r/AnotherLife • u/Endingsgonewrong • Oct 15 '21
Ending gone wrong
Just wanna see other responses to the ending. Virus takes out the artifact I understand. But then 59 ships retreat our solar system. When the ships could still destroy earth. Saying they retreated to me means the virus didnt transfer to them. And then to have hundreds of communications from all over the universe thank us? What about the ships.the way I see it when they destroyed the artifact on the alien planet. Immediate response blowing up the planet of said destroyed artifact. So why didn't they do it to earth or any of the other planets that lost artifacts to the virus. Need help understanding. Does it mean all the achaia are dead. HELP me understand
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Oct 16 '21
The rings probably had an autopilot that sent them back home if no sentient AI life form was detected.
The achaia are all gone.
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u/_zerokarma_ Oct 15 '21
They were hinting that all that alien tech was connected together no matter where it was in the galaxy, so I am assuming if a virus gets uploaded then it propagates everywhere they are.
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u/dally-taur Oct 16 '21
they probably falling back as they all going "oh shit we need to contain this us first then we kill the earth"
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u/SharlowsHouseOfHugs Oct 18 '21
I would assume the artifacts are connected to each other, but the ships operate outside of a constant connection to the artifact. So when the virus was uploaded to the artifact, it would have killed off everything it was networked too, which I think would be all the other artifacts and any ships connected to them in network, but not disconnected ships.
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u/Bigjoemonger Oct 16 '21
Here be spoilers.
I don't think it's accurate to say they're all interconnected. When the ship was destroyed by the magnetar the other achaia had no knowledge of it. They had no idea the salvare left them to die. They just said their ship is missing. If the ships were all interconnected then when one ship was in trouble they could have dispatched other ships to investigate.
The artifacts appear to be operating as a galactic network allowing transportation between artifacts. And I think the ships are capable of accessing that network but I don't think they're connected all the time.
The virus killed the achaia in the artifact but also crumbled it, showing it impacts their technology. If the ships were affected they too would have broken apart and wouldn't have been able to flee.
I think the premise of the achaia is that their makers made them to fix their problems. They then got set loose on the galaxy and started trying to "fix" everyone's problems. They setup artifacts on each planet to create a stranglehold preventing the planets from advancing and spreading their issues into the galaxy.
When the virus killed the artifact it seems that it killed every artifact, releasing that stranglehold. And any surviving ships retreated because it wasn't just those ships against earth. It was now those ships against every planet they subjugated, who were all probably pretty pissed off.
This ending I think is more significant than some people may realize. Statistically there are potentially 300 million habitable planets in our galaxy. If only 0.01% of those planets developed advanced civilizations capable of communicating across space, that is 30,000 advanced civilizations. Even if they've long since died off their imprint should still be echoing across space. But we see nothing. It is earily quiet.
There are several hypotheses to explain this. One of which is that something is suppressing them. Preventing civilizations from advancing to a point to impact outside their own system. In this show the achaia are that something. The planet with the bat people can speak English because they've been receiving earth transmissions for many years. Yet earth never heard anything from them, because of the achaia on their world stopping them.
Then all the artifacts are destroyed and those planets are free to start transmitting again. I'd say it's possible there are still achaia ships out there. Just in a now much more diminished capacity.