Oh. That makes sense.Tanasinn wrote:Alien plays a video game as a hobby, attempting to use altruistic means to win. His species is wiped out mistakenly under the belief they play with the lives of sapient aliens. He then meets an alien that actually does this before becoming just such a being himself.Ahriman238 wrote:I'm not sure I take your meaning, Esquire. Care to elaborate?Esquire wrote:It's very neat, ironically speaking.
I sort of saw it as his experiences preparing him for what happened later (a big problem with prequels, we know where he'll end up, so we think backwards to what he was and how he became what he is.) As a gamer, he was used to out of context ideas, so he coped better than anyone when the Capasins attacked. With Father, he was an elderly starship captain, but it was the gamer who caught Father's interest and made him keep the Ellimist around.
