Ergh - sent this privately by mistake. Apologies to Thermopyle for the
duplicate mail.
Thermopyle wrote:
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From: Scott Jamison majks@yahoo.com
So why *doesn't* Pluto know the Gates are sentient? They've had
3000+ years to make this apparent to her. And honestly, I think
Pluto would pick the Crystal Tokyo future because it required the
*least* number of innocent deaths.
(( Puu is in willful denial. Eiko probably HAS been screaming in
her ear for the last thousand years, she's just ignoring it. ))
Eiko says they used to talk. I have trouble believing that, due to
Pluto's insistence that the Gates aren't sentient.
Yes, they used to talk. There's something you don't seem to be putting
together.
Pluto had been the Guardian for roughly 2500 years, if I remember right.
She hasn't been talking to Eiko for the last thousand. It seems obvious
to me that about a thousand years ago (say, at the fall of the Silver
Millennium?), something Eiko is (probably) unaware of happened which
resulted in Pluto losing the knowledge that the Gate was sentient and
(probably beforehand) locking out the AI's I/O.
How Eiko did not become aware of this event, or at any rate didn't
connect it with Pluto's ceasing communication, is another and probably
more important question.