twinsuns7 Posted December 1, 2019 Posted December 1, 2019 When Brade tested her weapon inside the delver maze I got the impression that she actually pressed a button in her cockpit to use it. This means that the Superiority have a way to broadcast cytonic hyperspace coordinates. Presumably the weaponised version was using a lot more power than the version that they use for the taynix, and it was a wide broadcast rather than a narrow one. I'm going to further presume that something about artificially putting the coordinates in the taynixs mind is what causes it to scream when they enter the nowhere. Further to this, I'm going to presume that the method of hyperspace was basically the same for the original crew of the Defiant, except that the engine crew was responsible for giving the taynix the coordinates rather than using a computer of some sort. I think that the Superiority learning how to "program" a taynix would have been what allowed them to win the second galactic war and that part of the reason a third war started was an attempt to stop the Superiority from using the technology, due to the danger it posed to the galaxy. If any of this is even remotely close, than I think that book 3 will see the population of Detritus being evacuated to ReDawn by Alanik on a captured Superiority battlecruiser using the taynix colony that Jorgen found.
MCrockett Posted June 4, 2020 Posted June 4, 2020 Wow! Cool theories. After having read the book twice, I find your theories to be very plausible. Although, I don't know why the taynix is screaming when they make a jump. Perhaps the superiority trained them to do that. The taynix are, after all, kinda like parrots. They repeat back what they hear, and I believe, they're the reason why Spensa could hear the conversations of the bridge crew on board the Weights and Measures prior to making a jump. The taynix was relaying everything it heard cytonically. But I guess that's just another theory.
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