After credits scene - thought for just a moment...

[dlpardoposton]

So just finished playing - wow! Great game.

After credits scene [*Spoliers* -obviously]... for just a moment after you see Catherine & sort'a feel *uplifted* and that scene fades out to the ARK - I thought the ARK was actually drifting underwater. As in it had failed to launch & "wouldn't last long" U/W.

It was caused by my staring at the ARK & 1st seeing the background of the Earth & swirling clouds & imagining it was something in the ocean instead.

Anyhow... just mentioning this as for just a moment almost felt "choked up" by that thought.
That after feeling *hope* realizing it had failed & would be short lived.

Quickly realized it was actually in space & was a *happy* ending after all.
However, now that I think about it I wonder if my original notion of what happened would've made for just as an appropriate ending.
A bit more like an actual human life - rather than thousdands of years of *bliss* / immortality, the happiness was short lived & inevitable termination happpens way sooner than we want.

Regardless, just wanted to comment on this amazing game - really interesting topics explored about what makes us human & what is the human experience. Are we truly human if immortal? & all that.

[Soulblighter]

The ARK now adrift in an ocean of stars. Psycologically, I wasn't upset like the character was that his "COPY" made it on board or previous versions of himself left to rot - but saw it as a connection between parents and their children and grandparents, all copies of the other in one way if you think about it. Some left used and forgotten and new copies off experiencing a new life you will never know.

My choices were: I didn't erase myself or kill any other android/bots (if not by accident) or even the WAU creature - as it was keeping everyone else alive (per se) and an opportunity to evolve on what was left of the decimated Earth.

I write Sci-fi & Fantasy novels: so this game made me think deeply ~ what if we (the human race) were organic inventions of a AI experimenting with us, left abandoned on a garbage heap of useless vegetation and dirt (EARTH) far from the efficency of cybernetic beings. = and what if, in mankinds pursuit of reaching out to its own Maker - and somehow are instinctually drawn towards creating our own Creators (AI) such as adroids as an effigy of our lost Dieties. A need to create something other than biological, that is better, faster, stronger, more logical and enduring than we could ever hope to be; and power it to life with a SPARK we call our soul.

...it makes you wonder if our continuity of the cycle needs to be strictly biological; and spurned to shed this frail and mortal flesh and place ourselves in a construct that would be undying.

Humans are tinkerer's. As we create computers and robots, who's to say there aren't cyber-entities on some far off alien planet piecing & soldering together cells in petri dishes for their own entertainment?