At the risk of retreating into a corner and gibbering, I'd like to raise a question about the ABC Warriors' personal timeline.
I was under the impression that around the time of The Black Hole the warriors had travelled back in time to the Terran Empire, prior to the name change to Termight, Torquemada etc. And so it remained throughout the Khronicles of Khaos and Hellbringer.
In Return To Mars we find out that – upon receiving Tubal Caine's signal – the warriors set their space/time co-ordinates to some time just after the Medusa consciousness awakens. This is a number of centuries after their first mission to tame Mars.
To my mind their return to Mars took them even further back into the "past", prior to the Terran Empire, Emperor Zallin and all that. That may just be my fanciful thinking, however.
Now, though, in two episodes of Fallout we're told that the Martian city Mekana has been voted the ugliest city in the galaxy. More specifically it's been said twice that it beat Mausoleum and Necropolis on Termight.
Is this a case of a poll taken in the far future that is being recalled in "the past" because their second Mars mission is the first time they've actually visited Mekana. Or are we to take it that elsewhere in the solar system Termite has already risen, which brings with it all the associated questions of Medusa's "alien" creations and the questionable purity of the Humpies.
As a rule I do love how non-linear the ABC Warriors is. Not only the bouncing around time, but the reminiscing (which has been a feature since Hammerstein's War Memories). I like to think that these robots are so old now that they need to regularly "de-frag" their memories with these stories from the past in order to shore up their personal reality and sense of self.
The double mention of Termight in the present tense has go0t me scratching my head.
And heck, in for a penny: while I'm here when in Deadlock's personal timeline do we all think he went to Termight and helped that biker gang after Nemesis ended? Between Khronicles of Khaos and Hellbringer?
I'll be in the corner gibbering now...
I was under the impression that around the time of The Black Hole the warriors had travelled back in time to the Terran Empire, prior to the name change to Termight, Torquemada etc. And so it remained throughout the Khronicles of Khaos and Hellbringer.
In Return To Mars we find out that – upon receiving Tubal Caine's signal – the warriors set their space/time co-ordinates to some time just after the Medusa consciousness awakens. This is a number of centuries after their first mission to tame Mars.
To my mind their return to Mars took them even further back into the "past", prior to the Terran Empire, Emperor Zallin and all that. That may just be my fanciful thinking, however.
Now, though, in two episodes of Fallout we're told that the Martian city Mekana has been voted the ugliest city in the galaxy. More specifically it's been said twice that it beat Mausoleum and Necropolis on Termight.
Is this a case of a poll taken in the far future that is being recalled in "the past" because their second Mars mission is the first time they've actually visited Mekana. Or are we to take it that elsewhere in the solar system Termite has already risen, which brings with it all the associated questions of Medusa's "alien" creations and the questionable purity of the Humpies.
As a rule I do love how non-linear the ABC Warriors is. Not only the bouncing around time, but the reminiscing (which has been a feature since Hammerstein's War Memories). I like to think that these robots are so old now that they need to regularly "de-frag" their memories with these stories from the past in order to shore up their personal reality and sense of self.
The double mention of Termight in the present tense has go0t me scratching my head.
And heck, in for a penny: while I'm here when in Deadlock's personal timeline do we all think he went to Termight and helped that biker gang after Nemesis ended? Between Khronicles of Khaos and Hellbringer?
I'll be in the corner gibbering now...