Gifts of wandering ice

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World without men

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Mildegard
Mildegard
Houston Father, we've got a problem...


The "core" in female mind cannot be replaced, that's why female hosts cannot be used for prolonging one's immortality. Yes, you can assign core psi-profiles to women, but the resulting personality will be hybrid at best. Usually, the intruder will be just destroyed upon trying to take control of the body.


That's why all the immortals of the floating city empire were men, and that's why Nolan is in trouble now.


He genuinely enjoys Hope's touch, though, as she tries to console him. Kindness is something he is completely not used to.

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melaredblu
melaredblu
So...where did the baby come from exactly? Did they implant one of those embryos in her, then?

9th Jun 2022, 9:45 PM edit delete reply

Mildegard
Mildegard
Hope never got asked about that, so we may never know whether she did give birth to Love or just raised a baby from a cryocapsule.

10th Jun 2022, 11:29 AM edit delete reply

The Doodler
The Doodler
Random speculation: There's some resemblance between them, but that doesn't mean Hope chipped in for DNA, necessarily, since it could just be coincidence. With all the clone bodies and genetic engineering, all the ancient people we've seen seemed to have had a fairly small gene pool. I almost wonder if there was also a population bottleneck from natural disaster and/or war before the Atlantean society developed. (And I'd imagine their weird clone body immortals and eugenics narrowed the gene pool further for the post-ice-age world.)

12th Jun 2022, 8:43 PM edit delete reply

Mildegard
Mildegard
Atlanteans wouldn't settle for clones or inbred slaves for their hosts bodies. No, they wanted the best: diverse, naturally born and raised kids. So they made sure the variety was high. If book 4 happens, I'll explain that more.
Natural disasters (such as inflaming the supervolcano arc and destroying millions in tsunamis and climate change) sure create bottlenecks for populations. Naturally. But humans are what they are exactly because they had once refused to play by the rules of nature and started making their own rules instead. Even we, in our modern world, already have vast stores of sperm and eggs frozen, as well as tissue samples both from our own species and the species of plants and animals that we find worthy. I bet the Atlanteans' stash was even bigger.

13th Jun 2022, 12:10 PM edit delete reply

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