Resurrection discussion: full DLC spoilers through the last mission

[gmuir77]

I've been pacing myself through the DLC and finally did the last mission. Storywise, I'm still parsing through what the Cylons are doing. Not sure if it will make sense once we know all the details. Be curious to know what the "plan" was with these IL units. There doesn't seem to be a lot of coherence to the way it's playing out.

I was disappointed that the random missions are so heavily weighted towards low spawns. I see more fleets of the 2000 to 4000 range. I can only think of one time I saw a 7000 fleet. The heaviest are usually 6000.

I don't like the bridge characters as much. Nash seems unimaginative. The junior officer guy comes across like an immature prat. The marine commander is a bit too religious derpy. I strongly disagreed with the blowing up of the Galleon. It would have made more sense to drop a ton of ships around it and perform a proper investigation.

Overall, I got my money's worth out of the DLC but didn't enjoy it as much as the others.

[Shermos]

The decision to blow up the Galleon doesn't make much sense to me either. However, if they did do a proper investigation, they would very possibly learn the location of Kobol which would break with the canon of the show. It would make for an interesting alternate continuity, but that's apparently not what the devs are going for.

Nash is ok imo, but I agree with you about the XO. I can only put it down to Colonial fleet being short of highly experienced officers at this point of the war.

Sin and Sacrifice is still my favourite of the DLC released so far. I liked how Cain was evolving as a person especially. It's unfortunate she's probably dead.

[Dux_Britanniarum]

Clothos and Lachesis are the names of two of the three 'fates' in Greek mythology.

The third fate is called Atropos. Death.

Clothos role in mythology was to 'spin the thread of human life'. Clothos in Deadlock has certainly directed the course of the events in campaign.

Latchesis ' role in mythology was to 'measure the thread of human life'. That is to say make important decsions about life. When someone was born, when they'd die, how long it lasts etc. Latchesis in deadlock determined the length of the first ceasefire, and cost of that ceasefire. It also determined that the nature of the war had to change.

Atropos' role in mythology was to chose the manner of death after Clothos spun the life, and Latchesis planned how long it would last.

So when you ask what the plan of the three IL models is. I'd guess they're following the fates and building to Atropos figuring out how the Cylon's should destroy the Colonials. This might actual be linked to the Armistice, when the Cylon's realise they can't win while stuck in a 'deadlock'.

I guess we'll find out though.

[mad]

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[gmuir77]

Originally posted by yugydoom:

So when you ask what the plan of the three IL models is. I'd guess they're following the fates and building to Atropos figuring out how the Cylon's should destroy the Colonials. This might actual be linked to the Armistice, when the Cylon's realise they can't win while stuck in a 'deadlock'.

I guess we'll find out though.

Seems like how it will play out. But it makes me wonder what the logic was on the side of the toasters. So there's the baseline units built by man that rebelled. They take over their own development. I'm assuming there are upgrades made to the standard centurions. It's not clear if they can upgrade their own minds after they've been built. With what Clothos said, it sounds like a) they don't have any kind of consciousness transfer even for mechanical minds b) backups are not the same consciousness c) Cylons have an aversion of running minds in parallel so only one consciousness active at a time, backups activated only upon death.

Being religious, maybe they decided to create a situation with where God would be able to show a sign. The three IL units are meant to activate in sequence and interact with the humans and, by the way events unfold, make God's will manifest? Like an overly complicated augury? Augurers would either view the flights of birds or the entrails of animals to divine the future. Maybe the Cylons are divining God's will by viewing the entrails of mankind?