my memory was copied to him, we would still have a separate consciousness and confined to our own bodies. I know in the alternate universe version, Eriana doesn't have the same memories, but I was making an example that even if she did, it wouldn't be her but more like a copy who thinks she is the same person.
So if I was in Samuel's shoes and encountered a parallel universe version of someone I loved, it wouldn't feel the same since I know it isn't the same person, even if she was identical both physically and personality-wise. Just seems like the same person, thinks she is the same person, and acts the same.
And this is sort of the reason behind my alternate interpretation above (that the Vishnans created alive-Eriana as a deux ex Vishnans)...I feel that it would have been cruel for the Vishnans to bring back someone who was the same person as dead-Eriana, but with a wholly different set of memories. There's something incredibly creepy about meeting a woman who died and whom you were married to, but in a parallel universe, is neither dead nor your wife (yet). I'd rather meet someone who reminded me of my dead wife, and perhaps even brought back memories, but someone who I knew wasn't the same person.
All that is real, is real. You draw a false dichotomy between the material and the spiritual.
Or at least that's the Vasudans' take on it. :p
Or perhaps the GTVA wins, slaughters everyone on Earth and Humans become the replacement for the Shivans. :drevil:
No I don't really think that will be the case, but I have to say it does sound interresting...
...instead of Bei's parents being in Capella or whatever system they lived in, they returned to Earth as it was being destroyed and stayed on that side of the node. Then the young parents boarded the Sanctuary and gave birth to Eriana later on.
Before we go any further, Eriana was Sam's wife. :P
I was going to say the same thing. 'Terrene' isn't exactly wrong in this sense, but it is rather like using a sentence like "I would as lief drive the Haywain to town as the Phaeton" in the 21st century. It made me think of old science fiction novels such as something by E.E. Doc Smith when I saw it here. :)
As long as they had a soul and are not deleted from existance, we can feel a little better about it, and this campaign isn't supposed to be pure sci-fi and physical, I feel.
It was a sad part of the campaign when you combine the sad scenes with the sad music of BPtheme3.
His mom's last name looks Chinese, though in that era, they wouldn't be called Chinese, probably.
You don't have to be religious to believe in something non-physical. So many people get religion confused with belief and spirituality. Religion is just the practices and rituals and belief the story happened exactly the way it is said to, but not a belief in something after death. But also, some people can believe in a story of a religion and not be religious.
What's really inconcievable is that it would be exactly the same Eriana with the exact same genes, with the exact same education (read, "brain states"), that is, the same person.It wasn't even mentioned wether she looks similar to Eriana or not.
Here's a question: Is every proton the exact same? I know there are many more than just one and that makes them seperate and different in that sense, but I'm wondering, are they all the same in every other way?
It's not the same person if they have seperate consciousnesses. Am I the same as my clone with my memories installed into it? Yes and no. My consciousness won't jump to its body when my body dies. If I was only phsyical, then I wonder why my awareness would have to be born in the body I'm in now instead of some other body. What would determine what body and brain my consciousness would be born into? Maybe I'm more than just a body then.
Here's a question: Is every proton the exact same? I know there are many more than just one and that makes them seperate and different in that sense, but I'm wondering, are they all the same in every other way?