God I hope not.
Both. And if they knew where the City of Light was, why wander around a minefield and barren desert if they knew where a place of plenty was? How did that oh-so-convenient boat get there, and why so little protection against the sea monsters?They weren't looking. They knew where it was, and fed off the other people looking for it like parasites. They robbed from every one looking for the City of Lights.
Or do you mean the family Thelonius first met after he crashed?
I'm starting to expect some polar bears to wander by...
Well, I'm assuming all of the other people who have gone off looking for The City of Light must be somewhere. If it wasn't other people, then maybe she has bigger drones around that can do stuff for Holojo in the outside world.I was thinking of the Ray Bradbury story "There Will Come Soft Rains" (part of The Martian Chronicles) in which a house run by an AI keeps going with the normal daily routine after the family it served was vaporized when the city was nuked. There's a scene where the family dog staggers in and dies from radiation poisoning, and a robot cleaner comes in, removes the body, and cleans up. The computer keeps droning on about the next day's reminders for the family and starts reciting a poem about "there will come soft rains" (because the mom liked poetry and the computer read her a poem every night).How old were those crackers Murphy was eating?
Where was the body of the dude that shot himself (in the stomach?!)
The AI has robots or slaves that clean up, and weirdly sustain the historical integrity of that little bunker.
I imagine the robots look as humanoid as R2D2.
Although a shock collar around a human being and a slave workforce works fine too. Although how difficult would it be for Holojo to convince the Savages that she is a god? Can she only manipulate people or out and out surgically implant memories and feelings?
Who replaced the sandwiches?
Who the fuck dragged that warhead to the City of Lights?
As for who dragged the nuke in... robots? What about those scruffy people who were also looking for the City of Light - where did they go?
Well, I'm assuming all of the other people who have gone off looking for The City of Light must be somewhere.
If Holojo is the origin of the story about the city of Light, and not just a huxter that heard about this legend and decide to use it to her advantage, then she is personally resonable for the disemmination and maintinence of this "legend" and making sure that the right people come to her and the wrong people get blowed up in the mine field.
13. Holojo is a bishop, not the King (or Queen.). A cog in a much larger hierarchy of many AI governing millions of (hundreds of?) Burroughs across the planet. (Human beings are pawns.) Maybe she does what she's told, or maybe she's an upstart trying to climb a ladder through the silicone ceiling?
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