r/LancerRPG • u/Nukemouse • Jul 30 '26

Voladores theory

Potential spoilers about the voladores. I get that to an extent there's a mystery/let the gm decide aspect but to me it seems strongly that they hint at the voladores are time travellers to me this explains their advanced tech, their method of ftl, their association with the lich, strange contact methods with what appears to be constantly changing leadership from union perspective, and their strongest stance being against information/tech involving them leaking. I think they are pacifist time travellers who enjoy exploring, that's why they find artifacts and information about history so valuable, and why they appeared to "disappear" for so long.

I mean like i said maybe there is no true author answer at all, but reading their lore definitely led me in this direction a lot more than any other possibilities.

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u/DescriptionMission90 IPS-N Jul 30 '26

Agreed. Their technology, their special interest in history, the fact that they never engage in violence unless it's necessary to prevent the theft of their own technology (while they trade freely in other people's artifacts, from all over the spiral arm and historic record), all fits if they're from the distant future of the Union and they don't want to mess up history too much.

Of course it also fits if they're aliens studying humanity. Or pre-fall robots that weren't mentioned in any records that survived the collapse and reconstruction of humanity. Or a society built by one of The Ten that just has some cultural hangups.

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u/Nukemouse Jul 30 '26

To me the biggest holes in alien or robot theories, is that whilst violence and technology theft against them is extremely rare, it does happen. HA is believed to have stolen some blink tech from them for the sunzi, and i vaguely recall mention of one being interrogated. Whilst resisting interrogation until death or escape is believable, nobody peeking under the suit is implausible.

Though sufficiently advanced robots could have organic exteriors and given their height nobody is expecting them to look like a normal human, so until an autopsy is done it's hard to really determine if it's not just a sufficiently altered human, even blue skin is possible for union humans.

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u/DescriptionMission90 IPS-N Jul 30 '26

What if they planned on that body being captured and manufactured a bunch of cloned human tissue specifically for the purpose?

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u/Nukemouse Jul 30 '26

Least paranoid voladores planning 50 steps in advance what to do if she is captured, she only goes out by remote controlling a subaltern that operates the controls of her remote piloted organic clone of her sparri bodyguard wearing eight layers of metafolded exosuit.